Taxonomic group: fungi / Ascomycota, Basidiomycota
(Phylum: Ascomycota, Basidiomycota)
NCBI PubMed ID: 33838817Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.117940Journal NLM ID: 8307156Publisher: Elsevier
Correspondence: Cordeiro LMC <lucimaramcc
ufpr.br>; Iacomini M <iacomini
ufpr.br>
Institutions: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research and Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, Agroscope, Research Division, Plant Protection, Phytopathology and Zoology in Fruit and Vegetable Production, Wädenswil, Switzerland
Mushroom D-glucans are recognized as dietary fibers and as biologically active natural polysaccharides, with the advantages of being quite inexpensive for production, tolerable, and having a range of possible structures and physicochemical properties. The prebiotic potential of mushroom D-glucans has been explored in recent years, but the relationship between their various structural features and activity is poorly understood. This review focuses on comprehensively evaluating the prebiotic potential of mushroom D-glucans in face of their structural variations. Overall, mushroom D-glucans provide a unique set of different structures and physicochemical properties with prebiotic potential, where linkage type and solubility degree seem to be associated with prebiotic activity outcomes. The understanding of the effects of distinct structures and physicochemical properties in mushroom D-glucans on the gut microbiota contributes to the design and selection of new prebiotics in a more predictable way.
physicochemical properties, mushroom D-glucans, prebiotic effect
Structure type: homopolymer
Location inside paper: Table 1, Cookeina speciosa; Hericium caputmedusae; Lentinula edodes; Wolfiporia cocos {OLD: Poria cocos}
Trivial name: glucan, β-1,3-glucan, curdlan, curdlan-type polysaccharide 13140, paramylon, curdlan, laminarin, β-glucan, curdlan, β-(1,3)-glucan, β-(1,3)-glucan, curdlan, curdlan, β-1,3-glucan, paramylon, reserve polysaccharide, b-glucan, β-1,3-D-glucan, laminaran, botryosphaeran, laminaran type β-D-glucan, latiglucan I, pachymaran, Curdlan, zymosan A, β-glucan, curdlan, laminarin, zymosan, zymosan, glucan particles, zymosan, β-(1-3)-glucan, β-(1,3)-glucan, β-(1,3)glucan, pachymaran, D-glucan (DPn)540, pachyman, laminaran, curdlan, zymosan, zymosan, β-(1,3)-glucan, zymosan A, zymosan, β-1,3-glucan, curdlan, β-1,3-glucan, curdlan, β-1,3-glucan, curdlan, pachyman, β-(1,3)-glucan, curdlan, callose, a water-insoluble β-(1→3)-glucan, fermentum β-polysaccharide, water-insoluble glucan, alkali-soluble β-glucan (PeA3), alkali-soluble polysaccharide (PCAP), callose, laminarin
Compound class: EPS, O-polysaccharide, cell wall polysaccharide, lipophosphoglycan, glycoprotein, LPG, glucan, polysaccharide, glycoside, β-glucan, β3-glucan, cell wall glucan
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_1397514,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_153543,IEDB_158555,IEDB_161166,IEDB_2278476,IEDB_2278477,IEDB_558869,IEDB_857743,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Comments, role: review
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 165092,
81056Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G51056AN, GlycomeDB:
157, CCSD:
50049, CBank-STR:4225, CA-RN: 51052-65-4, GenDB:FJ3380871.1
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There is only one chemically distinct structure:
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