Avaliação da genotoxicidade das xantanas produzidas pelas cepas 06 e 24 de Xanthomonas campestris pv pruni através do ensaio cometa e teste de micronúcleos.

Abstract

Among the vast number of types of polysaccharides produced in nature, by plants, algae, and bacteria, xanthan is the one of the few that has functional properties leading to a broad spectrum of uses as well as commercial production in large quantities. It is the second microbial polysaccharide to be developed for an economically process, and it has continued to be the single most important biopolymer in food applications because of this useful properties. The chemical and physical properties of commercial xanthan mainly viscosity and stability with relation to temperature and pH variations, it makes that polysaccharide to be utilised a lot of for food industries, like as thickener and stabilizer of suspensions and emulsions. Because xanthan by patovar pruni is a new material never before introduced into foods, tests should be conduct in conformance with Agência de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA) for stablish its safety. And due to a few studies about the genotoxical mighty of xanthan, has been important to make a work about it. In this study, were experimentaly used xanthans produced by 06 and 24 strain from Xanthomonas campestris pv pruni and commercial xanthan from the same bacteria, but by pv campestris (Jungbunzlauer), like a additional component of mice diet, with aim of genotoxical evaluation in this animal model, through comet assay and micronuclei test. The comet assay and micronuclei test data were evaluated and, then, were able to comply no increase DNA damage induced by xanthans evaluated, through of utilised tests. Furthermore, was observed a tendency to decrease cholesterol and glucose levels, in the treatment with xanthans, although its values doesn´t have been significantly inferior to control group.