Abstract

MUSHROOM DERIVED BIOACTIVE COMPOUND AS ANTI-CANCER AGENT

Sakshi V. Lamkhade*, Nusrat H. Pathan, R. Lad and Nikita A. Jadhav

Abstract

The nutritional and therapeutic benefits of mushrooms have long been acknowledged, especially in traditional systems. The bioactive chemicals have garnered recent scientific attention. The current state of research on medicinal mushrooms' natural anticancer properties, as well as their potential for use in medicine and future prospects. The primary biologically active components of mushrooms that cause immunomodulation and direct cytotoxicity toward cancer cell lines (including little-known classes of anticancer mushroom proteins) as well as the mechanisms underlying their antitumor action were examined because mushroom products and extracts have promising immunomodulation and anticancer effects. Numerous mushroom species include bioactive substances with potential anti-cancer effects, including lectins, phenolic compounds, terpenoids, and polysaccharides. These substances, which come from a variety of mushroom species, have therapeutic effects by influencing the immune system, causing apoptosis (programmed cell death), stopping the growth of cancer cells, and halting their spread. recent comprehensive analysis of bioactive chemicals found in all types of mushrooms. are applied to cancer. The many kinds of mushrooms have therapeutic benefits for cancer.

Keywords: Medicinal Mushroom, bioactive compounds, Polysaccharides, Anticancer drugs, Ganoderma lucidum.