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Advances in bacterial exopolysaccharides: from production to biotechnological applications
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Limitations and constraints ofacterial EPS development are stressed and correlation of bacterial EPS properties with polymer applications is emphasized, along with current downstream strategies.About:
This article is published in Trends in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 616 citations till now.read more
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Production and characterization of exopolysaccharide from marine moderately halophilic bacterium halomonas smyrnensis svd iii
TL;DR: Optimization of nutritional and environmental parameters to enhance the yield of EPS by Halomonas smyrnensis SVD III isolated from seawater, West Coast of Maharashtra, India resulted in two-fold increase in the yield which is of heptasaccharide nature.
Dissertation
Biological conversion of industrial by-products/wastes into value-added bacterial exopolysaccharides
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Marine Polyextremophiles and Their Biotechnological Applications
TL;DR: This chapter describes the versatility of marine microorganisms and the possible applications of polyextremophiles in the treatment of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
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Exopolysaccharide from Pantoea sp. BCCS 001 GH isolated from nectarine fruit: production in submerged culture and preliminary physicochemical characterizations.
Seyyed Vahid Niknezhad,Mohammad Hossein Morowvat,Ghasem Najafpour Darzi,Aida Iraji,Younes Ghasemi +4 more
TL;DR: The proposed protocol was desirably rapid for massive prodcution of EPS and showed the remarkable impact of sucrose and disodium hydrogen phosphate, peptone, Triton x-100 and 2% (v/v) inoculum size on the yields of EPS production.
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Tremella fuciformis TFCUV5 Mycelial Culture-derived Exopolysaccharide Production and Its Anti-aging Effects on Skin Cells
Min-Ho Jo,Byeol Kim,Jung-Hyun Ju,Sun-Yeon Heo,Keug-Hyun Ahn,Hye Ja Lee,Hyun-Sook Yeom,Hansu Jang,Min-Soo Kim,Chul Ho Kim,Baek-Rock Oh +10 more
TL;DR: Tremella fuciformis TFC6 mycelia was isolated from its fruiting body by ultraviolet mutagenesis to improve extracellular-polysaccharide (EPS) yield.
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