Fungal and Yeast Cell Wall Polysaccharides—Bioactivities and Practical Applications
A special issue of Polysaccharides (ISSN 2673-4176).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2024 | Viewed by 4511
Special Issue Editors
2. Biotechnologies Faculty, University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest, Romania
Interests: plant biostimulants; microbial and plant biosynthetized nanoparticles; nanocellulose; chitin/chitosan and nanochitin/nanochitosan; alginate; stimuli-responsive nanoformulations; multifunctional nanosystems; circular bioeconomy
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Interests: bioprocess; biopolymers; biorefinery; biosourced materials
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Interests: proteins; biopolymers; plant biostimulants; bio(nano)technology; green technologies; enzymology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, scientific articles and patents have revealed various bioactivities of polysaccharides derived from filamentous fungi and yeast cell walls, including antioxidant, anti-mutagen, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumoral, reduction of blood lipids (including cholesterol) due to reduced intestinal absorption, stimulation of the immune system, and elicitation of plant defence. Such bioactivities add to the existing practical applications of these polysaccharides as feed additives (prebiotics and mycotoxin adsorbents), food additives (emulsifying, thickening, gelling, cryoprotective, and/or encapsulation agents), and wine stabilization (including haze prevention in white wine).
Fungal and yeast cell wall polysaccharides can be recovered from food industry side streams (spent mushroom substrates, spent brewery yeasts, wine lees) or produced in significant quantities using well-known biosynthesis processes, e.g., bakery yeast production on molasses or solid-state fermentation for the production of mushrooms. The high added value of bioproducts made from yeast cell wall polysaccharides is a driver for the continuous development of research and innovation, leading to the practical exploitation of multiple functions of yeast cell wall polysaccharides.
This Special Issue welcomes research papers, reviews, opinion papers, and short communications covering various aspects of the bioactivities and practical applications of yeast cell wall polysaccharides.
Dr. Florin Oancea
Prof. Dr. Philippe Michaud
Dr. Diana Constantinescu-Aruxandei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- preparation of fungal and yeast cell wall components
- bioactivities of fungal and yeast cell wall polysaccharides
- application of fungal and yeast cell wall as food additive
- application of fungal and yeast cell wall as feed additive
- fungal and yeast cell wall application for nutraceutics and cosmeceutics
- fungal and yeast cell wall application for plant treatment
- yeast cell wall as wine stabilizer
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