Edible and medicinal fungi (mushrooms) have found wide and increasing applications in functional foods and nutraceutical products because of their proven nutritive and medicinal properties. Polysaccharides (PS) and PS-protein (PSP) complexes represent a major class of constituents of the edible fungi with notable bioactivities such as immunomodulation, antitumor, antioxidant, antiviral, and prebiotic. Commercial mushroom materials including PS and PS-rich hot-water extracts are mainly (>80 %) derived from cultivated mushrooms (in fruit form) and a smaller amount ({\textasciitilde}15 %) from mycelial fermentation. Although the most common immunobioactive PS structures have a $β$-d-glucan main chain such as (1{\textrightarrow}3)-$β$-d-glucans and (1{\textrightarrow}6)-$β$-d-glucans with side chains, various other bioactive PS structures have also been documented such as $α$-d-glucans, glucomannans, and glycoproteins. In addition to functional food and therapeutic uses, mushroom PS and PSPs have also been applied as cosmeceutical ingredients.
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Wu, J.-Y. (2014). Polysaccharide-Protein Complexes from Edible Fungi and Applications. In Polysaccharides (pp. 1–10). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03751-6_38-1
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