Exopolysaccharides (EPSs) are an important class of biopolymers with great ecological
importance. In natural environments, they are a common feature of microbial biofilms, where …

Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) are biopolymers secreted by microorganisms such
as bacteria, fungi, and algae that may play a significant role in the speciation, toxicity, and …

Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) have exhibited promising advantages in mitigating
heavy metal contamination, eg, single-valent silver (Ag (I)), trivalent gold (Au (III)), and …

Microbial carbonate mineralization is widespread in nature and among microorganisms, and
of vast ecological and geological importance. However, our understanding of the …

Background Cyanobacteria are ecologically significant prokaryotes that can be found in
heavy metals contaminated environments. As their photosynthetic machinery imposes high …

Background, aim, and scope Polysaccharides are renewable resources representing an
important class of polymeric materials of biotechnological interest, offering a wide variety of …

Towering up of heavy metal (HMs) contamination in varied natural ecosystems sensitize the
scientific community to think up of its remediation preferably with biosorbing components …

The effect of hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)) on extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) of
granular sludge was investigated in an aerobic granular sequencing batch reactor (GSBR) …

Chromium (Cr) is a highly toxic metal for microorganisms as well as plants and animal cells.
Due to its widespread industrial use, Cr has become a serious pollutant in diverse …

The EPS-producing Pseudoalteromonas sp. MER144 was selected among 606 isolates
from Antarctic seawater due to its evident slimy appearance on agar plates. The production …