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Microbial Polysaccharides as Advance Nanomaterials

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The microorganisms offer great amounts of polysaccharides in the presence of additional carbon source. Certain polysaccharides serve as storage compounds. The polysaccharides excreted by the cells, called as exopolysaccharides, are of industrial importance. The exopolysaccharides may be reported in association with the cells or may remain in the medium. The microbial polysaccharides may be neutral (e.g. dextran, scleroglucan) or acidic (xanthan, gellan) in nature. Acidic polysaccharides possessing ionized groups such as carboxyl, which can function as polyelectrolytes, are commercially more important. These emerging microbial polysaccharides are recently explored as nano-materials for diverse biomedical applications. This chapter emphasize on nano-applications of microbial polysaccharides in diverse discipline of biomedical science.

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