Natanamurugaraj, Govindan and Maniam, Gaanty Pragas and Mohd Hasbi, Ab. Rahim and Ahmad Ziad, Sulaiman and Azilah, Ajit (2021) Biological macromolecules from algae and their antimicrobial applications. In: Biological Macromolecules. Bioactivity and Biomedical Applications . Science Direct, pp. 203-217.
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Abstract
Algae are the dominated diverse group of the unicellular and multicellular organisms in the eukaryotic phylum. They have close resemblance with photosynthetic plants in the form of metabolic pathways, but the actual root systems are not similar. Microalgae can be cultivated using natural or artificial light systems using freshwater, marine water blackish water and even wastewater providing additional benefit by removing nutrients and organic pollutants from wastewater. Peptides (BP) are specific protein fragments that are involved in a wide range of therapeutic activities as antihypertensive, antioxidant, antitumoral, antiproliferative, hypocholesterolemic, and antiinflammatory. Besides, their also involved triggering mechanisms as well as nutritive function that providing the amino acid units as building blocks for new proteins to cells. Microalgae antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have several advantages including gene expression similar to higher plants and cost effective phototrophic cultivation with simple and inexpensive medium and a safe food additive, so oral delivery of AMPs containing algae is possible.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Algae; macromolecules; antimicrobial compounds; seaweed metabolic pathways |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Faculty/Division: | Faculty of Industrial Sciences And Technology Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering Technology |
| Depositing User: | Miss. Ratna Wilis Haryati Mustapa |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2022 08:15 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2022 08:15 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/35978 |
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