Biopolymerforschung

Abstrakt

Exploring and Utilization of Some Bacterial Exopolysaccharide

Tereza Cristina Luque Castellane, Manoel Victor Franco Lemos and Eliana Gertrudes de Macedo Lemosa

In the mid of the 19th century, the first remarkable example of a Microbial Exopolysaccharide (EPS) used in pharmaceutical applications was discovered in wine, a neutral polymer with α-(1→6) and α-(1→4) glucopyranosyl linkages, called dextran. Other than this, a vast number of extracellular carbohydrate polymers were described over the recent decades, with only a few of them emerging as industrially important macromolecules. Since an impressive large volume of publications has been dedicated to the potential novel applications of EPS, we believe that several novel EPS with significant commercial value will certainly spark interest soon. This review aims to achieving the status of the recent potential candidate EPS to future commercial applications.