Author(s): Pradip Patra

Abstract:
Water soluble polysaccharides were isolated from the aqueous and alkali extract of fruit bodies of hybrid mushrooms, obtained through protoplast fusion from different mushrooms. The polysaccharides were consisting of different monosaccharide units in different molar ratio. These polysaccharides showed immunoenhancing activity by stimulating the macrophage, splenocyte, and thymocyte. The structural investigations of these polysaccharides have been carried out using acid hydrolysis, methylation analysis, periodate oxidation study, and 1D/2D NMR experiments. In this review, structural characterizations and some biological activities of hybrid mushroom are shown.

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