Carbohydrates are ubiquitous in Nature and play vital roles in many biological systems.
Therefore the synthesis of carbohydrate-based compounds is of considerable interest for …

Starch is an abundant, natural, renewable resource, and present as the major storage
carbohydrate in the seeds, roots, or tubers of many important food crops, such as maize …

The glycemic carbohydrates we consume are currently viewed in an unfavorable light in
both the consumer and medical research worlds. In significant part, these carbohydrates …

Abstract Amylosucrase (EC 2.4. 1.4, ASase), an outstanding sucrose-utilizing
transglucosylase in the glycoside hydrolase family 13, can produce glucans with only α-1, 4 …

Abstract Amylosucrase (AS; EC 2.4. 1.4) is an enzyme that has great potential in the
biotechnology and food industries, due to its multifunctional enzyme activities. It can …

Bacteria have acquired sophisticated mechanisms for assembling and disassembling
polysaccharides of different chemistry. α-d-Glucose homopolysaccharides, so-called α …

Amylosucrases and branching sucrases are α-retaining transglucosylases found in the
glycoside-hydrolase families 13 and 70, respectively, of the clan GH-H. These enzymes …

Amylosucrase (ASase) is a unique multifunctional enzyme exhibiting transglycosylation
activity. In this study, the specificity of the transglycosylation activity of ASase was evaluated …

Amylosucrase, catalyzing the synthesis of α-(1, 4)-glucan from sucrose, has been widely
studied and used in carbohydrate biotransformation because of its versatile activities. In this …

Many attempts have been made to obtain natural products with certain glycosidic linkages
for improvement of their chemo-physical characteristics. Amylosucrase from Deinococcus …