Taxonomic group: bacteria / Proteobacteria
(Phylum: Proteobacteria)
NCBI PubMed ID: 28554522Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.05.092Journal NLM ID: 9889523Publisher: Elsevier
Correspondence: amr
fct.unl.pt
Institutions: UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
Although the ability to secrete exopolysaccharides (EPS) is widespread among microorganisms, only a few bacterial (e.g. xanthan, levan, dextran) and fungal (e.g. pullulan) EPS have reached full commercialization. During the last years, other microbial EPS producers have been the subject of extensive research, including endophytes, extremophiles, microalgae and Cyanobacteria, as well as mixed microbial consortia. Those studies have demonstrated the great potential of such microbial systems to generate biopolymers with novel chemical structures and distinctive functional properties. In this work, an overview of the bioprocesses developed for EPS production by the wide diversity of reported microbial producers is presented, including their development and scale-up. Bottlenecks that currently hinder microbial EPS development are identified, along with future prospects for further advancement.
bacteria, Extremophiles, exopolysaccharide (EPS), fungi, mixed microbial consortia
Structure type: homopolymer ; 50000-2000000
Location inside paper: Table 1 (Curdlan)
Trivial name: curdlan
Compound class: EPS, glucan
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_1397514,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_153543,IEDB_158555,IEDB_161166,IEDB_2278476,IEDB_2278477,IEDB_558869,IEDB_857743,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Related record ID(s): 41611, 43166, 43167, 43168, 43169, 43170, 43171, 43172, 43173, 43174, 43175, 43176, 43177, 43178, 43179, 43180, 43181
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 357,
507Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G51056AN
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