Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes Structure, Activity and Reaction Products

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Biology, life sciences; Research & information: general; acceptor diversity; activated sugar; alcoholysis; alkyl glycosides (AG)s; alpha-amylase; Amy A; amylopectin; applied biocatalysis; Arxula adeninivorans; avian gut GH22; Bacillus thuringiensis; bioethanol; biomass; biosynthesis; biotechnology; biotransformation; capsular polysaccharides; carbohydrate; carbohydrate-binding module; CBM truncation; cell wall glycopolymers; Cellulase; cellulose degradation; Chaetomium thermophilum; chemoenzymatic synthesis; circular dichroism; cold-adapted; complete saccharification; complex structures; crystal structure; crystallography; Deep eutectic solvents (DES); degradation; endo-α-(1→6)-d-mannase; Enzymatic glycosylation; enzyme cascades; evolution; exopolysaccharides; FOS biosynthesis; fructooligosaccharides; fructosyltransferase; functional genomics; fungal enzymes; galactosidase; ganoderic acid; GH13_18; GH2; GH20; GH68; glycogen; glycoside hydrolase; glycoside hydrolyase; glycoside phosphorylase; glycosylation; glycosyltransferase; halo-tolerant; hemicellulase; hemicellulose; human milk oligosaccharides; hydrolysis; Ilumatobacter coccineus; inhibition by Tris; lacto-N-triose II; Lactobacillus; Leloir; Leloir glycosyltransferases; lignocellulose; lipoarabinomannan; lipomannan; lipopolysaccharides; lysozyme; maltose; mannoside; methanol; molecular phylogeny; Mycobacterium; N-acetylhexosamine specificity; N-glycans; n/a; NAG-oxazoline; Nanopore sequencing; NMR; nucleotide; nucleotide donors; Paenibacillus polymyxa; panose; pectate lyase; pectins; peptidoglycan cleavage; phosphatidylinositol mannosides; phylogenetic analysis; polySia motifs; prebiotic oligosaccharides; protein stability; protein structure; pyruvate analytics; pyruvylation; pyruvyltransferase; random mutagenesis; reaction mechanism; Rhodococcus, Actinobacteria, gene redundancy; sequence space; ST8Sia; starch degradation; structural analysis; structure; sucrose phosphorylase; sugar chemistry; Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum; thermophilic fungus; transglycosylation; Trichoderma harzianum; UDP-glucose; UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase; UTP; whole genome sequencing; xylan hydrolysis; xylanase; xylanolytic enzyme; α-amylase; α-glucosidase; α2,8-sialyltransferases; β-glucosidases
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 Carbohydrate-active enzymes are responsible for both biosynthesis and the breakdown of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates. They are involved in many metabolic pathways; in the biosynthesis and degradation of various biomolecules, such as bacterial exopolysaccharides, starch, cellulose and lignin; and in the glycosylation of proteins and lipids. Carbohydrate-active enzymes are classified into glycoside hydrolases, glycosyltransferases, polysaccharide lyases, carbohydrate esterases, and enzymes with auxiliary activities (CAZy database, www.cazy.org). Glycosyltransferases synthesize a huge variety of complex carbohydrates with different degrees of polymerization, moieties and branching. On the other hand, complex carbohydrate breakdown is carried out by glycoside hydrolases, polysaccharide lyases and carbohydrate esterases. Their interesting reactions have attracted the attention of researchers across scientific fields, ranging from basic research to biotechnology. Interest in carbohydrate-active enzymes is due not only to their ability to build and degrade biopolymers-which is highly relevant in biotechnology-but also because they are involved in bacterial biofilm formation, and in glycosylation of proteins and lipids, with important health implications. This book gathers new research results and reviews to broaden our understanding of carbohydrate-active enzymes, their mutants and their reaction products at the molecular level.