Publication date: Jun 24, 2025
Curdlan, an exopolysaccharide, has gained sufficient attention in recent years due to its potential health benefits. Its unique physico-chemical and rheological properties create an appropriate substitute for diverse applications in agriculture, food, and pharmaceutical industries. This review begins with an overview of bioactive properties, structural characteristics, curdlan biosynthesis, and its production technologies. Curdlan is useful in the modulation of immune responses and as an effective agent against diseases like malaria, cancer, dengue, and COVID-19. This review also expounds on the potential role of curdlan in the food industry as a thickener, texture modifier, stabilizer, and emulsifier. This biomolecule holds promise for functional food development due to its prebiotic properties. Research on curdlan has proved its potential role in the biomedical sector, and it acts positively in drug delivery and tissue engineering practices. Thus, curdlan offers a potential remedy in response to growing environmental concerns and the urgent demand for environment-friendly substitutes for synthetic polymers.
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Biosynthesis | Antimicrobial |
| Cancer | Biopolymer |
| Environmental | COVID-19 |
| Multifarious | Curdlan |
| Prebiotic | Exopolysaccharide |
| Glycans | |
| Prebiotic |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | IDO | production |
| disease | MESH | malaria |
| pathway | KEGG | Malaria |
| disease | MESH | cancer |
| disease | MESH | dengue |
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
| disease | IDO | role |