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Record W4410953385 · doi:10.1080/10408398.2025.2513521

Levansucrases: a review of their catalytic properties, product characterization and applications in food systems

2025· review· en· W4410953385 on OpenAlexafffund
Muriel Wong Min, Salwa Karboune

Bibliographic record

VenueCritical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldNursing
TopicMicrobial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsCharacterization (materials science)Food scienceProduct (mathematics)Biochemical engineeringFood productsCatalysisFood industryChemistryBusinessProcess engineeringNanotechnologyBiotechnologyMaterials scienceBiologyEngineeringBiochemistryMathematics

Abstract

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Owing to the promising physiological effects of levan and levan-type fructooligosaccharides, levansucrase (LS, EC 2.4.1.10) has garnered much interest in recent years for pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food applications. LS is a fructosyl-transferase that catalyzes the synthesis of complex oligosaccharides by acquiring a fructosyl residue from a donor molecule and performing non-Leloir transfer to an acceptor molecule. The mechanism of action of LS toward various carbohydrates has been well documented, and increasing interest has been drawn to the ability of alkyl and phenolic compounds to act as acceptor substrates for LS-catalyzed transfructosylation reactions. Many studies have also focused on improving the production of LSs and their product spectrum, whether by increasing their overall activity or shifting their selectivity toward a particular reaction. With these advances, the possibility of applying LS to food processing has gradually gained momentum. This review provides a comprehensive discussion of the catalytic properties of LS and full characterization of its reaction products. We then discuss some applications of microbial LS for the biogeneration of functional ingredients in food systems.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.011

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.066
GPT teacher head0.344
Teacher spread0.278 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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