Curdlan Production by Agrobacterium radiobacter and Wide Array of Its Applications in Medicine

Chetan H. Godale; Archana S. Injal

Volume : VI, Issue : II, February - 2016

Curdlan Production by Agrobacterium radiobacter and Wide Array of Its Applications in Medicine

Chetan H. Godale, Archana S. Injal

Abstract :

In this study, we carried out curdlan production from Agrobacterium radiobacter [NCIM 2443] bacterial strain. This strain produces two types of colonies viz… white & blue colonies on Aniline blue media plates. In which white colonies are succinoglucan producers & are heteropolysaccharides which are water soluble & Blue colonies are β–[1→3] glucan producers & are homopolysaccharides which are water insoluble. Blue colonies were the curdlan producers by which curdlan production carried out. Further, chemical mutagenesis with Ethidium omide [EtBr] was also carried out for high production of curdlan. FTIR and UV–Vis–Spectrophometry also carried out to analyze curdlan.