Abstract

Starch-converting α-glucanotransferases are efficient enzymatic toolkits for the biosynthesis of diverse α-glucans, which hold vast application potential in the food industry. In this work, we identified a novel GtfB protein from Fructilactobacillus sanfranciscensis TMW11304 (FsTMW11304 GtfB) in NCBI. Although this enzyme was highly conserved in motifs I-IV with those isomalto-maltopolysaccharides (IMMPs)-producing GtfB α-glucanotransferases, it possessed distinct deletions and mutations in two crucial loops shaping the active site. Hence, unlike those GtfB enzymes, FsTMW11304 GtfB not only exhibited excellent 4,6-α-glucanotransferase activity on amylose to generate atypically low-molecular-weight IMMPs with consecutive linear (α1 → 6) linkages up to 48 %, but also held good capability towards branched substrates. Besides, compared with the control, the treatment by FsTMW11304 GtfB reduced the storage/loss modulus of granular and gelatinized tapioca starches (TS) by 12.0 %/17.9 % and 91.4 %/82.9 %, respectively, indicating that the rigidity of the gel structure was attenuated to different degrees in the two reaction systems. Furthermore, the setback viscosity observed in the gelatinized TS modified by FsTMW11304 GtfB was only 5 % of that observed in the control group, suggesting the short-term anti-retrogradation property has been substantially improved. Thus, FsTMW11304 GtfB represents a meaningful addition to the α-glucanotransferases in GH70 family, which expands the repertoire of diverse α-glucans synthesized from starch and facilitates the understanding of the structure-function relationship of the GtfB α-glucanotransferases.

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