Exploring the partial degradation of polysaccharides: Structure, mechanism, bioactivities, and perspectives

SK Chen, X Wang, YQ Guo, XX Song… - … Reviews in Food …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polysaccharides are promising biomolecules with lowtoxicity and diverse bioactivities in
food processing and clinical drug development. However, an essential prerequisite for their …

Gut microbiota fermentation of marine polysaccharides and its effects on intestinal ecology: An overview

Q Shang, H Jiang, C Cai, J Hao, G Li, G Yu - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2018 - Elsevier
The gut microbiota that resides in the mammalian intestine plays a critical role in host health,
nutrition, metabolic and immune homeostasis. As symbiotic bacteria, these microorganisms …

Structural and immunological studies on the polysaccharide from spores of a medicinal entomogenous fungus Paecilomyces cicadae

Y Chen, T Wang, X Zhang, F Zhang, RJ Linhardt - Carbohydrate polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
A neutral branched heteropolysaccharide (Pc0− 1) was purified from the spores of
Paecilomyces cicadae, which parasitized in the bamboo cicada (Platylomia pieli Kato). The …

Preparation and structure-activity relationship of highly active black garlic polysaccharides

J Liang, Y Zhao, F Yang, L Zheng, Y Ma, Q Liu… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to establish a method to improve the biological activity of
polysaccharides. Three acid-treated polysaccharides (BGPS-2, BGPS-3 and BGPS-4) were …

Structural characterization and SARS-CoV-2 inhibitory activity of a sulfated polysaccharide from Caulerpa lentillifera

Y You, H Song, L Wang, H Peng, Y Sun, C Ai… - Carbohydrate …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Caulerpa lentillifera (Bryopsidophyceae, Chlorophyta) is an edible seaweed
attracting great attention for its expansion of farming scale and increasing consumption in …

An acidic polysaccharide from Patinopecten yessoensis skirt prevents obesity and improves gut microbiota and metabolism of mice induced by high-fat diet

Z Liu, Y Zhang, C Ai, W Tian, C Wen, S Song… - Food Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
The prevention of obesity is an urgent need for worldwide public health. The scallop
(Patinopecten yessoensis) skirt is the by-product of adductor processing. In order to explore …

Characterization, in vitro digestibility, antioxidant activity and intestinal peristalsis in zebrafish of Dioscorea opposita polysaccharides

R Wang, W Liu, L Liu, F Ma, Q Li, P Zhao, W Ma… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The soluble crude polysaccharides from Dioscorea opposita (DOP1 and DOP2) were
prepared and characterized. DOP1 and DOP2 obtained carbohydrate (65.71% and 70.18 …

Preparation of low-molecular-weight fucoidan with anticoagulant activity by photocatalytic degradation method

Y Qi, L Wang, Y You, X Sun, C Wen, Y Fu, S Song - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
It is a challenge to degrade sulfated polysaccharides without stripping sulfate groups. In the
present study, a photocatalytic method was applied to degrade fucoidan, a sulfated …

Improvement of simultaneous determination of neutral monosaccharides and uronic acids by gas chromatography

X Wang, L Zhang, J Wu, W Xu, X Wang, X Lü - Food chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Although pre-column derivatization with n-propylamine and acetic anhydride combined with
the gas chromatograph was a useful method for the analysis of monosaccharide …

Structural elucidation and anti-osteoporosis activities of polysaccharides obtained from Curculigo orchioides

X Wang, M Zhang, D Zhang, X Wang, H Cao… - Carbohydrate …, 2019 - Elsevier
Curculigo orchioides, is a traditional Chinese medicine, is used in strengthening tendons
and bones. We evaluated the anti-osteoporosis activity of the crude polysaccharide (CO70) …