Table 1.

Macromolecular composition of EPS extracted from S. maltophilia strains.

Strains	EPS (μg EPS/mg Biomass)	Chemical analysis of EPS*
		Carbohydrates (mg glc/mg EPS)	Proteins (mg proteins/mg EPS)	Carbohydrate/Protein (mg glc/mg protein)
K279a	64.9 ± 3.3	0.25 ± 0.02	0.49 ± 0.03	0.51
F60	201.1 ± 38.0	0.26 ± 0.05	0.52 ± 0.05	0.50

Results represent the mean ± standard deviation of one representative experiment.

^*Carbohydrates and proteins were determined by the phenol-sulfuric acid method (Dubois et al., 1956) and the Bradford method (Bradford, 1976), respectively.