Properties of an extracellular polysaccharide produced by a strain of enterobacter isolated from pond water.
A bacterium which was isolated from pond water and identified as Enterobacter cloacae produced a viscous extracellular polysaccharide when it was grown aerobically in a medium containing sucrose as a sole source of carbon. The maximum molecular weight of the polysaccharide was about 9.0 x 10(5). The polysaccharide was composed of fucose, galactose, glucose, and glucuronic acid in a molar ratio of 2:3:2:1, but the molecular weight and the molar ratio of the sugar component were different from those of the polysaccharide produced by the same species reported elsewhere.
Isobe
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Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Nara Women's University, Japan. isobe@edu.mie-u.ac.jp
Matsumoto
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Yokoigawa
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Kawai
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D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D003470:Culture Media; D004754:Enterobacter / Q000737:chemistry*; D005618:Fresh Water; D006868:Hydrolysis; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014783:Viscosity; D014871:Water Microbiology
D003470:Culture Media; D011134:Polysaccharides