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- Title
Marine yeast diet confers better protection than its cell wall component (1-3)-β-d-glucan as an immunostimulant in Fenneropenaeus indicus.
- Authors
Sajeevan, Thavarool Puthiyedathu; Lowman, Douglas W.; Williams, David L.; Selven, Subramanian; Anas, Abdulaziz; Rosamma, Philip
- Abstract
A comparative study was performed to evaluate the immunostimulatory effect of yeast and yeast-derived glucan in white prawn Fenneropenaeus indicus (sub-adults of ∼20 gm). Feed with a whole cell biomass of marine yeast Candida sake S165 (CSY) at a concentration of 10% (w/w) and another feed with 0.2% glucan of C. sake S165 (CSG) were used in the study. Fenneropenaeus indicus were fed with these diets for 40 days and subsequently challenged with the white spot syndrome virus (WSSV). Haematological parameters such as the total haemocyte count, phenoloxidase activity, superoxide anion (O2−) level, haemolymph peroxidase level and post-challenge survival against WSSV infection were determined to assess the immune status. In the present experiment, a higher immunity index and post-challenge survival were recorded in shrimps fed with the whole cell yeast diet. The better immunostimulatory performance of the whole cell yeast diet compared with the glucan diet could be attributed to the cellular constituents of yeast including the cell wall glucan, nucleotides, carotenoid pigments and vitamins. Here we observed that whole cell yeast performed better as an immunostimulant than the extracted cell wall glucans. Therefore, the use of yeast biomass in diets, rather than the yeast cell wall extract, glucan, would confer better protection against microbial infection besides reducing the cost of shrimp production.
- Subjects
YEAST; NUTRITION; IMMUNOLOGICAL adjuvants; METALLOENZYMES; NUCLEIC acids
- Publication
Aquaculture Research, 2009, Vol 40, Issue 15, p1723
- ISSN
1355-557X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2109.2009.02275.x