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Extracellular Polysaccharides Produced by Yeasts and Yeast-Like Fungi

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Yeast Biotechnology: Diversity and Applications

Several yeasts and yeast-like fungi are known to produce extracellular polysaccharides. Most of these contain D-mannose, either alone or in combination with other sugars or phosphate. A large chemical and structural variability is found between yeast species and even among different strains. The types of polymers that are synthesized can be chemically characterized as mannans, glucans, phosphoman-nans, galactomannans, glucomannans and glucuronoxylomannans. Despite these differences, almost all of the yeast exopolysaccharides display some sort of biological activity. Some of them have already applications in chemistry, pharmacy, cosmetics or as probiotic. Furthermore, some yeast exopolysaccharides, such as pullulan, exhibit specific physico-chemical and rheological properties, making them useful in a wide range of technical applications. A survey is given here of the production, the characteristics and the application potential of currently well studied yeast extracellular polysaccharides.

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Van Bogaert, I.N.A., De Maeseneire, S.L., Vandamme, E.J. (2009). Extracellular Polysaccharides Produced by Yeasts and Yeast-Like Fungi. In: Satyanarayana, T., Kunze, G. (eds) Yeast Biotechnology: Diversity and Applications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8292-4_29

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