Bioactive Polysaccharides

Dear Colleagues,

For many decades already, polysaccharides have fascinated scientists from all over the world. In the biopolymers family, polysaccharides are without a doubt the most complex and varied biomolecules from a structural and application point of view. In fact, as largely described, depending on biotope (microbial, plant, animal, macro-, and microalgal), polysaccharides can be described as high-molecular-weight (HMW) or low-molecular-weight (LMW) linear and/or substituted and/or branched polymers. Therefore, due to this high structural diversity, it is important to study the biological properties of polysaccharides from many existing and unexplored biotopes in a relationship between chemical structure and biological function in order to discover new pharmaceutical biobased molecules.

This first topical collection of Polysaccharides aims to explore all bioactive potentialities of characterized polysaccharides and derivatives extracted from all existing biotopes and biomasses from plants, animals, microbials/bacterials, and macro- and microalgals.

Consequently, as Collection Editor, I invite all scientists working on polysaccharides to contribute to this Polysaccharides collection on “Bioactives Polysaccharides” by submitting original research and review articles describing structural and bioactives polysaccharides and derivatives (hydrogels, grafting polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, etc.) from physico-chemical and/or enzymatical processes. In this topical collection, articles on polysaccharides’ biological mechanism of action are mostly welcome.

Dr. Cédric Delattre
Collection Editor

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