The qualified presumption of safety (QPS) approach was developed to provide a regularly
updated generic pre‐evaluation of the safety of biological agents, intended for addition to …

Glucose is the most abundant monosaccharide in nature and is an important energy source
for living organisms. Glucose exists primarily as oligomers or polymers and organisms break …

Carbohydrate degradation is crucial for living organisms due to their essential functions in
providing energy and composing various metabolic pathways. Nevertheless, in the catalytic …

The glycoside hydrolase (GH) 87 α-1, 3-glucanase (Agl-EK14) gene was cloned from the
genomic DNA of the gram-negative bacterium Flavobacterium sp. EK14. The gene consisted …

Dental biofilms represent a serious oral health problem playing a key role in the
development of caries and other oral diseases. In the present work, we cloned and …

Chitin and its derivatives have valuable potential applications in various fields that include
medicine, agriculture, and food industries. Paenibacillus sp. str. FPU-7 is one of the most …

α-Linked galactose is a common carbohydrate motif in nature that is processed by a variety
of glycoside hydrolases from different families. Terminal Galα1–3Gal motifs are found as a …

Biobased materials are promising alternatives to traditional fossil-derived synthetic polymers
to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and to provide end-of-life benefits addressing …

Agl-KA, an α-1, 3-glucan-hydrolyzing enzyme from Bacillus circulans KA-304, has three α-1,
3-glucan-binding domains DS1, CB6, and DS2 (DCD). While their individual binding …

ABSTRACT Bacterial α-1, 3-glucanase, classified as glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 87,
has been divided into 3 subgroups based on differences in gene sequences in the catalytic …