Sathasivam Ramaraj, Radhakrishnan Ramalingam, Hashem Abeer, Abd Allah Elsayed F
Department of Biotechnology, Sangmyung University, Seoul 03016, Republic of Korea.
Department of Microbiology, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, Coimbatore, 641021, Tamilnadu, India.
Saudi J Biol Sci. 2019 May;26(4):709-722. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2017.11.003. Epub 2017 Nov 3.
Microalgae are one of the important components in food chains of aquatic ecosystems and have been used for human consumption as food and as medicines. The wide diversity of compounds synthesized from different metabolic pathways of fresh and marine water algae provide promising sources of fatty acids, steroids, carotenoids, polysaccharides, lectins, mycosporine-like amino acids, halogenated compounds, polyketides, toxins, agar agar, alginic acid and carrageenan. This review discusses microalgae used to produce biological substances and its economic importance in food science, the pharmaceutical industry and public health.
微藻是水生生态系统食物链的重要组成部分之一,已被用作人类食用的食物和药物。淡水和海水藻类不同代谢途径合成的化合物种类繁多,为脂肪酸、类固醇、类胡萝卜素、多糖、凝集素、类菌孢素氨基酸、卤代化合物、聚酮化合物、毒素、琼脂、海藻酸和卡拉胶提供了有前景的来源。本文综述了用于生产生物物质的微藻及其在食品科学、制药工业和公共卫生方面的经济重要性。