Published on in “Business, Business”, language — English. 5 pages.
Dextran was discovered by Louis Pasteur as a bacterial product in wine but mass production was only possible after the development by Allene Jeanes of a process using bacteria. Dextran is now synthesized from sucrose by certain lactic acid bacteria, the best-known being Leucon Stoc meteoroids and Streptococcus mutants. Dental plaque is rich in dextran’s. More
