“…Also, dissolving the EPS lyophilizate in 0.3 M NaOH followed by centrifugation can help to eliminate extra contaminants (Notararigo et al, 2013). Final purification steps can also consist of ion-exchange chromatography (Behare et al, 2013;Ciszek-Lenda et al, 2013;Górska-Fr czek et al, 2013;Guo et al, 2013;Li et al, 2013Li et al, , 2014aShang et al, 2013;Zhang et al, 2013;Shao et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2014Wang et al, , 2015Fontana et al, 2015), size exclusion chromatography (Górska-Fr czek et al, 2013;Guo et al, 2013;Li et al, , 2014aNotararigo et al, 2013;Shang et al, 2013;Zhang et al, 2013;Miao et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2014Wang et al, , 2015, or preparative SDS-PAGE (Ruas-Madiedo and de los Reyes-Gavilán, 2005). These final purifications are less important when the ultimate aim is to quantify EPS production but more important when the recovered material is used for polysaccharide characterization (Rimada and Abraham, 2003).…”