Taxonomic group: fungi / Basidiomycota
(Phylum: Basidiomycota)
Organ / tissue: cell wall
NCBI PubMed ID: 30196242Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2018.06.010Journal NLM ID: 9010081Publisher: Stoneham, MA, USA: Butterworths
Correspondence: Xu B <baojunxu
uic.edu.hk>
Institutions: Food Science and Technology Program, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, China
The β-glucans are the glucose polymers present in the cells walls of yeast, fungi and cereals. β-Glucans are the major compositions of various nutritional diets such as oats, barley, seaweeds and mushrooms. Various biological activities of β-glucans have been reported such as anticancer, antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory and immune-modulating effects. The importance of β-glucans in food processing industries such as bread preparation, yogurt and pasta have been well elucidated. In recent findings on food science research gut microbiota plays a significant role and vastly studied for its intermediate role in regulating health. Several reports have suggested that β-glucans should have a significant impact on the gut microbiota changes and in turn on human health. The review was aimed to accumulate the evidence on types of β-glucans, their functional properties and the mechanism by how the β-glucans regulate the gut microbiota and human health. The various in vitro, in vivo and clinical studies, have been summarized, in particular, the changes happening upon the β-glucans supplementation on the gut microbiota. Overall, this review updates the recent studies on β-glucans and gut microbiota and also inputs the demanding questions to be addressed in β-glucans-microbiota research in the future.
β-Glucans, immunomodulation, microbiota, Antidiabetic, Anticancer, SCFA
Structure type: homopolymer ; 26000-569000
Location inside paper: table 2
Trivial name: pachyman
Compound class: cell wall polysaccharide, 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
Biological activity: binds with Dectin-1
Comments, role: review
Related record ID(s): 48726, 48727, 48728, 48730, 48731, 48732, 48733, 48734
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 81056Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G51056AN
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