Nutraceutical, Anti-Inflammatory, and Immune Modulatory Effects of β-Glucan Isolated from Yeast

Biomed Res Int. 2017:2017:8972678. doi: 10.1155/2017/8972678. Epub 2017 Aug 23.

Abstract

β-Glucan is a dietary fibre, found in many natural sources, and controls chronic metabolic diseases effectively. However, β-glucan from the yeast has rarely been investigated. Objectively, conditions were optimized to isolate β-glucan from the yeast (max. 66% yield); those optimized conditions included 1.0 M NaOH, pH 7.0, and 90°C. The purity and identity of the isolated β-glucan were characterized through FT-IR, SEM, DSC, and physicofunctional properties. The obtained results from DSC revealed highly stable β-glucan (m.p., 125°C) with antioxidant activity (TAC value 0.240 ± 0.0021 µg/mg, H2O2 scavenging 38%), which has promising bile acid binding 40.463% and glucose control (in vitro). In line with these results, we evaluated the in vivo anti-inflammatory potential, that is, myeloperoxidase activity and reduction in MDA and NO; protective effect on proteins and keeping viscosity within normal range exhibited improvement. Also, the in vivo cholesterol binding and reduction in the skin thickness by β-glucan were highly encouraging. Finally, our results confirmed that yeast β-glucan is effective against some of the inflammatory and oxidative stress markers studied in this investigation. In general, the effect of 4% β-glucan was more noticeable versus 2% β-glucan. Therefore, our results support the utilization of β-glucan as a novel, economically cheap, and functional food ingredient.

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents / pharmacology*
  • Antioxidants / metabolism
  • Dehydroascorbic Acid / analogs & derivatives
  • Dehydroascorbic Acid / metabolism
  • Dietary Supplements
  • Glucose / metabolism
  • Immunologic Factors / pharmacology*
  • Nitric Oxide / metabolism
  • Oxidation-Reduction / drug effects
  • Oxidative Stress / drug effects
  • Viscosity / drug effects
  • Yeasts / metabolism*
  • beta-Glucans / metabolism*

Substances

  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents
  • Antioxidants
  • Immunologic Factors
  • beta-Glucans
  • Nitric Oxide
  • semidehydroascorbic acid
  • Glucose
  • Dehydroascorbic Acid