What is Trehalose

Product name:Trehalose
CAS:99-20-7
Molecular Formula:C12H22O11
Molecular Weight:342.3 g/mol
Description of Trehalose:
Trehalose is non-reducing disaccharide composing glucose molecule in a-1 bond. It exists as free form widely in plants, animals and microorganisms. Especially, some fungi like Shiitake-mushrooms, yeasts, seaweeds and shrimps contain more than 10% on dry basis. It is ingested daily in human history.
Trehalose is very effective at retaining water, and this property is thought to enable certain organisms to survive dessication, or drying out. This property is known as anhydrobiosis. The larvae of sea monkeys, for example, are able to seemingly miraculously spring back to life upon the addition of water. This is thought to happen because trehalose has acted as a gel and maintained the three dimensional structure of the lipid and protein structures of the cell by surrounding them throughout the drying period and while the animals are rehydrated, enabling them to maintain their internal 3-D structure. A similar situation is thought to exist for the resurrection moss Selaginella.
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