Ahmed Abdul Bakrudeen Ali, Adel Mohaddeseh, Karimi Pegah, Peidayesh Mahvash
Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Adv Food Nutr Res. 2014;73:197-220. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800268-1.00010-X.
Marine carbohydrates are most important organic molecules made by photosynthetic organisms. It is very essential for humankind: the role in being an energy source for the organism and they are considered as an important dissolve organic compound (DOC) in marine environment's sediments. Carbohydrates found in different marine environments in different concentrations. Polysaccharides of carbohydrates play an important role in various fields such as pharmaceutical, food production, cosmeceutical, and so on. Marine organisms are good resources of nutrients, and they are rich carbohydrate in sulfated polysaccharide. Seaweeds (marine microalgae) are used in different pharmaceutical industries, especially in pharmaceutical compound production. Seaweeds have a significant amount of sulfated polysaccharides, which are used in cosmeceutical industry, besides based on the biological applications. Since then, traditional people, cosmetics products, and pharmaceutical applications consider many types of seaweed as an important organism used in food process. Sulfated polysaccharides containing seaweed have potential uses in the blood coagulation system, antiviral activity, antioxidant activity, anticancer activity, immunomodulating activity, antilipidepic activity, etc. Some species of marine organisms are rich in polysaccharides such as sulfated galactans. Various polysaccharides such as agar and alginates, which are extracted from marine organisms, have several applications in food production and cosmeceutical industries. Due to their high health benefits, compound-derived extracts of marine polysaccharides have various applications and traditional people were using them since long time ago. In the future, much attention is supposed to be paid to unraveling the structural, compositional, and sequential properties of marine carbohydrate as well.
海洋碳水化合物是光合生物制造的最重要的有机分子。它对人类至关重要：作为生物体的能量来源发挥作用，并且被视为海洋环境沉积物中一种重要的溶解有机化合物（DOC）。在不同的海洋环境中发现的碳水化合物浓度各异。碳水化合物的多糖在制药、食品生产、药妆等各个领域发挥着重要作用。海洋生物是营养物质的良好来源，它们富含硫酸化多糖形式的碳水化合物。海藻（海洋微藻）被用于不同的制药行业，尤其是在药物化合物生产中。海藻含有大量的硫酸化多糖，除了基于生物学应用外，还被用于药妆行业。从那时起，传统医学、化妆品和制药应用都将多种海藻视为食品加工中使用的重要生物。含硫酸化多糖的海藻在血液凝固系统、抗病毒活性、抗氧化活性、抗癌活性、免疫调节活性、抗血脂活性等方面具有潜在用途。一些海洋生物物种富含多糖，如硫酸化半乳聚糖。从海洋生物中提取的各种多糖，如琼脂和藻酸盐，在食品生产和药妆行业有多种应用。由于其对健康的诸多益处，海洋多糖衍生的提取物有各种应用，并且传统医学长期以来一直在使用它们。未来，还应高度重视揭示海洋碳水化合物的结构、组成和序列特性。
