Compositions for and methods of manufacturing a fucosylated cell population are provided. The method may include expansion of the cells and/or cryopreservation of the cells under conditions that retain optimum levels of cell surface fucosylation.

A genetically modified plant or plant cell with reduced α1,3-fucosyltransferase and β1,2-xylosyltransferase activity compared to a wild type plant or plant cell, wherein less than 10% of the total glycan on a protein produced by the plant or plant cell is α1,3-fucosylated glycan and less than 3% of the total glycan on the protein is β1,2-xylosylated glycan is provided. In one embodiment, the plant or plant cell comprises three T-DNA insertions expressing five copies of RNAi targeting α1,3-fucosyltranserase and three copies of RNAi targeting β1,2xylosyltransferase.

The present inventive concept relates to a genetically modified cell enabled for the production of an oligosaccharide, preferably, an HMO, comprising a recombinant nucleic encoding a putative transporter protein of the MFS superfamily; and methods using said cell for the production of oligosaccharide(s), preferably an HMO.

Mutated fucosidases are provided demonstrating improved properties in terms of thermal stability and transfucosidase synthetic performance compared with a wild type transfucosidase isolated from Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis.

The invention relates to a mixture of human milk oligosaccharides that consists essentially of: a) a component A which is 3-FL or DFL, a component B which is LNT, LNnT, LNFP-I or 2′-FL, a component C, which is LNFP-II when component B is LNT, or LNFP-III when component B is LNnT, or LNDFH-I when component B is LNFP-I, or DFL when component B is 2′-FL, and a component D, which is lactose when component A is 3-FL, or 2′-FL when component A is DFL, with the proviso that if component B is 2′-FL, then component A is 3-FL; or consists essentially of: b) 3-FL, a component E which is LNT, LNnT or LNFP-I, and a component F, which is LNFP-II when component E is LNT, or LNFP-III when component E is LNnT, or LNDFH-I when component E is LNFP-I,
and to processes for producing them and their uses.

The invention relates to methods and compositions for the production of fucosylated oligosaccharides.

The present invention provides an α-1,3 fucosyltransferase mutant having an increased expression level of soluble protein and increased activity, a DNA encoding the α-1,3 fucosyltransferase mutant, a recombinant vector comprising the DNA encoding the α-1,3 fucosyltransferase mutant, a host cell transformed with the recombinant DNA vector, an extract of the host cell, a method for producing 3-fucosyloligosaccharide, a method for preparing an α-1,3 fucosyltransferase mutant, and a method for screening an α-1,3 fucosyltransferase mutant. The α-1,3 fucosyltransferase mutant of the present invention has a significantly increased soluble protein expression level and activity.

The invention relates to methods and compositions for the production of fucosylated oligosaccharides.

Disclosed are genetically-engineered gram-negative bacterial cells for the production of an oligosaccharide of interest, wherein the bacterial cell possesses a saccharide transporter and/or a porin being expressed from a recombinant gene or a deregulated endogenous gene, thereby facilitating the translocation of the oligosaccharide of interest from the cell's cytoplasm into the cell's environment. Also disclosed are methods for producing an oligosaccharide of interest which used said genetically-engineered gram-negative bacterial cells.

Methods for producing 3-fucosyllactose (3-FL) as well as novel fucosyltransferases, more specifically novel lactose binding alpha-1,3-fucosyltransferase polypeptides, and their applications. Furthermore, methods are provided for producing 3-fucosyllactose (3-FL) using the novel lactose binding alpha-1,3-fucosyltransferases.