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Microbial Glucuronans and Succinoglycans

Structures, Properties, and Enzymes Acting About Them

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Polysaccharides of Microbial Origin

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Glucuronan and succinoglycan are two anionic exopoysaccharides produced by some soil bacteria and abundantly published by the community working on high valuable hydrocolloids. The glucuronan is a linear homopolymer of β-(1,4)-d-glucuronic acids sometimes subsituted by O-acetyl, whereas succinoglycan is a ramified heteropolymer of β-(1,6) and β-(1,4) and β-(1,3)-linked O-pyruvylated, O-succinylated and sometimes O-acetylated d-glucoses and d-galactoses. These unique structural features give to these two polysaccharides original physicochemical and rheological properties investigated in 1980s and 1990s. However, contrary to some other microbial polysaccharides, they have known a poor commercial success as texturing agent. The reasons of this “defeat” is difficult to analyze but is probably linked to the technical and economic competitions of other plant, seaweeds, and microbial hydrocolloids. This chapter aims to do the state of the art on structures, production, and rheological properties of these two polysaccharides but also on enzymes acting about them.

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  1. Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    P. Dubessay, A. V. Ursu, C. Delattre, G. Pierre & P. Michaud

  2. PDPIAS, CHARUSAT University, Anand, India

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  3. Department of food science and technology, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India

    D. Kavitake & P. H. Shetty

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Dubessay, P. et al. (2021). Microbial Glucuronans and Succinoglycans. In: Oliveira, J., Radhouani, H., Reis, R.L. (eds) Polysaccharides of Microbial Origin. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35734-4_8-1

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