Enzymatic route to preparative-scale synthesis of UDP-GlcNAc/GalNAc, their analogues and GDP-fucose

Nature Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 636-646

  Zhao, Guohui ^a,c   Guan, Wanyi ^a,b   Cai, Li ^a   Wang, Peng George ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOSE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE FUCOSE; HEXOSAMINE; HEXOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SUGAR NUCLEOTIDE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS;

GLYCOSYLATION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE FUCOSE; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PROCESSES; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYSACCHARIDES; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

EID: 77949476863     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2010.3     Document Type: Article

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