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Environmental Microbiology (2009) 11(3), 729–730
doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01894.x
Web alert Microbial exopolysaccharides An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in Environmental microbiology Exopolysaccharide – Wapedia
Gellan gum
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Exopolysaccharide
http://www.fao.org/docrep/w6355e/w6355e0f.htm
This web entry provides general definitions and a list of exopolysaccahrides. It provides a starting point for searches on specific structural classes.
This web page describes the specifications of gellan that are important in its commercial uses.
Levan Polysaccharide-encapsulated bacteria – Wapedia http://wapedia.mobi/en/Polysaccharide_encapsulated_ bacteria Exopolysaccharides are important for bacterial survival, particularly for some pathogenic bacteria. This page focuses on this aspect of exopolysaccharides.
http://www.polysaccharides.us/aboutlevan_background. php This commercial page contains excellent information on the microbial polysaccahride levan. Levan is unusual in that it packs into spherical structures.
This database represents a beginning effort to catalogue genes and metabolic pathways involved in the biosynthesis of bacterial polysaccharides.
This web page describes the specifications of alginate, a commercially important polysaccharide used in enzyme immobilization.
Gellan gum
What is pullulan?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gellan_gum
http://www.ncpri.ro/pullulan/en/7285/index.html
Gellan gum is a polysaccharide that is sometimes used as a gelling agent in place of agar. It is known commercially as Gelrite.
Pullulan is a neutral exopolysaccharide made by different strains of Aureobasidium pullulans. The web page contains basic information about the polymer.
Gellan gum: structure and properties
Rice kefiran
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/hygellan.html
http://www.jafra.gr.jp/eng/kfr1.html
Gellan gum is prepared commercially from Sphingomonas elodea. This web page describes the chemical structure and properties of gellan.
Kefir is a popular fermented food made by lactobacillus fermentation. The Lactobacillus strain making kefir generates an exopolysaccharide known as kefiran.
Curdlan gum is an exopolymer prepared from cultures of Alcaligenes faecalis var. myxogenes. This page describes the chemical properties of the polymer.
This website focuses on advanced oil recovery methods. Surprisingly, some microbial exopolysaccharides are used in advanced oil recovery where they plug rock fractures and prevent oil seepage.
Commercial welan gum http://www.cpkelco.com/welan/index.html This commercial web page describes commercially relevant properties of the exopolysaccharide known as welan gum.
Lawrence P. Wackett McKnight Professor and Head Microbial Biochemistry and Biotechnology Department of Biochemistry Molecular Biology and Biophysics University of Minnesota St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Succinoglycan http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/114458 This web abstract describes the properties of succinoglycan as a useful polymer.
