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Table 5.

Sugar compositions of polysaccharide from different Termitomyces species.

Termitomyces Species	Polysaccharide Fraction	Sugar Compositions	Medicinal Importance	References
T. clypeatus	Water-soluble heteroglycan	D-glucose, D-galactose, D-mannose, and L-fucose	Antioxidant properties	[216]
T. eurhizus	Water-soluble polysaccharide (PS I and PS II)	D-glucose	NR	[217]
T. heimii	Water-soluble polysaccharide (THP-I)	Glucose	Antimicrobial, Anticancer, and Antioxidant properties	[152]
T. microcarpus	Water soluble glucan	D-glucose	NR	[215,218]
T. microcarpus	α-glucans (TM I) and β-glucans (TM II)	D-glucose	NR	[215,218]
T. robustus	β-glucans (PS I and PS II)	D-Glucose	Macrophage, Splenocyte, and Thymocyte activation	[219]
T. robustus	Water-soluble fucoglucan	L-fucose and D-glucose	NR	[219]
T. striatus	Heteropolysaccharide (PS-I)	D-glucose, D-galactose, D-mannose and L-fucose	NR	[220]