β-glucan as a promising food additive and immunostimulant in aquaculture industry

Glucan-immunostimulant, adjuvant, potential drug.

β-glucans belong to a group of biologically active natural compounds called biological response modifiers. These substances represent highly conserved structural components of cell walls in fungi, yeast, grain and seaweed. Despite almost 160 years of intensive research, the exact mechanisms of their action remain unsolved. The significant role of glucans in cancer treatment, infection immunity,...

Production of Oligosaccharides as Promising New Food Additive Generation

Hélène Barreteau1, Cédric Delattre2 and Philippe Michaud3* Laboratoire des Enveloppes Bactériennes et Antibiotiques, IBBMC, UMR 8619 CNRS, Bâtiment 430, Université de Paris-Sud, FR-91405 Orsay, France Vellore Institut of Technology – Deemed University (VIT), Vellore 632014, Tamilnadu, India Laboratoire de Génie Chimique et Biochimique, Université Blaise Pascal – CUST, 24 avenue des Landais, BP2...

Antibiotics in Iranian Aquaculture Industry

Production and Application of Fructose Syrup in Food Industry as A Substitute for Sucrose

Today, sweeteners are one of the most important additives in the food industry and the demand for using these materials to produce different types of food products is increasing. Fructose or Laevulose is one of the natural sweeteners, which is found in abundance mainly in various fruits and honey. Corn starch is one of the most important sources of fructose syrup and has the potential to be use...

A Novel Lipase as Aquafeed Additive for Warm-Water Aquaculture

A novel Acinetobacter lipase gene lipG1 was cloned from DNA extracted from intestinal sample of common carp (Cyprinus carpio), and expressed in E. coli BL21. The encoded protein was 406 amino acids in length. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that LipG1 and its relatives comprised a novel group of true lipases produced by Gram-negative bacteria. LipG1 showed maximal activity at 40℃ and pH 8.0 whe...