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[Rapidly identify oligosaccharides in Morinda officinalis by UPLC-Q-TOF-MSE].[Pubmed:29676129]

Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi. 2018 Mar;43(6):1201-1208.

In this paper, an approach was applied for separation and identification of oligosaccharides in Morinda officinalis How by Ultra performance liquid chromatography/quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-Q-TOF-MS) with collision energy. The separation was carried out on an ACQUITY UPLC BEH Amide C(1)(8)(2.1mmx100 mm1.7 mum) with gradient elution using acetonitrile(A) and water(B) containing 0.1% ammonia as mobile phase at a flow rate of 0.2 mL.min(-)(1). The column temperature was maintained at 40 degrees C. The information of accurate mass and characteristic fragment ion were acquired by MSE in ESI negative mode in low and high collision energy. The chemical structures and formula of oligosaccharides were obtained and identified by the software of UNIFI and Masslynx 4.1 based on the accurate mass, fragment ions, neutral losses, mass error, reference substance, isotope information, the intensity of fragments, and retention time. A total of 19 inulin oligosaccharide structures were identified including D(+)-sucrose, 1-Kestose, nystose, 1F-fructofuranosyl nystose and other inulin oligosaccharides (DP 5-18). This research provided important information about the inulin oligosaccharides in M. officinalis. The results would provide scientific basis for innovative utilization of M. officinalis.

Rational designed mutagenesis of levansucrase from Bacillus licheniformis 8-37-0-1 for product specificity study.[Pubmed:29497794]

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2018 Apr;102(7):3217-3228.

Levansucrases, which belong to the glycoside hydrolase family 68 (GH68), synthesize beta (2-6)-linked fructan levan with sucrose as substrate. We described the use of a levansucrase (Bl_SacB) from Bacillus licheniformis 8-37-0-1 for catalysis of fructosyl transfer to obtain high levan yield previously. In the present study, six variants (Y246A, N251A, K372A, R369A, R369S, and R369K) were constructed through sequence alignment and structural analysis to explore the synthesis mechanism of Bl_SacB. The selected residues were predicted to localize to the substrate-entering channel of the active cavity and close to or remote from the catalytic triad. The products of these variants ranged from homopolymers levan to fructo-oligosaccharides (FOSs). The primary FOSs were identified through MS and NMR analyses as neolevan-type neokestose [beta-D-Fru-(2-6)-alpha-D-Glc-(1-2)-beta-D-Fru], levan-type 6-kestose [beta-D-Fru-(2-6)-beta-D-Fru-(2-1)-alpha-D-Glc], and inulin-type 1-Kestose [beta-D-Fru-(2-1)-beta-D-Fru-(2-1)-alpha-D-Glc]. The mutation at Tyr(246) located remote from the catalytic triad led to the production of short-chain oligosaccharides with degree of polymerization (DP) of up to 25. The replaced Arg(369) located close to the catalytic triad resulted in either elimination of polysaccharide synthesis or complete change in the dominant linkage of the products. The Michaelis constants (Km) of Y246A, N251A, K372A, and R369K were found to be similar to that of the wild type (WT). However, the turnover number (kcat) and the value of transfructosylation versus hydrolysis activity of the six variants decreased compared with those of the WT. Hence, the residues located on the surface of the substrate-entering channel of Bl_SacB can be critical in product linkage type and/or elongation mechanism.

The ability of human intestinal anaerobes to metabolize different oligosaccharides: Novel means for microbiota modulation?[Pubmed:29734011]

Anaerobe. 2018 Jun;51:110-119.

Prebiotic oligosaccharides are known to have significant impacts on gut microbiota and are thus widely used to program healthy microbiota composition and activity from infants to the elderly. Bifidobacteria and lactobacilli are among the major target microorganisms of oligosaccharides, but the metabolic properties of oligosaccharides in other predominant gut microbes have not been well characterized. In the present study, we demonstrated the metabolic properties of six oligosaccharides in 31 key gut anaerobes. Bifidobacteria readily metabolized fructooligosaccharide (FOSs) with degree of polymerization (DP) 3, i.e. 1-Kestose, but several strains used did not actively metabolize FOSs with DP4 and DP5, i.e. nystose and fructosylnystose. Akkermansia muciniphila, a potential new probiotic against obesity, did not show significant growth with any of the oligosaccharides tested. The butyrate producer Anaerostipes caccae grew well on 1-Kestose but poorly on FOS mixtures, whereas it contained 1-Kestose at 30%. Bacteroides-Parabacteroides group species were separated into two groups based on oligosaccharide metabolic properties. One group metabolized well most of the oligosaccharides tested, but the others metabolized only 1 or 2 selected oligosaccharides. Oligosaccharide profiles after culturing revealed that Bifidobacterium spp. preferentially metabolized shorter oligosaccharides (DP3) in the mixtures, whereas Bacteroides-Parabacteroides spp. did not show oligosaccharide selectivity for metabolism or rather preferred longer oligosaccharides (>DP4). The fermentation profiles indicated specific links between the microbial end-products and specific gut microbes. Available carbohydrates had a significant impact on the accumulation of amino acid-derived bacterial metabolites (i.e. phenol, p-cresol, indole and skatole) and short chain fatty acids. The results assist in predicting the impact of oligosaccharides in human intervention and gut microbiota modulation.

NMR Quantification of Carbohydrates in Complex Mixtures. A Challenge on Honey.[Pubmed:29110461]

Anal Chem. 2017 Dec 19;89(24):13405-13414.

The knowledge of carbohydrate composition is greatly important to determine the properties of natural matrices such as foodstuff and food ingredients. However, because of the structural similarity and the multiple isomeric forms of carbohydrates in solution, their analysis is often a complex task. Here we propose an NMR analytical procedure based on highly selective chemical shift filters followed by TOCSY, which allows us to acquire specific background-free signals for each sugar. The method was tested on raw honey samples dissolved in water with no other pretreatment. In total, 22 sugars typically found in honey were quantified: 4 monosaccharides (glucose, fructose, mannose, rhamnose), 11 disaccharides (sucrose, trehalose, turanose, maltose, maltulose, palatinose, melibiose and melezitose, isomaltose, gentiobiose nigerose, and kojibiose), and 7 trisaccharides (raffinose, isomaltotriose, erlose, melezitose, maltotriose, panose, and 1-Kestose). Satisfactory results in terms of limit of quantification (0.03-0.4 g/100g honey), precision (% RSD: 0.99-4.03), trueness (bias % 0.4-4.2), and recovery (97-104%) were obtained. An accurate control of the instrumental temperature and of the sample pH endows an optimal chemical shift reproducibility, making the procedure amenable to automation and suitable to routine analysis. While validated on honey, which is one of the most complex natural matrices in terms of saccharides composition, this innovative approach can be easily transferred to other natural matrices.

Fructooligosaccharides production by Schedonorus arundinaceus sucrose:sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase constitutively expressed to high levels in Pichia pastoris.[Pubmed:29246839]

J Biotechnol. 2018 Jan 20;266:59-71.

The non-saccharolytic yeast Pichia pastoris was engineered to express constitutively the mature region of sucrose:sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase (1-SST, EC 2.4.1.99) from Tall fescue (Schedonorus arundinaceus). The increase of the transgene dosage from one to nine copies enhanced 7.9-fold the recombinant enzyme (Sa1-SSTrec) yield without causing cell toxicity. Secretion driven by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-factor signal peptide resulted in periplasmic retention (38%) and extracellular release (62%) of Sa1-SSTrec to an overall activity of 102.1U/ml when biomass reached (106g/l, dry weight) in fed-batch fermentation using cane sugar for cell growth. The volumetric productivity of the nine-copy clone PGFT6x-308 at the end of fermentation (72h) was 1422.2U/l/h. Sa1-SSTrec purified from the culture supernatant was a monomeric glycoprotein optimally active at pH 5.0-6.0 and 45-50 degrees C. The removal of N-linked oligosaccharides by Endo Hf treatment decreased the enzyme stability but had no effect on the substrate and product specificities. Sa1-SSTrec converted sucrose (600g/l) into 1-Kestose (GF2) and nystose (GF3) in a ratio 9:1 with their sum representing 55-60% (w/w) of the total carbohydrates in the reaction mixture. Variations in the sucrose (100-800g/l) or enzyme (1.5-15 units per gram of substrate) concentrations kept unaltered the product profile. Sa1-SSTrec is an attractive candidate enzyme for the industrial production of short-chain fructooligosaccharides, most particularly 1-Kestose.

Levan-type fructooligosaccharides synthesis by a levansucrase-endolevanase fusion enzyme (LevB1SacB).[Pubmed:28962785]

Carbohydr Polym. 2017 Dec 1;177:40-48.

We describe here the enzymatic production of levan type-fructooligosaccharides (L-FOS) with a DP from 2 to 10, through simultaneous synthesis and hydrolysis reactions. This was accomplished by LevB1SacB, a new enzyme resulting from the fusion of SacB, a levansucrase from Bacillus subtilis and LevB1, an endolevanase from B. licheniformis. In the fusion enzyme, SacB retains its catalytic behavior with a decrease in kcat from 164 to 108s(-1). LevB1 in LevB1SacB kinetic behavior improves considerably reaching saturation with levan and following Michaelis-Menten kinetics, quite differently from the previously reported first order kinetic behavior. We also report that LevB1SacB or both enzymes (LevB1 & SacB) at equimolar concentrations in simultaneous reactions result in an optimal, wide and diverse L-FOS profile, including 6-kestose, levanbiose and blastose among other L-FOS and 1-Kestose, which accumulates as by-product of SacB levan synthesis. Yields of around 40% (w/w) were obtained from 600g/l sucrose with either LevB1SacB or LevB1 & SacB. The reaction was successfully scaled up to a stirred 2l bioreactor.

1-Kestose, the smallest fructooligosaccharide component, which efficiently stimulates Faecalibacterium prausnitzii as well as Bifidobacteria.

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