Extracellular Polysaccharides of some Basidiomycetes

Anti-cancer effect of polysaccharides isolated from higher basidiomycetes mushrooms

This article is written in memory of Professor Takashi Mizuno who died in May 2000. He had focused a lifetime of research upon development of various antitumor substances from medicinal mushrooms, and is considered one of the 20 century greatest scientist in his field. Mizuno proved that many polysaccharides with antitumor and immunopotentiating qualities were synthesised in cultured mycelia no...

Extracellular polysaccharides of Penicillium vermiculatum.

Extracellular Polysaccharide, Isolation, Characterization Extracellular polysaccharide mixture that forms a viscous mucilate in the fermentation medium during industrial cultivation of Penicillium vermiculatum was isolated by ethanol precipitation and its structural characteristics were investigated by a combination of physicochemical methods. The mixture contained two structurally different po...

OLIgo Mass Profiling (OLIMP) of Extracellular Polysaccharides

The direct contact of cells to the environment is mediated in many organisms by an extracellular matrix. One common aspect of extracellular matrices is that they contain complex sugar moieties in form of glycoproteins, proteoglycans, and/or polysaccharides. Examples include the extracellular matrix of humans and animal cells consisting mainly of fibrillar proteins and proteoglycans or the polys...

Electrophoresis of some neutral polysaccharides.

Microbial Production of Extracellular Polysaccharides from Biomass

The interest in polysaccharides has increased considerably in recent years, as they are candidates for many commercial applications in different industrial sectors like food, petroleum, and pharmaceuticals. Because of their costly production processes, industrial microbial polysaccharides like xanthan, dextran, curdlan, gellan, and pullulan constitute only a minor fraction of the current polyme...