Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences (SJLS)
Volume-2 | Issue-08 | 269-283
Review Article
Acknowledging Sulfated Polysaccharides from Marine Macroalgae MultiFunctional Properties
Farid Che Ghazali, Abdul Qudus B Aroyehun, Shariza Abdul Razak
Published : Nov. 30, 2017
Abstract
Marine macroalgae produce a great variety of biological active compounds
which cannot be scientifically characterized with in other organism’s biomass. These
marine habitats have been scientifically reported for modern medicinal uses although
rheteoratically associated to coastal communities’ healthy eating and folk medicine
practice. In tandem to this, these marine macroalgae have highly potentiate
themselves as a tangible source of functional ingredients that is industrial applicable.
Globally various division of geochemical marine macroalgae flora taxa (Chlorophyta,
Phaeophyta, and Rhodophyta) flourish. However, despite substantial optimised yield
and empirical evidence of their health potential benefits, these macroalgae remained
largely pharmaceutical and medical related industries innovative unexploited. Of
these leads compounds, sulfated polysaccharides offer a wide range of physiological
and chemical-biological activities that include antioxidative, anticoagulant, antiviral,
antitumor, anti-inflammatory, antihyperlipidemic and antihepatotoxic activities. Per
se, the optimization of sulfated polysaccharides as functional food and Vis a Vis, as
therapeutic agents is this millennium important research agenda. As such, this review
extrapolates the bioprospect of sulfated polysaccharides (Sulfated galactans, Fucans,
and Ulvans) from geochemical signature macroalgae potential context as functional
food and as tangible source for drug discovery.