Review Article
Exploring and Utilization of Some Bacterial Exopolysaccharide
*Corresponding Author: Tereza Cristina Luque Castellane, Departamento de Tecnologia, Laboratório de Bioquímica de Microrganismos e Plantas, UNESP -Univ Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias, Rod. Prof.Paulo Donato Castellane Km 5, CEP 14884-900, Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil, Tel: +5516 997962875, Fax: +55 16 32092675, Email: teluque@yahoo.com.brReceived Date: Mar 30, 2018 / Accepted Date: Apr 27, 2018 / Published Date: May 02, 2018
Citation: Luque Castellane TC, Franco Lemos MV, De Macedo Lemosa EG (2018) Exploring and Utilization of Some Bacterial Exopolysaccharide. Biopolymers Res 2: 106.
Copyright: © 2018 Luque Castellane TC, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
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.
