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Edmilson Clarindo de Siqueira1, Ebru Toksoy Öner2
1Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco (IFPE), Campus Barreiros, 55560-000 Recife, PE, Brazil.
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Levan is a homopolysaccharide of fructose that has both scientific and industrial importance, with various applications in health, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries. Despite its broad spectrum of uses, there are only a limited number of commercial levan sources due to the high costs related to its production. To make production economically viable, efforts have been concentrated on the selection of levan-producing microorganisms, the genetic manipulation of new strains, and the use of inexpensive agro-industrial byproducts as substrates. Another efficient strategy involves the concomitant synthesis of other products with high market value and as such, the successful co-production of levan was demonstrated with fructooligosaccharides, ethanol, sorbitol, poly-ε-lysine, poly-γ-glutamic acid and polyhydroxyalkanoates. This paper offers a systematic review of important aspects regarding recent strategies involving the simultaneous synthesis of levan and other bioproducts of aggregate value reported to date and discusses the challenges and opportunities for its large-scale production and applications.
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