Recent advances in discovery, heterologous expression, and molecular engineering of cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase for versatile applications

R Han, J Li, H Shin, RR Chen, G Du, L Liu… - Biotechnology Advances, 2014 - Elsevier
Cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase (CGTase) is an important enzyme with multiple functions, in
particular the production of cyclodextrins. It is also widely applied in baking and …

Computation-aided engineering of starch-debranching pullulanase from Bacillus thermoleovorans for enhanced thermostability

J Bi, S Chen, X Zhao, Y Nie, Y Xu - Applied Microbiology and …, 2020 - Springer
Pullulanases are widely used in food, medicine, and other industries because they
specifically hydrolyze α-1, 6-glycosidic linkages in starch and oligosaccharides. In addition …

[HTML][HTML] Metagenomics reveal the role of microorganism and GH genes contribute to Sichuan South-road dark tea quality formation during pile fermentation

Y Zou, Y Yuan, M Liu, X Li, Y Lai, X Liu, L Tan, Q Tang… - LWT, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbes are critical for the flavor development of Sichuan South-road Dark Tea (SSDT)
during pile-fermentation. However, their mechanism of action has not been fully elucidated …

Glycosidic bond specificity of glucansucrases: on the role of acceptor substrate binding residues

H Leemhuis, T Pijning, JM Dobruchowska… - Biocatalysis and …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Many lactic acid bacteria produce extracellular α-glucan polysaccharides using a
glucansucrase and sucrose as glucose donor. The structure and the physicochemical …

Ligand-binding specificity and promiscuity of the main lignocellulolytic enzyme families as revealed by active-site architecture analysis

L Tian, S Liu, S Wang, L Wang - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Biomass can be converted into sugars by a series of lignocellulolytic enzymes, which belong
to the glycoside hydrolase (GH) families summarized in CAZy databases. Here, using a …

Crystal structure of the branching enzyme I (BEI) from Oryza sativa L with implications for catalysis and substrate binding

J Noguchi, K Chaen, NT Vu, T Akasaka… - …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Starch-branching enzyme catalyzes the cleavage of α-1, 4-linkages and the subsequent
transfer of α-1, 4 glucan to form an α-1, 6 branch point in amylopectin. Sequence analysis of …

Gene cloning and enzymatic characterization of alkali‐tolerant type I pullulanase from Exiguobacterium acetylicum

Y Qiao, Q Peng, J Yan, H Wang… - Letters in applied …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
A pullulanase gene (Pul3YH5) of 2568 bp, which encodes a protein containing 855 amino
acid residues, was cloned from the alkaliphilic bacterium Exiguobacterium acetylicum YH5 …

Crystal structure of Anoxybacillus α-amylase provides insights into maltose binding of a new glycosyl hydrolase subclass

KP Chai, NFB Othman, AH Teh, KL Ho, KG Chan… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
A new subfamily of glycosyl hydrolase family GH13 was recently proposed for α-amylases
from Anoxybacillus species (ASKA and ADTA), Geobacillus thermoleovorans (GTA, Pizzo …

Diversity of microbial carbohydrate-active enZYmes (CAZYmes) associated with freshwater and soil samples from Caatinga biome

AC Andrade, A Fróes, FÁC Lopes, FL Thompson… - Microbial ecology, 2017 - Springer
Semi-arid and arid areas occupy about 33% of terrestrial ecosystems. However, little
information is available about microbial diversity in the semi-arid Caatinga, which represents …

Oligosaccharide and substrate binding in the starch debranching enzyme barley limit dextrinase

MS Møller, MS Windahl, L Sim, M Bøjstrup… - Journal of molecular …, 2015 - Elsevier
Complete hydrolytic degradation of starch requires hydrolysis of both the α-1, 4-and α-1, 6-
glucosidic bonds in amylopectin. Limit dextrinase (LD) is the only endogenous barley …