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Metabolite Profiling of Macroalgae: Biosynthesis and Beneficial Biological Prop...
Carpena, María; Pereira, Cláudia S.G.P.; Silva, Aurora; Barciela, Paula; Jorge, Ana Olívia Serra; Perez-Vazquez, Ana; Pereira, Antia GonzalezMacroalgae are known as abundant sources of phytochemicals, which offer a plethora of beneficial biological properties. Besides being the most notable classes of compounds found in macroalgae, phlorotannins, bromophenols, and terpenoids comprise some of the most relevant for their biological properties. Phlorotannins, mainly prevalent in brown algae and structurally characterized as complex polyphenolic compoun...
Citrus Seed Waste and Circular Bioeconomy: Insights on Nutritional Profile, Hea...
Seyyedi-Mansour, Sepidar; Carpena, María; Donn, Pauline; Barciela, Paula; Perez-Vazquez, Ana; Echave Álvarez, Javier; Pereira, Antia GonzalezCitrus fruits are widely grown, processed, and distributed in more than 140 countries, with annual global production exceeding 124.3 million metric tons. This substantial consumption generates significant organic waste, accounting for approximately 50–60% of the total fruit mass, primarily in the form of peel, pulp, and seeds. Often discarded or reused as animal feed, these wastes contribute to significant envi...
Plant alkaloids: production, extraction, and potential therapeutic properties
Pereira, Antia Gonzalez; Cassani, Lucia; Garcia-Oliveira, Paula; Otero, Paz; Mansoor, Sepidar; Echave Álvarez, Javier; Xiao, JianboAlkaloids are a type of secondary metabolites that can be found in different parts of plants. This group of compounds is diverse and can be divided into nine subgroups: pyridine, tropane, isoquinoline, phenanthrene, phenylethylamine, indole, purine, imidazole, and terpenoids. Most of these compounds are recognized for their anti-inflammatory, antitumor, antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral activities, among...
Non-alkaloid nitrogen-containing compounds from fungi
Hached, Hanine; Cassani, Lucia; Zbiss, Yosra; Fraga-Corral, Maria; Oliveira, Izamara; Pereira, Antia Gonzalez; Prieto Lage, Miguel A.Fungi represent an ancient ubiquitous and interesting kingdom that can be classified into Phycomycota, Oomycota, Microsporidiomycota, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, and Deuteromycota divisions. These microorganisms are considered as a reservoir of bioactive compounds that can be exploited in crucial fields: food, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries. Non-alkaloid nitrogenated compounds are consid...
Untargeted metabolomics and in vitro functional analysis unravel the intraspeci...
Pereira, Antia Gonzalez; Cassani, Lucia; Oludemi, Taofiq; Chamorro, Franklin; Calhelha, Ricardo C.; Prieto Lage, Miguel A.; Barros, LillianThe Camellia genus comprises a vast array of underexplored medicinal plants that merit a systematic valorization to exploit their potential as natural sources of phytochemicals with associated health-promoting properties. In this work, flower extracts from eight poorly characterized Camellia japonica L. cultivars were subjected to polyphenol profiling through untargeted metabolomics combined with in vitro funct...
Occurrence of fatty acids in Camellia genus: extractions technologies and poten...
Pereira, Antia Gonzalez; Carpena Rodríguez, María; Cassani, Lucia; Chamorro, Franklin; Simal-Gandara, Jesus; Prieto Lage, Miguel A.The Camellia genus (Theaceae) comprises more than 200 species, including the most famous Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze, Camellia oleifera Abel, and Camellia japonica (L.). The commercial interest in these plants linked to their seed fatty acid content increased in the last decades due to their quality and health-enhancing properties, which significantly depend on different aspects such as environmental conditio...
Camellia japonica flowers as a source of nutritional and bioactive compounds
Pereira, Antia Gonzalez; Cassani, Lucia; Liu, Chao; Li, Ningyang; Chamorro, Franklin; Barreira, João C.M.; Simal-Gandara, Jesus; Prieto Lage, Miguel A.In recent decades, plants have strengthened their relevance as sources of molecules potentially beneficial for health. This underpinning effect also arises from the extensive research that has been conducted on plants that are typically undervalued, besides being scarcely used. This is the case with Camellia japonica in Galicia (NW Spain), where, despite its abundance, it is exclusively used for ornamental purp...
Analytical metabolomics and applications in health, environmental and food science
Fraga-Corral, Maria; Carpena Rodríguez, María; Garcia-Oliveira, Paula; Pereira, Antia Gonzalez; Prieto Lage, Miguel A.; Simal-Gandara, JesusMetabolomics is a young field of knowledge that arises linked to other omics such as genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics. This discipline seeks to understand the performance of metabolites, identifying, quantifying them, and thus understanding its mechanism of action. This new branch of omics science shows high potential, due to its noninvasive character and its close relation with phenotype. Several tech...
Status and challenges of plant-anticancer compounds in cancer treatment
Garcia-Oliveira, Paula; Otero, Paz; Pereira, Antia Gonzalez; Chamorro Rivo, Franklin Noel; Carpena Rodríguez, María; Echave Álvarez, JavierNowadays, cancer is one of the deadliest diseases in the world, which has been estimated to cause 9.9 million deaths in 2020. Conventional treatments for cancer commonly involve monochemotherapy or a combination of radiotherapy and mono-chemotherapy. However, the negative side effects of these approaches have been extensively reported and have prompted the search of new therapeutic drugs. In this context, scien...
The use of camellias as potential antioxidant agents
Pereira, Antia Gonzalez; Jarboui, Amira; Garcia-Perez, Pascual; Taofiq, Oludemi; Simal-Gandara, Jesus; Prieto Lage, Miguel A.; Barros, LillianThe genus Camellia presents a wide geographic distribution in which three species can be highlighted: Camellia japonica for ornamental purposes, Camellia oleifera for essential oil production, and Camellia sinensis for tea production. Among them, C. japonica is characterized by its associated high socioeconomic impact in Galicia (NW Spain) due to its abundance in gardens, since, to date, its use continues to be...