Pullulan: Processing, Properties, and Applications

ISBN-13: 9789814877176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 286 str.

Shakeel Ahmed; Aisverya Soundararajan

Opis

Pullulan is a polysaccharide of economic importance and can find potential applications in food, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and several other industries. This book discusses its chemistry, processing, properties, and various applications along with its production at the laboratory level.

Spis treści

1. Polysaccharides: An Overview  2. Pullulan: Recent Progress and Technological Prospects  3. Synthesis of Pullulan  4. Factors Affecting Pullulan Production  5. Pullulan: Properties and Applications  6. Functional Characteristics of Pullulan: An Overview of Its Physicochemical and Physiological Properties  7. Pullulan-Degrading Enzymes and Their Biochemical Features  8. Microbial Pullulan: Properties, Bioprocess Engineering, and Applications  9. Transformation of an Aureobasidium Pullulan Synthetase Gene into Saccharomyces cerevisiae  10. Role of Pullulans in Cosmetics  11. Biomedical Applications of Pullulan