Oligosaccharides production from coprophilous fungi: An emerging functional food with potential health-promoting properties.

Functional foods are essential food products that possess health-promoting properties for the treatment of infectious diseases. In addition, they provide energy and nutrients, which are required for growth and survival. They occur as prebiotics or dietary supplements, including oligosaccharides, processed foods, and herbal products.

Purification and biochemical characterization of an extracellular fructosyltransferase enzyme from sp. XOBP48: implication in fructooligosaccharide production.

An extracellular fructosyltransferase (Ftase) enzyme with a molar mass of ≈70 kDa from a newly isolated indigenous coprophilous fungus sp. XOBP48 is purified to homogeneity and characterized in this study. The enzyme was purified to 4.