Marine Marvels: Exploring the Antifungal Potential of Seaweed-derived Compounds
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Abstract
Marine macroalgae are commonly known as seaweeds. They have been traditionally used as an edible food source enriched with nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and fibers and low calories. Seaweeds produce bioactive substances like alkaloids, polysaccharides, polyenes, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), peptides, and proteins. The inappropriate use of antifungal medications to treat fungi infections has led to increasing resistance in the fungi that are being treated. Currently, there are only a few antifungal medicines available for use in therapy for fungal infections. In recent times most researchers have been interested in formulating newer antifungal compounds from natural ecosystems. The antifungal compounds exhibited by marine macroalgae and extraction methods of biologically active compounds from marine seaweeds are discussed in this review. The data included in this article are extracted from Google Scholar, PubMed, and NCBI from the years 2010 to 2023 by using keywords such as Marine macroalgae, antifungal compounds, seaweed, and extraction methods.