Food Colour and Quality Laboratory, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain.
Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Experimental Sciences, Marine International Campus of Excellence and REMSMA, University of Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain.
Mar Drugs. 2023 Jun 1;21(6):340. doi: 10.3390/md21060340.
Carotenoids are a large group of health-promoting compounds used in many industrial sectors, such as foods, feeds, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, nutraceuticals, and colorants. Considering the global population growth and environmental challenges, it is essential to find new sustainable sources of carotenoids beyond those obtained from agriculture. This review focuses on the potential use of marine archaea, bacteria, algae, and yeast as biological factories of carotenoids. A wide variety of carotenoids, including novel ones, were identified in these organisms. The role of carotenoids in marine organisms and their potential health-promoting actions have also been discussed. Marine organisms have a great capacity to synthesize a wide variety of carotenoids, which can be obtained in a renewable manner without depleting natural resources. Thus, it is concluded that they represent a key sustainable source of carotenoids that could help Europe achieve its Green Deal and Recovery Plan. Additionally, the lack of standards, clinical studies, and toxicity analysis reduces the use of marine organisms as sources of traditional and novel carotenoids. Therefore, further research on the processing of marine organisms, the biosynthetic pathways, extraction procedures, and examination of their content is needed to increase carotenoid productivity, document their safety, and decrease costs for their industrial implementation.
类胡萝卜素是一组促进健康的化合物,广泛应用于食品、饲料、制药、化妆品、营养保健品和着色剂等多个工业领域。考虑到全球人口增长和环境挑战,除了从农业中获取类胡萝卜素之外,寻找新的可持续类胡萝卜素来源至关重要。本综述重点介绍了海洋古菌、细菌、藻类和酵母作为类胡萝卜素生物工厂的潜在用途。这些生物体内已鉴定出多种类胡萝卜素,包括新型类胡萝卜素。本文还讨论了类胡萝卜素在海洋生物中的作用及其潜在的促进健康的作用。海洋生物具有合成多种类胡萝卜素的巨大能力,可以以可再生的方式获得这些类胡萝卜素,而不会耗尽自然资源。因此,可以得出结论,海洋生物是一种可持续的类胡萝卜素关键来源,可以帮助欧洲实现其绿色协议和复苏计划。此外,由于缺乏标准、临床研究和毒性分析,限制了海洋生物作为传统和新型类胡萝卜素来源的应用。因此,需要进一步研究海洋生物的加工、生物合成途径、提取程序以及对其含量的检查,以提高类胡萝卜素的生产力,证明其安全性,并降低其工业实施的成本。
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