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Production of Extracellula Polysaccharides by Candida mucifera

J. Daniš, A. Kardošová, and E. Sláviková

Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, CS-842 38 Bratislava

Abstract: Candida mucifera, CCY 29-170-1, when cultured in liquid media with various carbon sources, produced D-mannose-dominating extracellular polysaccharides; the only exception was the medium with beer wort, where the dominating sugar component was D-glucose. All the polysaccharides were heterogeneous upon electrophoresis. The protein moiety in the polysaccharides varied from 3 to 16 % and the content of phosphorus from 0.5 to 1.1 %. The lowest limiting viscosity number (14 cm³ g^-1) was found with the D-glucose-dominating polysaccharide and the highest one (67 cm³ g^-1) with the D-mannose-dominating polysaccharide.

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Chemical Papers 46 (2) 123–126 (1992)