Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1257635 | Current Opinion in Chemical Biology | 2008 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Glycodiversification of natural products is an effective strategy for small molecule drug development. Recently, improved methods for chemo-enzymatic synthesis of glycosyl donors has spurred the characterization of natural product glycosyltransferases (GTs), revealing that the substrate specificity of many naturally occurring GTs as too stringent for use in glycodiversification. Protein engineering of natural product GTs has emerged as an attractive approach to overcome this limitation. This review highlights recent progress in the engineering/evolution of enzymes relevant to natural product glycodiversification with a particular focus upon GTs.
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Authors
Gavin J Williams, Richard W Gantt, Jon S Thorson,