The Fruits of Siraitia grosvenorii: A Review of a Chinese Food-Medicine

X Gong, N Chen, K Ren, J Jia, K Wei, L Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Siraitia grosvenorii (Swingle) C. Jeffrey, a member of the family Cucurbitaceae, is a unique
economic and medicinal plant grown in China. For more than 300 years, S. grosvenorii has …

Structure–function relationship of terpenoid glycosyltransferases from plants

E Kurze, M Wüst, J Liao, K McGraphery… - Natural Product …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2021 Terpenoids are physiologically active substances that are of great
importance to humans. Their physicochemical properties are modified by glycosylation, in …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic biology for future food: research progress and future directions

X Lv, Y Wu, M Gong, J Deng, Y Gu, Y Liu, J Li, G Du… - Future Foods, 2021 - Elsevier
Food is essential to provide energy for human cellular metabolism, and is usually made from
plants or animals. Beside plants and animals, other important food sources are made by …

Sustainable bioproduction of natural sugar substitutes: Strategies and challenges

Y Xu, Y Wu, Y Liu, J Li, G Du, J Chen, X Lv… - Trends in Food Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background With the features of safety, stabilization, and low/no calorie, natural sugar
substitutes have been widely used in food and beverage industries. Nevertheless, the low …

Structural insights into the catalytic selectivity of glycosyltransferase SgUGT94-289-3 towards mogrosides

S Cui, S Zhang, N Wang, X Su, Z Luo, X Ma… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Mogrosides constitute a series of natural sweeteners extracted from Siraitia grosvenorii
fruits. These mogrosides are glucosylated to different degrees, with mogroside V (M5) and …

The sweet side of plant-specialized metabolism

T Louveau, A Osbourn - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Glycosylation plays a major role in the structural diversification of plant natural products. It
influences the properties of molecules by modifying the reactivity and solubility of the …

A review of the state of sweeteners science: the natural versus artificial non-caloric sweeteners debate. Stevia rebaudiana and Siraitia grosvenorii into the spotlight

A Muñoz-Labrador… - Critical Reviews in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The rapid increase in the worldwide prevalence of obesity and certain non-communicable
diseases (NCDs), such as: cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases …

Glycoside‐specific glycosyltransferases catalyze regio‐selective sequential glucosylations for a sesame lignan, sesaminol triglucoside

E Ono, T Waki, D Oikawa, J Murata… - The Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sesame (Sesamum indicum) seeds contain a large number of lignans, phenylpropanoid‐
related plant specialized metabolites.(+)‐Sesamin and (+)‐sesamolin are major …

Progress and Prospects of Natural Glycoside Sweetener Biosynthesis: A Review

G Qu, Y Liu, Q Ma, J Li, G Du, L Liu… - Journal of Agricultural and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
To achieve an adequate sense of sweetness with a healthy low-sugar diet, it is necessary to
explore and produce sugar alternatives. Recently, glycoside sweeteners and their …

Advances in Engineering Nucleotide Sugar Metabolism for Natural Product Glycosylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

SA Crowe, Y Liu, X Zhao, HV Scheller… - ACS Synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Glycosylation is a ubiquitous modification present across all of biology, affecting many things
such as physicochemical properties, cellular recognition, subcellular localization, and …