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Fructans

Known as: Fructans [Chemical/Ingredient], Levans, fructan 
Polysaccharides composed of D-fructose units.
National Institutes of Health

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CoPS3 fructan, Cyanthula officinalisOpaw-2cyclofructan 6glucofructan
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Purification and Characterization of the Enzymes of Fructan Biosynthesis in Tubers of Helianthus tuberosus Colombia (II. Purification of Sucrose:Sucrose 1-Fructosyltransferase and Reconstitution of…
Sucrose:sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase (1-SST), an enzyme involved in fructan biosynthesis, was purified to homogeneity from… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Fructan as a New Carbohydrate Sink in Transgenic Potato Plants.
Fructans are polyfructose molecules that function as nonstructural storage carbohydrates in several plant species that are… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Fructan Synthesis in Excised Barley Leaves (Identification of Two Sucrose-Sucrose Fructosyltransferases Induced by Light and Their Separation from Constitutive Invertases)
Excised leaves of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) exposed to continuous light accumulate large amounts of soluble carbohydrates… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Analysis of the linkage positions in D-fructofuranosyl residues by the reductive-cleavage method.
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Structure of extracellular water-soluble polysaccharides synthesized from sucrose by oral strains of Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus salivarius, Streptococcus sanguis and Actinomyces viscosus.
Review
1974
Review
1974
Specificity of antibodies to Streptococcus mutans; significance in inhibition of adherence.
Shortly after strains of Streptococcus mutans were shown to be cariogenic, they were found to produce dextran and levan polymers… 
Review
1970
Review
1970
Effects of endotoxins on susceptibility to infections.
Endotoxins can alter susceptibility to many infections and have provided an important tool for investigation of the mechanisms of… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Hydrolysis of levan by human plaque streptococci.
1964
1964
Studies on the dental plaque. IV. Levans and the dental plaque
Highly Cited
1946
Highly Cited
1946
FORMATION OF SEROLOGICALLY REACTIVE DEXTRANS BY STREPTOCOCCI FROM SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS
Serologically reactive dextrans were synthesized from sucrose by 22 of 48 strains of streptococci isolated from the blood of… 
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