Polysaccharides [electronic resource] : bioactivity and biotechnology / Kishan Gopal Ramawat, Jean-Michel Mérillon, editors.
Ramawat, K. G., editor.; Merillon, J. M., editor.
2015
QD321 .P65 2015eb
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Polysaccharides [electronic resource] : bioactivity and biotechnology / Kishan Gopal Ramawat, Jean-Michel Mérillon, editors.
ISBN
9783319162980 electronic book
3319162985 electronic book
9783319162973
9783319162997 print and electronic bundle
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16298-0
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Cham : Springer, 2015.
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English
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1 online resource (xxviii, 2241 pages) : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-3-319-16298-0 doi
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QD321 .P65 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
572/.566
Summary
This authoritative reference work presents comprehensive information about one of the most important and most wide-spread classes of (bio)organic compounds: the polysaccharides. The comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date handbook presents the sources, identification, analysis, biosynthesis, biotechnology and applications of important polysaccharides likes starches, cellulose, chitin, gum and microbial polysaccharides. Polysaccharides can exhibit complex structure and various functional activities. These bio macromolecules can therefore serve as raw materials for various different materials, e.g. rayon, cellulose acetate, celluloid and nitrocellulose; and they find multiple applications, for instance as surgical threads (chitin), as sources of energy, dietary fibers, as blood flow adjuvants, in cosmetics, emulsion stabilizers, film formers, binders, viscosity increasing agents or skin conditioning agenta, as food additives in gums, chewing gum bases and as vaccines. Polysaccharides form the basis for useful products, like xanthan gum, dextran, welan gum, gellan gum, diutan gum and pullulan. Some of the polysaccharide-derived products have interesting and useful properties and show biological activities, such as immunomodulatory, antibacterial, anti-mutagenic, radioprotective, anti-oxidative, anti-ulcer, antidepressant, anti-septicaemic or anti-inflammatory activities. All these applications and properties of polysaccharides are for the first time compiled in a thorough and comprehensive overview in the present work. This reference work is organized thematically in four parts: Part I. Polysaccharides: Occurrence, Structure, Distribution and Biotechnology. Part II. Methods. Part III. Bioactive Polysaccharides. Part IV. Polysaccharides as Food. This reference work is edited by experienced experts, all chapters are written by well recognized international specialists. It is useful to all those working in the field of botany, phytochemistry, pharmacy, drug delivery, molecular biology, metabolomics, forestry, environment, conservation, biotechnology and NGOs working for forest protection.
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Part I Polysaccharides: Occurrence, Structure, Distribution and Biotechnology
Polysaccharides: an introduction (overview)
Bacterial polysaccharides
Fungal polysaccharides
Polysaccharides from lower plants
Polysaccharides from higher plants
Biosynthesis of polysaccharides
Life cycle assessment of polysaccharide materials
Polysaccharides: applications in biotechnology
Polysaccharides production by submerged fermentation
Fed-batch fermentation of Tuber melanosporum for the hyperproduction of mycelia and bioactive tuber polysaccharides
Production of polysaccharide from Agaricus subrufescens Peck on solid-state fermentation
In vitro fermentation and prebiotic potential of novel low molecular weight polysaccharides derived from agar and alginate seaweeds
Biopolymers from marine prokaryotes
Carrageenan biotechnology
Dextrans : biotechnology and applications
Polysaccharide nanocrystals in future functional nanomaterials
Extracellular polysaccharides from cyanobacterial soil crusts
Polysaccharide complexes with metal cations: Structure and application
Modified gums: Approaches and applications in drug delivery
Part II Methods
Method for deproteinization of bioactive polysaccharides
Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction of water-soluble components and polysaccharides from medicinal fungi
Quantification of polysaccharides in red wines and effect of wine-making techniques
Extraction methods for sulfated polysaccharides from brown seaweeds
Microwave synthesized polysaccharide copolymers
Analytical methods for lignocellulosic biomass structural polysaccharides
Polysaccharides as chiral selectors in capillary electrophoresis
Turning polysaccharides into new hydrophobic materials
Radiation processing of hydrogel and polysaccharide
Size-exclusion chromatography of polysaccharides
Surface properties of polysaccharides
Polysaccharide based biopolymers as an ecofriendly alternative for synthetic polymers
NMR spectroscopy of polysaccharide derivatives and their molecular structure
Biological analysis of hetero-oligosaccharides
Mass spectrometric characterization of oligo- and polysaccharides and their derivatives
Part III Bioactive Polysaccharides
Polysaccharides: applications in biology and biotechnology
Polysaccharides: applications in medicine
Polysaccharide -polypeptide conjugates and immunostimulant properties
Bioactive polysaccharide from Ganoderma
Bioactive polysaccharide of Aloe
Extraction, structure and bioactivities of the polysaccharides from fructus
Polysaccharides from medicinal mushrooms and their antitumor activities
Polysaccharides from the fungus Scleroderma
Antioxidant activities of polysaccharides from the endophytic fungus Berk
Algal polysaccharides and health
Sulfated polysaccharides (fucose rich) from brown seaweeds and biological activities
Anticancer polysaccharides from natural source or mushroom
Modified polysaccharides as drug delivery
Natural polysaccharide hydrogels to control drug release
Plant polysaccharides and their biological activities
Tea polysaccharides and their bioactivities
Chitosan-based polysaccharide biomaterials
Gut microbia, host health and polysaccharides
Marine polysaccharide matrices for encapsulation of vaccines in aquaculture
Part IV Polysaccharides as Food
Polysaccharides: structural (pectins, cellulose, xylans, gum, gumexudates, glycosamines)
Polysaccharides: storage (starch, glycogens, fructans, guar gum, minor polysaccharides)
Marine Polysaccharides (alginate and brown sea weeds, carrageenan and red sea weeds, agar, agarose, chitosan and chitin derivatives)
Bacterial and synthetic polysaccharides (dextrans, cyclodextrins, gellans, xanthan, pullulan)
Extracellular polysaccharides of microorganisms
Pectin
An emerging new bioactive food polysaccharide
Polysaccharides from boat-fruited Sterculia seeds/plant
Polysaccharides from Zizyphus
Cell wall polysaccharides from fern leaves: Evidence for a mannan-rich Type III cell wall in Adiantum raddianum
Non-starch polysaccharides and their role in animal nutrition
Health-promoting potential of edible mushroom polysaccharides
Cell wall polysaccharides hydrolysis and malting barley quality
Dietary polysaccharides and immune modulation
Dietary fiber polysaccharides
Milk protein
polysaccharide complexes and applications
Inulin and health benefits
Polysaccharides from shiitake mushrooms (Lentinula edodes) as a component of functional food.

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