Biocatalytic approaches to building blocks for enzymatic and chemical glycan synthesis

JP Dolan, SC Cosgrove, GJ Miller - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
While the field of biocatalysis has bloomed over the past 20–30 years, advances in the
understanding and improvement of carbohydrate-active enzymes, in particular, the sugar …

Bottom‐Up Synthesized Glucan Materials: Opportunities from Applied Biocatalysis

C Zhong, B Nidetzky - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Linear d‐glucans are natural polysaccharides of simple chemical structure. They are
comprised of d‐glucosyl units linked by a single type of glycosidic bond. Noncovalent …

Real-time monitoring of the sialic acid biosynthesis pathway by NMR

JLG López, P Schmieder, K Kemnitz-Hassanin… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Sialic acids are part of the outermost component of the glycocalyx of all vertebrates; as such,
they are fundamental markers in physiological and pathological processes. In this study, we …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in the understanding and exploitation of carbohydrate-active enzymes

RK Bains, SA Nasseri, JF Wardman… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) are responsible for the biosynthesis, modification
and degradation of all glycans in Nature. Advances in genomic and metagenomic …

Single-mutations at the galactose-binding site of enzymes GalK, GalU, and LgtC enable the efficient synthesis of UDP-6-azido-6-deoxy-d-galactose and azido …

ME Ortiz-Soto, M Baier, D Brenner, M Timm… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Lysosomal accumulation of the glycosphingolipid globotriaosylceramide Gb3 is linked to the
deficient activity of the α-galactosidase A in the Anderson–Fabry disease and an elevated …

Rapid and sensitive detection of native glycoRNAs

H Hemberger, P Chai, CG Lebedenko, RM Caldwell… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Chemical tools enable precise characterization of many biopolymers, including
glycoconjugates. Metabolic chemical reporters enabled the discovery of glycoRNAs …

Mass spectrometry-based candidate substrate and site identification of PTM enzymes

W Chen, G Ji, R Wu, C Fang, H Lu - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein post-translational modifications (PTMs), which include covalent addition of functional
groups to proteins and removal of specific amino acid (s) from proteins after synthesis, are …

Probing for N-acetylglucosamine in the Glycans of Escherichia coli

AMT Eddenden - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The glycobiology of bacteria is fundamental to understanding many aspects of their
behaviour and how they interact with their environments, infect hosts, and transition between …

Synthesis of 5-Halo-2ʹ-Azido Derivatives of Cytidine and N-Hydroxycytidine and Evaluation of Their Antiviral Activity on a Panel of RNA Viruses, Including SARS …

PN Kamzeeva, ES Kolpakova, EV Karpova… - Russian Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new global pandemic with high
morbidity and mortality caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

Sub-single-turnover quantification of enzyme catalysis at ultrahigh throughput via a versatile NAD (P) H coupled assay in microdroplets

M Penner, OJ Klein, M Gantz, S Boss, P Barker… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Enzyme engineering and discovery are crucial for a future sustainable bioeconomy, and
harvesting new biocatalysts from large libraries through directed evolution or functional …