Levan is a fascinating β-(2, 6)-linked fructose polymer with an unusual combination of
properties characterized in this review. In nature, levan is synthesized from sucrose by a …

Levan and inulin are two types of fructan. Levan is composed of β-(2, 6) fructosyl linkage
and inulin is composed of β-(2, 1) linkage. Both levan and inulin have been accepted and …

In this study, twelve strains of acetic acid bacteria (AAB) belonging to five different genera
were tested for their ability to produce levan, at 70 and 250 g/L of sucrose concentration …

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 …

This review is the eighth update of the original article published in 1999 on the application of
Matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI) mass spectrometry …

Levansucrase (LS, EC 2.4. 1.10) catalyzes the synthesis of levan by successively
transferring the fructosyl moiety from sucrose to an elongated fructan chain. Although the …

Abstract Inulosucrase (EC 2.4. 1.9) is a bacterial fructosyltransferase that synthesizes inulin-
type fructooligosaccharide, using sucrose as a substrate. We modulated the size of …

Levansucrase catalyzes three distinct reactions depending on the fructosyl acceptor
molecule, including polymerization, transfructosylation, and hydrolysis. As a key biocatalyst …

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron is commonly found in the human colon and stabilizes its
ecosystem by catabolism of various polysaccharides. A model of cross-talk between the …

Levansucrases are members of the glycoside hydrolase family and catalyse both the
hydrolysis of the substrate sucrose and the transfer of fructosyl units to acceptor molecules …