Kawaguchi T, Decho A W
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208, USA.
Prep Biochem Biotechnol. 2000 Nov;30(4):321-30. doi: 10.1080/10826060008544971.
A range of biochemical characterizations were used to examine the extracellular polymeric secretions (EPS) of two cyanobacteria, Synechocystis sp. and Oscillatoria sp., isolated from marine stromatolites, Bahamas. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis was successfully used to fractionate proteins in EPS. The results suggest that cyanobacterial EPS is composed of a network of macromolecules having different biochemical properties, which may contribute to extracellular functions.
