The Complex World of Polysaccharides
http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2947
Edited by Desiree Nedra Karunaratne
Contributors
Susana P. Miranda Castro, Eva G. Lizárraga Paulín, Stefan Kwiatkowski, Stefan Edgar
Kwiatkowski, Rosa Eugenia Reyes, Carolina Romo González, Rafael Coria Jiménez, Maribel
Ortiz Herrera, Alejandra Aquino Andrade, Tanya V. Ivashina, Vladimir N. Ksenzenko, Shauna L.
Reckseidler-Zenteno, Natalya Nikolaevna Trofimova, Elena Nikolaevna Medvedeva, Nadezhda
Viktorovna Ivanova, Yuriy Alekseevich Malkov, Vasiliy Anatolievich Babkin, Mona A. Esawy,
Eman F. Ahmed, Wafaa A. Helmy, Nahla M. Mansour, Waled M. El-Senousy, Mounir M. El-
Safty, Desiree Nedra Karunaratne, R.G.U. Jayalal, V. Karunaratne, Richard A. Cunha, Thereza A.
Soares, Victor H. Rusu, Frederico J.S. Pontes, Eduardo F. Franca, Roberto D. Lins, Aleksandr N.
Zimnitskii, V. Poinsot, M.A. Carpéné, F. Couderc, Ranieri Urbani, Paola Sist, Galja Pletikapić,
Tea Mišić Radić, Vesna Svetličić, Vera Žutić, Pierre Lembre, Cécile Lorentz, Patrick Di Martino,
Amit K. Ghosh, Prasun Bandyopadhyay, Alireza Alishahi, Rosa M. Raybaudi-Massilia, Jonathan
Mosqueda-Melgar, Marina Dello Staffolo, Alicia E. Bevilacqua, María Susana Rodríguez, Liliana
Albertengo, María Victoria Busi, Mariana Martín, Diego F. Gomez-Casati, Edmund M. K. Lui,
Chike G. Azike, José A. Guerrero-Analco, Ahmad A. Romeh,
Hua Pei, Sherif J. Kaldas, John T.
Arnason, Paul A. Charpentier, María Josefina Carlucci, Cecilia Gabriela Mateu, María Carolina
Artuso, Luis Alberto Scolaro, Mohit S. Verma, Frank X. Gu, A. V. Dushkin, T. G. Tolstikova, M.
V. Khvostov, G. A. Tolstikov, Máira Regina Rodrigues, Alexandre de Souza e Silva, Fábio Vieira
Lacerda, Dodi Safari, Ger Rijkers, Harm Snippe
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Contents
Preface IX
Section 1
Sources and Biological Properties of Polysaccharides 1
Chapter 1
Is Chitosan a New Panacea? Areas of Application 3
Susana P. Miranda Castro and Eva G. Lizárraga Paulín
Chapter 2
Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) Glucan Polysaccharides –
Occurrence, Separation and Application
in Food, Feed and Health Industries 47
Stefan Kwiatkowski and Stefan Edgar Kwiatkowski
Chapter 3
Mechanisms of O-Antigen Structural Variation
of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) 71
Rosa Eugenia Reyes, Carolina Romo González, Rafael Coria
Jiménez, Maribel Ortiz Herrera and Alejandra Aquino Andrade
Chapter 4
Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis in Rhizobium
leguminosarum: From Genes to Functions 99
Tanya V. Ivashina and Vladimir N. Ksenzenko
Chapter 5
Capsular Polysaccharides Produced by
the Bacterial Pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei 127
Shauna L. Reckseidler-Zenteno
Chapter 6
Polysaccharides from Larch Biomass 153
Natalya Nikolaevna Trofimova, Elena Nikolaevna Medvedeva,
Nadezhda Viktorovna Ivanova, Yuriy Alekseevich Malkov
and Vasiliy Anatolievich Babkin
Chapter 7
Antiviral Levans from Bacillus spp. Isolated from Honey 195
Mona A. Esawy, Eman F. Ahmed, Wafaa A. Helmy,
Nahla M. Mansour, Waled M. El-Senousy and Mounir M. El-Safty
Chapter 8
Lichen Polysaccharides 215
Desiree Nedra Karunaratne, R.G.U. Jayalal and V. Karunaratne