How can we isolate exopolysaccharide content from cyanobacterial strains?

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Ankur Das

You can follow the following paper where they have compared different methodologies for EPS extraction

Article Production, extraction and characterization of microalgal an...

Michael Kohlstedt

Dear Nilamjyoti,

in one of our studies we used the sulfamate-biphenyl method to isolate/detach and quantify alginate from Pseudomonas aeruginosa which might also work for cyanobacteria:

Article Robustness and Plasticity of Metabolic Pathway Flux among Ur...

Supplementary information: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088368.s006

Good luck

Michael