Excellent Gellan Gum with High Quality

• CAS No.: 578-86-9
• Color: White
• Appearance: Granule
• Transport Package: Paper
• Specification: large
• Trademark: china
• Origin: China
• HS Code: 2801100000
• Production Capacity: 5000kg/Year

Product Description

Gellan gum is a water-soluble anionic exopolysaccharide produced by bacteria from the Sphingomonas group. The gellan gum has been broadly used in biomedical applications since the FDA approval in 1992 for its biocompatibility and low cytotoxicity. The gellan gum chains can interlock with each other and form a coherent network that entraps a very high (∼99%) volume fraction of water. Similar to alginate, the junction zones of gellan gum networks could be crosslinked by multivalent cations, commonly Ca²⁺ or Mg²⁺, and form a hydrogel at low temperatures. There have been many studies using gellan gum mixed with other biomaterials as a bioink for bone and cartilage bioprinting (Akkineni et al., 2016; Mouser et al., 2016). A recent study synthesized gellan gum and PLGA into copolymers as the bioink for cartilage bioprinting Gellan gum is a water-soluble anionic exopolysaccharide produced by bacteria from the Sphingomonas group. The gellan gum has been broadly used in biomedical applications since the FDA approval in 1992 for its biocompatibility and low cytotoxicity. The gellan gum chains can interlock with each other and form a coherent network that entraps a very high (∼99%) volume fraction of water. Similar to alginate, the junction zones of gellan gum networks could be crosslinked by multivalent cations, commonly Ca²⁺ or Mg²⁺, and form a hydrogel at low temperatures. There have been many studies using gellan gum mixed with other biomaterials as a bioink for bone and cartilage bioprinting (Akkineni et al., 2016; Mouser et al., 2016). A recent study synthesized gellan gum and PLGA into copolymers as the bioink for cartilage bioprinting (Pitarresi et al., 2020).