Industrial polysaccharides

R. Moothouse, in M. Yalpani, ed.. Industrial Polysaccharides Genetic Engineering, Structure Property delations and Applications, Elsevier Science PubHshets BV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1987. 

Figure 7.11 Restriction map of Xanthomonas campestris xanthan gene cluster. Adapted from R W Vanderslice at at. Genetic engineering of polysaccharide structure In Xanthomonas campestris. In Biomedical and Biotechnological Advances In Industrial Polysaccharides, 1989, Gordon and Breach N Y.

Lapasin R, Pricl S (1995) Rheology of Industrial Polysaccharides. Theory and Applications. Blackie, London... 

Volume 3 Modifications and Applications of Industrial Polysaccharides (Yalpani, Editor)... 

D. A. Brant and T. A. Talashek, in Industrial Polysaccharides The Impact of Biotechnology and Advanced Methodologies, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New York (1987). 

Moorhouse, R. In Industrial Polysaccharides Genetic Engineering, Structure/Property Relations and Applications ... 

Further work dealt with the tetragonal form. A 4 helix was assumed based on the crystallographic result (16). Agreement with the experimental data was better for the and polyanions than for the models (Ferro, D. R. et al., 3rd International Workshop Recent Developments in Industrial Polysaccharides Trieste (Italy) 1988, Crescenzi, V. ed., in press). 

Polysaccharides were the first group of polymers considered. Dextrans, polymers of glucose synthesized from sucrose, are Important Industrial polysaccharides ( ) ... 

M. Yalpani, ed., Industrial Polysaccharides, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1987. 

HPLC has been adapted to industrial polysaccharides (Barth and Reg-nier, 1981), e.g., guar (Barth and Smith, 1981), starch (Kobayashi et al., 1985), polydextrose (Thomas et al., 1990), pectin (Schols et al., 1989), and other anionic gums (Voragen et al., 1982). Baseline separation is limited to DP =10 (Chester and Innis, 1986), which is more the size of an oligosaccharide than a polysaccharide. Separations to DP = 30 are possible under special conditions (Praznik et al., 1984). 

Dea, I. C. M. (1987). The role of structural modification in controlling polysaccharide functionality. In Industrial Polysaccharides Genetic Engineering, Structure /Property Relations and Applications, Yalpini, I. (Ed.), pp. 207-216. Elsevier, Amsterdam/New York. 

R. Lapasin and S. Pricl. Rheology of Industrial Polysaccharides Theory and Applications , Blackie Academic and Professional, Glasgow, Scotland, 1995... 

Fishman, M.L. Pepper, L.A. Reconcilation of the Differences in Number Average Molecular Weights (M) By End Group Titration and Osmometry for Low Methoxy Pectins. In "New Developements in Industrial Polysaccharides" Dea, I.M. Crescenzi, V. and Stivala T. Ed. Gordon and Breach New York, 1985 pp 159-166. 

Polysaccharides are widely applied in the food industry as thickeners, texturisers and stabilisers. Outside the food industry, polysaccharides are used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, detergents, textiles, adhesives, paper, paint and oil recovery. Many polysaccharides with different structures are available, but often they do not have the properties that are desired for a certain application. As the functional properties of a polysaccharide depend on its primary structure, specific modification of the structure can result in a polysaccharide with desired properties. 

Recent volumes of Carbohydrate Research have been issued in honour of various persons with international reputations in carbohydrate chemistry and their achievements, viz. Professor Kurt Heyns and his work on carbohydrate Amadori rearrangements in relation to proteins, and Professor Roy L. Whistler and his work on, inter alia, industrial polysaccharides. ... 

Specifically, some hemicelluloses from plants and higher plants are a potential source of industrial polysaccharides. The pharmaceutical industry has benefitted from such diversity of biomaterials and has exploited the use of natural products as sources of both drugs and excipients. One example of a promising biomaterial for pharmaceutical use is xylan, a hemicellulose largely found in nature and considered the second most abundant polysaccharide after cellulose [41, 43]. Melo et al. [31] have reported research on the activity of antioxidant, antimicroba, and anticoagulant from corn cobs xylan. 

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