Bacterial exopolysaccharides (EPS) are products of biotechnology that are of high interest
due to their rheological properties. This is the case of sphingans, a group of structurally …

Microbial exopolysaccharides are of high molecular weight, environment friendly valuable
natural polymers, having applications in diverse areas such as food industry …

The sialic acid-like sugar 5, 7-diacetamido-3, 5, 7, 9-tetradeoxy-d-glycero-d-galacto-
nonulosonic acid, or legion-aminic acid, is found as a virulence-associated cell-surface …

Biosorption is considered an effective technique for the treatment of heavy-metal-bearing
wastewaters. In recent years, various biogenic products, including native and functionalized …

Microbial polysaccharides have a wide range of functional properties and show high
relevance in industrial applications. The possibility to create tailor-made polysaccharides by …

UDP-glucose is an essential metabolite for a variety of processes in the cell physiology in all
organisms. In prokaryotes, it is involved in the synthesis of trehalose, an osmoprotectant, in …

This review examines the production of the microbial polysaccharide gellan, synthesized by
Sphingomonas elodea, on dairy and plant-based processing coproducts. Gellan is a water …

Low-energy nitrogen ion beam implantation technique was used for the strain improvement
of Alcaligenes sp. NX-3 for the production of exopolysaccharide welan gum. A high welan …

The optimal temperature for the microbial polysaccharide fermentation is no higher than 30°
C, which is economically undesirable due to additional cooling cost. To solve this problem in …

The genes encoding for UDPglucose pyrophosphorylase in two Xanthomonas spp. were
cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. After purification to electrophoretic …