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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gurpilhares, Daniela de Borba
• Cinelli, Leonardo Paes
• Simas, Naomi Kato
• Pessoa Jr, Adalberto
• Sette, Lara Durães

Titel

Marine prebiotics: Polysaccharides and oligosaccharides obtained by using microbial enzymes

Ist Teil von

• Food chemistry, 2019-05, Vol.280, p.175-186

Ort / Verlag

England: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Marine algae are valuable sources of bioactive poly- and oligosaccharides.•Extraction methods can be correlated to biological activity of marine prebiotics.•The biological activity of marine prebiotics can be unravel by structural analysis.•Microbial enzymes could be used in marine prebiotics obtainment.•Microbial enzymes could be used in marine prebiotics modification. Utilization of marine algae has increased considerably over the past decades, since biodiversity within brown, red and green marine algae offers possibilities of finding a variety of bioactive compounds. Marine algae are rich sources of dietary fibre. The remarkable positive effects of seaweed dietary fibre on human body are related to their prebiotic activity over the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) microbiota. However, dietary modulation of microorganisms present in GIT can be influenced by different factors such as type and source of the dietary fibre, their molecular weight, type of extraction and purification methods employed, composition and modification of polysaccharide and oligosaccharide. This review will demonstrate evidence that polysaccharides and oligosaccharides from marine algae can be used as prebiotics, emphasizing their use in human health, their application as food and other possible applications. Furthermore, an important approach of microbial enzymes employment during extraction, modification or production of those prebiotics is highlighted.