'Sweetening' natural products via glycorandomization

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 622-630

  Griffith, Byron R ^a   Langenhan, Joseph M ^a   Thorson, Jon S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATES; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DRUG PRODUCTS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYMES; SUBSTRATES;

GLYCOSYLATION; NATURAL PRODUCTS; SUGAR CONSTITUENTS; SUGAR LIGATION;

SUGARS;

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; NATURAL PRODUCT; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SUGAR; SWEETENING AGENT; TRANSFERASE;

BIOCATALYST; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHEMOENZYMATIC GLYCORANDOMIZATION; GLYCOSYLATION; NEOGLYCORANDOMIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATES; CATALYSIS; GLYCOSYLATION; TRANSFERASES;

EID: 27844587415     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2005.10.002     Document Type: Review

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