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Inulinases

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Inulin, a linear β (2-1) linked fructose polymer, serves as a storage polysaccharide in the underground organs of several plants of the Asteraceae, including Vernonia herbacea, Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) and chicory (Cichorium endivia) (Vandamme & Derycke 1983). It is insoluble in water and due to variation in chain length; its molecular weight varies between ± 3500 – 5500. It is non-toxic and almost totally degraded by colonic bacteria, but undigested by gastric or intestinal enzymes. Recently, inulin received a great interest as it is a relatively inexpensive and abundant substrate for the production of fructose rich syrups (Pandey et al. 1999a), which has beneficial effects in diabetic patients, increases the iron absorption in children, has high sweetening capacity so it can be used in the diet of obese persons (Roberfroid & Delzenne 1998). It also stimulates calcium absorption in postmenopausal women (Heuvel et al. 2000), prevents colon cancer (Rowland et al. 1998), used as dietary fibers because of its fat like texture (Roberfroid & Delzenne 1998). It also serves as a potential feedstock for fuel ethanol (Ohta et al. 1993). Since chemical hydrolysis of inulin to fructose displays several drawbacks, like undesirable colouring of the inulin hydrolysate, change in taste and aroma etc, much attention is now being paid to the use of inulinase for enzyme hydrolysis.

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Sandhya, C., Pandey, A. (2006). Inulinases. In: Pandey, A., Webb, C., Soccol, C.R., Larroche, C. (eds) Enzyme Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35141-4_18

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