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The biotechnological potential of Asparagopsis armata: what is known of its chemical composition, bioactivities and current market?
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Marine biomass is a resource with great potential to fuel a circular bioeconomy addressing the current economic and environmental world crisis, while seaweeds are known to be a great source of bioactive compounds with potential use for human and animal nutrition, novel natural preservatives, phytopharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, among others. Asparagopsis armata (Harvey, 1855) is a seaweed with high biomass production and exquisite biotechnological potential due to a myriad of produced secondary metabolites. Furthermore, it is one of the most aggressive invasive seaweed species becoming an economic and ecological problem in Europe. Simultaneously, it is a resource with market demand for its applications in cosmetics and, more recently, for its potential anti-methanogenic activity in ruminants. There is an appreciable amount of literature concerning the chemistry and the bioactivity of this seaweed species (and particularly its gametophyte, the focus of this review), as well as multiple products in the cosmetics market, but all this information is scattered and therefore poorly used. To potentiate the bioindustry of A. armata, the available scientific knowledge is here reviewed and an overview of the market for this species is comprehensively provided. Thus, the chemical composition of A. armata (primary metabolism, polysaccharide characteristics, amino acid profile, and nonhalogenated and halogenated secondary metabolites), its bioactivities (antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antiprotozoal, antioxidant, antitumor, anti-inflammatory, among others) and the existent, marketed extracts (cosmetic ingredients) are thoroughly compiled and discussed herein.
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Funding : This study was supported by FCT/MCTES through funding to MARE (UID/MAR/04292/2020) and by the grant awarded to Rafael Félix (SFRH/ BD/139763/2018). The authors also wish to acknowledge the support of the European Union through EASME Blue Labs project AMALIA (EASME/EMFF/2016/1.2.1.4/03/SI2.750419), project VALORMAR (Mobilizing R&TD Programs, Portugal 2020) cofunded by COMPETE (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-024517), the Integrated Programme of SR&TD SmartBioR (reference Centro-01-0145-FEDER-000018), and RD&T copromotion project ORCHESTRA (n◦ 70155) cofunded by Centro 2020 program, Portugal 2020, European Union, European Regional Development Fund, and SAICTPAC/0019/2015—LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER POINT4PAC through the European Regional Development Fund, and MACAU (MAR-04.03.01-FEAMP-0128) and COSMOS (MAR04.03.01-FEAMP-0370) cofounded by GAL PESCA OESTE and MAR2020 in the framework of PORTUGAL2020 through the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund.
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Red seaweed Cosmetics Polysaccharides Antibacterial Halogenated metabolites
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Citação
Rafael Félix, Pedro Dias, Carina Félix, Teresa Cerqueira, Paula B. Andrade, Patrícia Valentão, Marco F.L. Lemos, The biotechnological potential of Asparagopsis armata: What is known of its chemical composition, bioactivities and current market?, Algal Research, Volume 60, 2021, 102534, ISSN 2211-9264, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2021.102534.
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Elsevier