Prebiotics are a group of nutrients that are degraded by gut microbiota. Their relationship
with human overall health has been an area of increasing interest in recent years. They can …

Glycans, carbohydrate molecules in the realm of biology, are present as biomedically
important glycoconjugates and a characteristic aspect is that their structures in many …

Prebiotics are a group of biological nutrients that are capable of being degraded by
microflora in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), primarily Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria. When …

Probiotics and prebiotics play an important role in human nutrition. In recent years there has
been a significant increase in research on the characterization and verification potential …

Prebiotics are either natural or synthetic non-digestible (non-) carbohydrate substances that
boost the proliferation of gut microbes. Undigested fructooligosaccharides in the large …

The ongoing trends to process improvements, cost reductions and increasing quality, safety,
health and environment requirements of industrial chemical transformations have …

Worldwide interest in oligosaccharides has been increasing ever since they were accorded
the prebiotic status. The oligosaccharides of various origin like, bacteria, algae, fungi and …

Glycosylation is a chemical transformation that is centrally important in all glycoscience and
related technologies. Catalysts offering good control over reactivity and selectivity in …

Abstract Sucrose synthase (SuSy, EC 2.4. 1.13) is a glycosyltransferase (GT) long known
from plants and more recently discovered in bacteria. The enzyme catalyzes the reversible …

Human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) are almost unique constituents of breast milk and are
not found in appreciable amounts in cow milk. Due to several positive aspects of HMO for …