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Abstract

Fructansucrase enzymes polymerize the fructose moiety of sucrose into levan or inulin fructans, with (2-6) and (2-1) linkages, respectively. Here, we report an evaluation of fructan synthesis in three strains, identification of the fructansucrase-encoding genes and characterization of the recombinant proteins and fructan (oligosaccharide) products. High-performance anion-exchange chromatography and nuclear magnetic resonance analysis of the fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) and polymers produced by the strains and the recombinant enzymes revealed that, , strains DSM 20604 and 20077 synthesize inulin (and oligosaccharides) and levan products, respectively. DSM 20604 is only the second strain shown to produce inulin polymer and FOS , and is unique in its distribution of FOS synthesized, ranging from DP2 to DP13. The probiotic bacterium DSM 20243 did not produce any fructan, although we identified a fructansucrase-encoding gene in its genome sequence. Further studies showed that this DSM 20243 gene was prematurely terminated by a stop codon. Exchanging the stop codon for a glutamine codon resulted in a recombinant enzyme producing inulin and FOS. The three recombinant fructansucrase enzymes characterized from three different strains have very similar primary protein structures, yet synthesize different fructan products. An interesting feature of the strains is that they were unable to ferment raffinose, whereas their respective recombinant enzymes converted raffinose into fructan and FOS.

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