Powder Amstar-ase Starch Reducing Enzyme

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AMSTAR-ase is an endo- amylase, which catalyses the release of successive glucose units from non- reducing ends of dextrin and oligosaccharide chains by hydrolyzing both linear and branched glycosidic linkages. It contains extracellular enzymes produced by controlled fermentation of a selected strain of Aspergillus niger.

AMSTAR-ase hydrolyzes the alpha-1, 4-glucosidic bonds in amylose and amylopectin. It is used for glucose production from Saccharified starch. It is important to understand that starch is actually a complex sugar. Each starch molecule is a long chain of up to a thousand glucose molecules bonded either in a straight line or branching like the arms  of a tree. AMSTAR-ase is used to attack the branched linkages to breakdown starch into single glucose units, thereby increasing the sugar yield.