Other Biotechnological Applications

Ruiz-Velasco et al. also investigated the effects of over-sulfated exopolysaccharides, in comparison to the native EPS, produced by Alteromonas infemus on the bone 

Recently, because the capacity of EPSs to establish polymeric matrices enables their in-vitro manipulation to create novel structures in which bioactive compounds are encapsulated, new applications are being developed in drug delivery systems [130,131]. 

A further interesting biotechnological application of natural polysaccharides is in the development and design of new biomaterial. Natural biopolymers possess the capacity to establish chemical and physical intramolecular interactions, resulting in a cohesive polymeric matrix able to form biofilms. These biofilms show specific properties (mechanical and barrier properties, transparency, biodegradability and biocompatibility) that make them suitable for applications in edible coating for food products and 

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One has therefore to hope that future work on archaebacterial DNA polymerases will not be exclusively concerned with the interest of these enzymes for PCR and other biotechnological applications. Further work is also required to determine the molecular mechanisms and the nature of the other proteins involved in replication and repair of archaebacterial genomes such as DNA ligases, helicases and so on. 

Struck, A.-W., Thompson, M.L., Wong, L.S., and Micklefield, J. (2012) S-adenosyl-methionine-dependent methyltransferases highly versatile enzymes in biocatalysis, biosynthesis and other biotechnological applications. ChemBioChem, 13, 2642-2655. 

Smart polymers for bioseparation and other biotechnological applications... 

Lakowicz et al. [96] have studied luminescence spectral properties of CdS nanoparticles. They examined the steady state and time resolved luminescence spectral properties of two types of CdS nanoparticles. These results suggest that nanoparticles can provide a new class of luminophores for use in chemical sensing, DNA sequencing, high throughput screening and other biotechnology applications. 

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