Professional health bodies such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) …

Levan, a versatile fructan, possesses promising prospects for application in the food and
pharmaceutical industries and in many other fields due to the superior physicochemical …

Levan is a polysaccharide composed of fructose units with β-2, 6-glycoside bonds.
Microorganisms synthesize levan by levansucrase as a mixture of low-and high-molecular …

World-wide, pathogenic fungi such as Botrytis cinerea cause tremendous yield losses in
terms of food production and post-harvest food decay. Many fungi produce inulin-type …

Levan is a fructose homopolymer obtained from both plants and microorganisms. Microbial
levan is typically produced in a variety of molecular weights (MW). Previous studies have …

Peptic ulcer is one of the worldwide diseases where 10% of adults are affected by peptic
ulcers at least once in their lifetime. The goal of this study was to evaluate the effect of levan …

Nowadays, levan synthesis and its biocatalysis is a step claiming attention due to its
promising uses in biomedical field. Levansucrase, as the enzyme responsible of levan …

Fructans are water-soluble polymers of fructose in which fructose units are linked by β-(2→
1) and/or β-(2→ 6) linkages. In plants, they are synthesized in the vacuole but have also …

In this study, levan biopolymer (a fructose-based exopolysaccharide) was produced by
Paenibacillus polymyxa HCT33-3, which was immobilized onto the composite of silica …

Among other polysaccharides, levan is a fructan with great potential in biotechnological
applications due to its functional properties. The levan has only been available in small …