“…The EPSs like LAS are soluble and secreted into the growth medium during Smf and are easily collected by precipitation with ethanol, making their separation easier and cheaper than extractive processes for glucans from fungal fruiting bodies or yeast cell walls (Kagimura et al, 2015). Crude fungal EPSs can be obtained as a vacuum-dried or lyophilized powder after dialysis for the solubilized EPS against water (Cohen & Merzendorfer, 2019;da Silva Fonseca et al, 2020;Kagimura et al, 2015). (Natalia A.…”