Alginate Oligosaccharide and Gut Microbiota: Exploring the Key to Health.

Alginate oligosaccharide (AOS), a degradation product of alginate derived from marine brown algae, has attracted significant attention due to its potent ability to modulate gut microbiota and enhance human health. This review aims to systematically introduce current evidence on the interactions betw...

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Publicado en:Nutrients Vol. 17; no. 12; pp. 1977 - 2004
Autores principales: Song, Meiling, Chen, Lin, Dong, Chen, Tang, Minghui, Wei, Yuan, Lv, Depeng, Li, Quancai, Chen, Zhen
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Publicado: MDPI Jun2025
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          Song, Meiling
          Chen, Lin
          Dong, Chen
          Tang, Minghui
          Wei, Yuan
          Lv, Depeng
          Li, Quancai
          Chen, Zhen
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          Alginates Analysis
          Alginates Pharmacodynamics
          Oligosaccharides Analysis
          Oligosaccharides Pharmacodynamics
          Gut Microbiota Drug Effects
          Molecular Structure
          Probiotics
          Fatty Acids, Volatile
          Intestinal Barrier Function
          Antioxidants Pharmacodynamics
          Immune System
          Inflammation Prevention and Control
          Infection Prevention and Control
          Metabolism Drug Effects
          Uric Acid Drug Effects
          Antineoplastic Agents Pharmacodynamics
          Skin Aging Drug Effects
      ab: Alginate oligosaccharide (AOS), a degradation product of alginate derived from marine brown algae, has attracted significant attention due to its potent ability to modulate gut microbiota and enhance human health. This review aims to systematically introduce current evidence on the interactions between AOS and gut microbial communities, focusing on how AOS improves health through regulating gut microbiota. Initially, the structural factors of AOS that influence their functions are highlighted, including molecular weight, monomer composition, terminal structure, and chemical modifications. Importantly, AOS primarily exerts beneficial effects by adjusting gut microbiota community and outputs, which include the promotion of probiotics, the inhibition of pathogens, the balance of microbiota composition, and the increase of short-chain fatty acid production. Moreover, the discovered mechanisms underlying AOS-mediated health promotion via microbiota modulation are detailed comprehensively, specifically emphasizing intestinal barrier maintenance, antioxidation, dual-regulation of immune and inflammatory responses, pathogenic infection inhibition, metabolic improvement, uric acid excretion promotion, anti-tumor effects, and anti-skin aging. Such beneficial effects make AOS valuable in keeping healthy, preventing disorders, and intervening in diseases. Despite these findings and research progress, there are yet limitations in studying AOS–gut microbiota interactions, such as precise microbiota-targeted structural optimization, personalized nutritional interventions based on microbial characteristics, and broadening the horizon of microbiota-derived metabolic metabolomic profiles. In conclusion, advancing our understanding of the gut microbiota-centered mechanisms of AOS would probably facilitate novel nutritional strategy development for health promotion.
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