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Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) play a pivotal role in many processes (Costerton 1985). Often their importance is not fully known. One of these processes, in which we recently started to appreciate the role of EPS for its function, is the biological leaching of precious metals and its detrimental effect on acid mine/rock drainage.
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Sand, W., Gehrke, T. (1999). Analysis and Function of the EPS from the Strong Acidophile Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. In: Wingender, J., Neu, T.R., Flemming, HC. (eds) Microbial Extracellular Polymeric Substances. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60147-7_7
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