Disaccharide phosphorylases(DSPs)are carbohydrate-active enzymes with outstanding potential for the biocatalytic conversion of common table sugar into products with attractive properties.They are modular enzymes that ...Disaccharide phosphorylases(DSPs)are carbohydrate-active enzymes with outstanding potential for the biocatalytic conversion of common table sugar into products with attractive properties.They are modular enzymes that form active homo-oligomers.From a mechanistic as well as a structural point of view,they are similar to glycoside hydrolases or glycosyltransferases.As the majority of DSPs show strict stereo-and regiospecificities,these enzymes were used to synthesize specific disaccharides.Currently,protein engineering of DSPs is pursued in different laboratories to broaden the donor and acceptor substrate specificities or improve the industrial particularity of naturally existing enzymes,to eventually generate a toolbox of new catalysts for glycoside synthesis.Herein we review the characteristics and classifications of reported DSPs and the glycoside products that they have been used to synthesize.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.ZDRW-ZS-2016-3)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.21778073)Tianjin Synthetic Biotechnology Innovation Capacity Improvement Project(Grant No.TSBICIP-KJGG-003).
文摘Disaccharide phosphorylases(DSPs)are carbohydrate-active enzymes with outstanding potential for the biocatalytic conversion of common table sugar into products with attractive properties.They are modular enzymes that form active homo-oligomers.From a mechanistic as well as a structural point of view,they are similar to glycoside hydrolases or glycosyltransferases.As the majority of DSPs show strict stereo-and regiospecificities,these enzymes were used to synthesize specific disaccharides.Currently,protein engineering of DSPs is pursued in different laboratories to broaden the donor and acceptor substrate specificities or improve the industrial particularity of naturally existing enzymes,to eventually generate a toolbox of new catalysts for glycoside synthesis.Herein we review the characteristics and classifications of reported DSPs and the glycoside products that they have been used to synthesize.
