The genus<i>Turbinaria</i>: chemical and pharmacological diversity
Mohammed I. Rushdi, Iman A. M. Abdel-Rahman, Hani Saber, Eman Zekry Attia, Wedad M. Abdelraheem, Hashem A. Madkour, Usama Ramadan Abdelmohsen
Abstract
The Genus Turbinaria is still chemically and pharmacologically underexplored. These brown algae belong to the family Sargassaceae. Therapeutic potentials of pure compounds isolated from the Genus Turbinaria are extraordinarily promising as antiproliferative, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory immunostimulatory, anti-diabetic, anti-obesity, antiviral, antimicrobial, cardioprotective, hepatoprotective and hypolipidemic. Those activities are represented by diverse classes of compounds including sterols, amino acids, fatty acids, alcohols, halocarbons, hydrocarbons, carbohydrates, esters and cyclic tetrapyrrole compounds. This review focuses on the Genus Turbinaria during the period 1972 to 2019.