A Highly Active Endo-Levanase BT1760 of a Dominant Mammalian Gut Commensal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Cleaves Not Only Various Bacterial Levans, but Also Levan of Timothy Grass

Review of Levan polysaccharide: From a century of past experiences to future prospects

(2016) Ebru Toksoy Öner et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Bacterial polysaccharide levan as stabilizing, non-toxic and functional coating material for microelement-nanoparticles

(2016) Olesja M. Bondarenko et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Sulfated levan from Halomonas smyrnensis as a bioactive, heparin-mimetic glycan for cardiac tissue engineering applications

(2016) Merve Erginer et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Levanase from Bacillus subtilis hydrolyses β-2,6 fructosyl bonds in bacterial levans and in grass fructans

(2016) Susanne L. Jensen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Functional characterization of a novel β-fructofuranosidase fromBifidobacterium longumsubsp.infantisATCC 15697 on structurally diverse fructans

(2016) Á. Ávila-Fernández et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Maltase protein ofOgataea (Hansenula) polymorphais a counterpart to the resurrected ancestor protein ancMALS of yeast maltases and isomaltases

(2016) Katrin Viigand et al.   YEAST

Differential Metabolism of Exopolysaccharides from Probiotic Lactobacilli by the Human Gut Symbiont Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron

(2015) Alicia Lammerts van Bueren et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacillus subtilis 168 levansucrase (SacB) activity affects average levan molecular weight

(2015) Jaime R. Porras-Domínguez et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Review on production, characterization and applications of microbial levan

(2015) Rapala Srikanth et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

The gut microbiota and host health: a new clinical frontier

(2015) Julian R Marchesi et al.   GUT

The fructanolytic abilities of the rumen bacteriumButyrivibrio fibrisolvensstrain 3071

(2015) A. Kasperowicz et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Effective stimulating factors for microbial levan production by Halomonas smyrnensis AAD6T

(2015) Hande Kazak Sarilmiser et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING

Levansucrases of a Pseudomonas syringae pathovar as catalysts for the synthesis of potentially prebiotic oligo- and polysaccharides

(2015) Triinu Visnapuu et al.   New Biotechnology

Cereal grain fructans: Structure, variability and potential health effects

(2015) Joran Verspreet et al.   TRENDS IN FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Levan Enhances Associated Growth of Bacteroides, Escherichia, Streptococcus and Faecalibacterium in Fecal Microbiota

(2015) Kaarel Adamberg et al.   PLoS One

Starving our Microbial Self: The Deleterious Consequences of a Diet Deficient in Microbiota-Accessible Carbohydrates

(2014) Erica D. Sonnenburg et al.   Cell Metabolism

High production of plant type levan in sugar beet transformed with timothy (Phleum pratense) 6-SFT genes

(2014) Hiroaki Matsuhira et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

A Perspective on the Complexity of Dietary Fiber Structures and Their Potential Effect on the Gut Microbiota

(2014) Bruce R. Hamaker et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Structure and Dynamics of a Polysaccharide Matrix: Aqueous Solutions of Bacterial Levan

(2014) Elizabeta Benigar et al.   LANGMUIR

High-Throughput Assay of Levansucrase Variants in Search of Feasible Catalysts for the Synthesis of Fructooligosaccharides and Levan

(2014) Karin Mardo et al.   MOLECULES

Prebiotic Potential of Agave angustifolia Haw Fructans with Different Degrees of Polymerization

(2014) José Velázquez-Martínez et al.   MOLECULES

Levan-type FOS production using a Bacillus licheniformis endolevanase

(2014) Jaime R. Porras-Domínguez et al.   PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY

Untangling the Fiber Yarn: Butyrate Feeds Warburg to Suppress Colorectal Cancer

(2014) C. Sebastian et al.   Cancer Discovery

Mutational analysis of conserved regions harboring catalytic triad residues of the levansucrase protein encoded by thelsc-3gene (lsc3) ofPseudomonas syringaepv. tomato DC3000

(2013) Karin Mardo et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbiota Modulate Behavioral and Physiological Abnormalities Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

(2013) Elaine Y. Hsiao et al.   CELL

Molecular Pathways: Gene-Environment Interactions Regulating Dietary Fiber Induction of Proliferation and Apoptosis via Butyrate for Cancer Prevention

(2013) S. J. Bultman   CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH

An Ecological Network of Polysaccharide Utilization among Human Intestinal Symbionts

(2013) Seth Rakoff-Nahoum et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The abundance and variety of carbohydrate-active enzymes in the human gut microbiota

(2013) Abdessamad El Kaoutari et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The carbohydrate-active enzymes database (CAZy) in 2013

(2013) Vincent Lombard et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

First crystal structure of an endo-inulinase, INU2, from Aspergillus ficuum: Discovery of an extra-pocket in the catalytic domain responsible for its endo-activity

(2012) Jenny Pouyez et al.   BIOCHIMIE

The gut anaerobe Faecalibacterium prausnitzii uses an extracellular electron shuttle to grow at oxic–anoxic interphases

(2012) M Tanweer Khan et al.   ISME Journal

The role of the gut microbiota in nutrition and health

(2012) Harry J. Flint et al.   Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Preliminary Safety Evaluation of a New Bacteroides xylanisolvens Isolate

(2011) Philippe Ulsemer et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Eating For Two: How Metabolism Establishes Interspecies Interactions in the Gut

(2011) Michael A. Fischbach et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Production of functional oligosaccharides through limited acid hydrolysis of agave fructans

(2011) Ángela Ávila-Fernández et al.   FOOD CHEMISTRY

Levansucrases from Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato and P. chlororaphis subsp. aurantiaca: Substrate specificity, polymerizing properties and usage of different acceptors for fructosylation

(2011) Triinu Visnapuu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Chain length of cereal fructans isolated from wheat stem and barley grain modulates in vitro fermentation

(2011) Colin L.D. Jenkins et al.   JOURNAL OF CEREAL SCIENCE

Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

(2011) F. Sievers et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

Recognition and Degradation of Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides by Two Human Gut Symbionts

(2011) Eric C. Martens et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Specificity of Polysaccharide Use in Intestinal Bacteroides Species Determines Diet-Induced Microbiota Alterations

(2010) Erica D. Sonnenburg et al.   CELL

The environment within: how gut microbiota may influence metabolism and body composition

(2010) A. Vrieze et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

Mode of synthesis of long-chain fructan in timothy haplocorm

(2010) Shinro Yamamoto et al.   GRASSLAND SCIENCE

The pURI family of expression vectors: A versatile set of ligation independent cloning plasmids for producing recombinant His-fusion proteins

(2010) José Antonio Curiel et al.   PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION

High level synthesis of levan by a novel Halomonas species growing on defined media

(2009) Annarita Poli et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Mechanisms of probiosis and prebiosis: considerations for enhanced functional foods

(2009) Delphine MA Saulnier et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Fully automated chip-based negative mode nanoelectrospray mass spectrometry of fructooligosaccharides produced by heterologously expressed levansucrase fromPseudomonassyringaepv. tomato DC3000

(2009) Triinu Visnapuu et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Hansenula polymorpha maltase gene promoter with sigma 70-like elements is feasible for Escherichia coli-based biotechnological applications: Expression of three genomic levansucrase genes of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato

(2008) Triinu Visnapuu et al.   PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY