Recent advances in the enzymatic synthesis of sugar-nucleotides using nucleotidylyltransferases and glycosyltransferases

Carbohydr Res. 2018 Nov:469:38-47. doi: 10.1016/j.carres.2018.09.002. Epub 2018 Sep 14.

Authors

Sanaz Ahmadipour¹, Laura Beswick¹, Gavin J Miller²

Affiliations

¹ Lennard-Jones Laboratory, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.
² Lennard-Jones Laboratory, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK. Electronic address: g.j.miller@keele.ac.uk.

PMID: 30265902
DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2018.09.002

No abstract available

Keywords: Enzymatic synthesis; Glycosyl-1-phosphate; Nucleotidylyltransferase; Pyrophosphorylase; Sugar-nucleotide.

MeSH terms

Glycosyltransferases / metabolism*
Molecular Structure
Nucleotides / biosynthesis*
Nucleotides / chemistry
Nucleotidyltransferases / metabolism*
Sugars / chemistry
Sugars / metabolism*

Substances

Nucleotides
Sugars
Glycosyltransferases
Nucleotidyltransferases