TUM Library

Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to First Edition -- Preface to Second Edition -- Chapter 1: Polysaccharides and Their Potential for Biotechnology -- 1.1 An Introduction to Polysaccharides -- 1.2 The Potential for Biotechnology -- Further Reading -- Specific References -- Chapter 2: Structural Polysaccharides -- 2.1 Pectin -- 2.2 Cellulose and Hemicelluloses -- 2.3 Xylans and Xylanases -- 2.4 The Gum Mannans: Locust Bean Gum, Guar and Konjac Mannan -- 2.5 Gum Exudates -- 2.6 Glycosaminoglycans -- Further Reading -- Specific References -- Chapter 3: Pectic Polysaccharides and Bioactivity -- 3.1 Structural Aspects of Pectins -- 3.2 Pectic Polysaccharides as Immunomodulators -- 3.3 Pectic Polysaccharides and Importance for Diseases in Mali -- 3.4 Structure and Bioactivity of Pectic Polysaccharides from Malian Medicinal Plants -- 3.5 Discussion and Summary -- Further Reading -- Specific References -- Chapter 4: Storage Polysaccharides: Starch and Fructans -- 4.1 Starch -- 4.2 Glycogen -- 4.3 Minor Storage Polysaccharides -- 4.4 Fructans: Inulin and Levan -- Further Reading -- Specific References -- Chapter 5: Marine Polysaccharides -- 5.1 Alginates and Brown Seaweed -- 5.2 Carrageenans and Red Seaweed -- 5.3 Agar and Agarose -- 5.4 Fucoidans/Fucose-Containing Sulphated Polysaccharides -- 5.5 Chitosan and Chitin Derivatives -- Further Reading -- Specific References -- Chapter 6: Some Bacterial and Synthetic Polysaccharides -- 6.1 Biotechnology -- 6.2 Bacterial Alginates -- 6.3 Xanthan -- 6.4 Pullulan -- 6.5 Gellan, XM6 and Curdlan -- 6.6 Dextrans -- 6.7 Cyclodextrins -- 6.8 Scleroglucan and Schizophyllan -- 6.9 Synthetic Polysaccharides: Use of Enzymes -- 6.10 Polysaccharide and Glycoconjugate Vaccines -- Further Reading -- Specific References -- Index.

Polysaccharides and related high molecular weight glycans are hugely diverse with wide application in Biotechnology and great opportunities for further exploitation. An Introduction to Polysaccharide Biotechnology a second edition of the popular original text by Tombs and Harding introduces students, researchers, clinicians and industrialists to the properties of some of the key materials involved, how these are applied, some of the economic factors concerning their production and how they are characterized for regulatory purposes.