Bacterial glycosyltransferases: Challenges and Opportunities of a Highly Diverse Enzyme Class Toward Tailoring Natural Products

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue FEB, 2016, Pages

  Schmid, Jochen ^a   Heider, Dominik ^b   Wendel, Norma J ^b   Sperl, Nadine ^a   Sieber, Volker ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WEIHENSTEPHAN TRIESDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial glycosyltransferases; Categorization of glycosyltransferases; Docking experiments; Polysaccharide glycosyltransferases; Screening; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GLYCOSYLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RADIOASSAY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 84962159528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00182     Document Type: Article

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