RESUMO
Los macromicetos han sido parte de la cultura humana desde hace miles de años y aparecen descritos como alimento humano en las más importantes civilizaciones de la historia. Se han descrito muchísimas propiedades nutricéuticas de los macromicetos, como sus propiedades anticancerígenas y antitumorales, hipocolesterolémicas, antivirales, antibacterianas, o inmunomoduladoras, entre otras. Dado que la producción de hongos por cultivo tradicional y la extracción de los metabolitos bioactivos en algunos casos son muy dispendiosas, la biotecnología es fundamental para el desarrollo de técnicas rentables y productivas para la obtención de estos metabolitos. Es el desarrollo de esta tecnología y la facilidad que proporciona en cuanto al manejo de sus variables, lo que ha permitido realizar el cultivo en medio líquido del micelio de macrohongos con significativa reducción de tiempo y aumento en la producción de sus metabolitos, lo que ha impulsado aún más su obtención y el estudio de compuestos con potencial como medicamentos, nutricéuticos y cuasifarmacéuticos tanto del medio agotado como del micelio. El objetivo de esta revisión es el de ofrecer una visión general de la utilización de la fermentación en estado líquido como herramienta tecnológica para la obtención de hongos comestibles, su estudio y el de sus bioactivos, mediante la descripción de las diferentes condiciones de cultivo que en los últimos años se han empleado, así como los resultados obtenidos. Se discutirá lo correspondiente a los géneros Agaricus, Flammulina, Grifola, Pleurotus y Lentinula, con énfasis en este último, dado que el Shiitake ha sido considerado desde siempre como el hongo medicinal por excelencia(AU)
Macromycetes have been part of the human culture for thousand years, and have been reported as food in the most important civilizations in history. Many nutraceutical properties of macromycetes have been described, such as anti-cancer, anti-tumour, cholesterol lowering, antiviral, antibacterial, or immunomodulatory, among others. Given that production of mushrooms by traditional cultivation and extraction of bioactive metabolites is very difficult in some cases, biotechnology is essential for the development of profitable and productive techniques for obtaining these metabolites. It is the development of this technology, and the ease in which it enables the use of its variables that has allowed mycelium to be cultivated in liquid medium of macrofungi, with a significant reduction in time and an increased production of metabolites. This increased production has led to the study of compounds that have medicinal, nutriceutical and quasi-farmaceutical potential, in the exhausted media and the mycelium. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of the use of liquid-state fermentation as a technological tool for obtaining edible fungi, and the study of these and their metabolites, by describing the different cultivation conditions used in recent years, as well as the results obtained. The relevance of Agaricus, Flammulina, Grifola, Pleurotus and Lentinula genera, will also be discussed, with emphasis on the last one, since Shiitake has been always considered as the ultimate medicinal mushroom(AU)
Assuntos
Agaricales/isolamento & purificação , Suplementos Nutricionais , Micélio/química , Micélio/genética , Micélio/isolamento & purificação , Agaricus/isolamento & purificação , Flammulina/isolamento & purificação , Grifola/isolamento & purificação , Pleurotus/isolamento & purificação , Lentinula/isolamento & purificação , Fermentação , Fermentação/imunologia , Fermentação/fisiologia , Cogumelos Shiitake/isolamento & purificaçãoRESUMO
Macromycetes have been part of the human culture for thousand years, and have been reported as food in the most important civilizations in history. Many nutraceutical properties of macromycetes have been described, such as anti-cancer, anti-tumour, cholesterol lowering, antiviral, antibacterial, or immunomodulatory, among others. Given that production of mushrooms by traditional cultivation and extraction of bioactive metabolites is very difficult in some cases, biotechnology is essential for the development of profitable and productive techniques for obtaining these metabolites. It is the development of this technology, and the ease in which it enables the use of its variables that has allowed mycelium to be cultivated in liquid medium of macrofungi, with a significant reduction in time and an increased production of metabolites. This increased production has led to the study of compounds that have medicinal, nutriceutical and quasi-farmaceutical potential, in the exhausted media and the mycelium. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of the use of liquid-state fermentation as a technological tool for obtaining edible fungi, and the study of these and their metabolites, by describing the different cultivation conditions used in recent years, as well as the results obtained. The relevance of Agaricus, Flammulina, Grifola, Pleurotus and Lentinula genera, will also be discussed, with emphasis on the last one, since Shiitake has been always considered as the ultimate medicinal mushroom.
