Microbial heteropolysaccharide
US4329448A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 7, 1980 |
| Grant date | May 11, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 7, 2000 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S507/936
- WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
An heteropolysaccharide known as Biopolymer PS 87 comprises glucose, galactose, mannose, glucuronic acid and fucose. Biopolymer PS 87 is pseudoplastic, has a consistency at 20.degree. C. of at least 150 poise and a yield stress value at 20.degree. C. of at least 30 dynes/cm.sup.2. Biopolymer PS 87 is synthesised by a strain of Bacillus polymyxa or a genetically similar micro-organism and has many domestic and industrial uses as a suspending agent or thickener.
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