Abstract
As people across the world live longer, chronic illness and diminished well-being are becoming major global public health challenges. Marine biotechnology may help overcome some of these challenges by developing new products and know-how derived from marine organisms. While some products from marine organisms such as microalgae, sponges, and fish have already found biotechnological applications, jellyfish have received little attention as a potential source of bioactive compounds. Nevertheless, recent studies have highlighted that scyphomedusae (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) synthesise at least three main categories of compounds that may find biotechnological applications: collagen, fatty acids and components of crude venom. We review what is known about these compounds in scyphomedusae and their current biotechnological applications, which falls mainly into four categories of products: nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, biomedicals, and biomaterials. By defining the state of the art of biotechnological applications in scyphomedusae, we intend to promote the use of these bioactive compounds to increase the health and well-being of future societies.
Highlights
By definition, biotechnology is ‘the application of biological knowledge and techniques to develop products and other benefits for humans’ [1]
Scyphomedusae have been found to possess mainly three categories of compounds that may Scyphomedusae been found to possess mainly categories of compounds thatthe may find biotechnologicalhave applications: collagen, fatty acids and three bioactive compounds extracted from find biotechnological fatty acids andabioactive compounds extracted from crude venom of theirapplications: nematocysts.collagen, Scyphomedusae contain large volume of water
Fatty acids (FAs), the basic units of lipids, are made up by long chains of an even number of carbon atoms linked by a single bond in saturated fatty acids (SFAs) and double in unsaturated fatty acids
Summary
Biotechnology is ‘the application of biological knowledge and techniques to develop products and other benefits for humans’ [1]. The ecological and evolutionary significance of the processes leading to light production in the ocean are still debated and little known. Significance of the processes leading to light production in the ocean are still debated and little After their first extraction in 1962 [12], GFPs have found large applications in oncology known. The general increase and its potential causes are still under discussion due to the lack of regular monitoring of jellyfish abundance [17]. Jellyfish are often an undesired by-catch resulting from regular fishing activities, activities, because they damage and break the nets in which they are accidentally caught. This bybecause damage andensure break the in which are accidentally caught.
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