“…The naturally occurring EPSs are abundant, readily available, biodegradable, and potentially non-toxic ( Moscovici, 2015 ; Bhatia, 2016 ). EPSs have found a vast range of applications in nanotechnology, like green synthesis of metal nanoparticles ( Kanmani and Lim, 2013 ; Sathiyanarayanan et al, 2017 ), hydrogel ( Na et al, 2000 ; Maiti et al, 2011 ; Koop et al, 2015 ), coating materials ( Jang et al, 2013 ; You et al, 2014 ; Bondarenko et al, 2016 ), stabilizers ( Dey et al, 2016 ), nanoparticles ( Wang et al, 2013 ; Guo et al, 2014 ; Zhang et al, 2016 ), capping agents ( Wu et al, 2012 ; Yan et al, 2015 ). Even more, EPS can self-assembled into different nanostructures like nanofibers ( Xu et al, 2013 ; Chen et al, 2016 ) and nanoparticles ( Li et al, 2017 ), which could be employed as promising bio-active carriers for DNA ( Liu et al, 2014 , 2015 ), protein ( Takahashi et al, 2014 ), and drug ( Takedatsu et al, 2012 ).…”