It s all about the marine carbohydrates (original) (raw)

Marine environments offer plenty of resources and varieties of natural products for human benefits; researches on marine carbohydrates are constantly increasing to discover their novel properties to utilize in various industrial applications (Fig. 1). A carbohydrate is a biological molecules consisting of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms with the empirical formula of Cn H2n On. In general, based on the degree of polymerization, they are classified as mono and disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides (Edwards and Garcia 2009). Marine carbohydrates can be classified based on their source of isolation (marine animal, plant and microbes) and they are considered as an extraordinary source of chemical diversity for drug discovery (Laurienzo 2010). In addition, research on marine carbohydrates are showed an increasing manner to utilize their valuable properties to various industrial applications including cosmetics, food and agriculture, pharmaceutical, nanotechnology, biotechnology and microbiology, industrial effluent treatment, etc. In this context, the present study has discussed the recent advancement and application of carbohydrates derived from the marine sources (Microbial, Plant and Animals).

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