Authors
Triinu Visnapuu, Karin Mardo, Tiina Alamäe
Publication date
2015/12/25
Source
New Biotechnology
Volume
32
Issue
6
Pages
597-605
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Inulin and inulin-type fructooligosaccharides from plants are prebiotic.
- Fructans with β-2, 6 linkage have a potential as novel and effective prebiotics.
- Levansucrases from pseudomonads produce fructooligosaccharides and polymeric levan.
- Levansucrase Lsc3 is stable and efficient catalyst for fructan synthesis.
- Structure–function studies of Lsc3 have revealed catalysis-related positions.
Gut microbiota influences more physiological and developmental processes of humans and animals than earlier expected. Therefore, the possibility to shape the composition and activity of this bacterial population by prebiotics becomes especially important. Inulin, a β-2, 1 linked fructan polymer, from plants and fructooligosaccharides (FOS) derived from it are recognized and already widely used as prebiotics while β-2, 6 linked fructans have received much less attention from scientific community. In this mini-review, we will …
Scholar articles
T Visnapuu, K Mardo, T Alamäe - New Biotechnology, 2015