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Strongly recommended open-access paper Li, X. et al., 2020. Structures, physico-chemical properties, production and (potential) applications of sucrose-derived α-d-glucans synthesized by glucansucrases. Carbohydrate Polymers, Volume 249, p. 116818. DOI 10.1016/j.carbpol.2020.116818. Enjoy reading this review. Abstract Glycoside hydrolase family 70 (GH70) glucansucrases produce α-D-glucan polysaccharides (e.g. dextran), which have different linkage composition, branching degree and size distribution, [...]

Please check-out our open-access paper Valk-Weeber, R. L. et al. Quantitative analysis of bovine whey glycoproteins using the overall N-linked whey glycoprofile. International Dairy Journal, Volume 110, p. 104814. DOI 10.1016/j.idairyj.2020.104814 in collaboration with Friesland Campina (Amersfoort). Abstract Bovine whey is an important ingredient in human nutrition and contains many biofunctional, glycosylated proteins. Knowledge on the glycoprotein [...]

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is celebrating its twenty-year anniversary of "Molecule of the Month". Here we present the winner of June 2011, the glucansucrase protein. PDB has written a very interesting outline of these glucansucrase enzymes that are crucial to the CarbExplore technologies for oligosaccharide and polysaccharide synthesis, and for glucosylation of diverse acceptor [...]

The number of oligosaccharides present in human milk is relatively high. These oligosaccharides (HMOs) are essential for the development of the neonates. As the oligosaccharides content in cow milk is significantly lower than the levels in mother’s milk, another alternative source of oligosaccharides is being researched. Goat milk is believed that it could play such [...]