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Glycosynthase

Index Glycosynthase

The term Glycosynthase refers to a class of proteins that have been engineered to catalyze the formation of a glycosidic bond. [1]

37 relations: Agrobacterium, Alanine, Alcohol, Amino acid, Anomer, Aspartic acid, Carboxylate, Catalysis, Directed evolution, Endoglycosidase, Enzyme, Exoglycosidase, Fluoride, Galactose, Glucose, Glucosidases, Glucuronic acid, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Glycoside, Glycoside hydrolase, Glycoside hydrolase family 1, Glycosidic bond, Hydrolase, Hydrolysis, Leaving group, Mannose, Mutagenesis, Mutation, Nucleophile, Oligosaccharide, Protein, Reaction mechanism, Regioselectivity, Substrate (chemistry), Trisaccharide, Xylose.

Agrobacterium

Agrobacterium is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria established by H. J. Conn that uses horizontal gene transfer to cause tumors in plants.

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Alanine

Alanine (symbol Ala or A) is an α-amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins.

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Alcohol

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a carbon.

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Amino acid

Amino acids are organic compounds containing amine (-NH2) and carboxyl (-COOH) functional groups, along with a side chain (R group) specific to each amino acid.

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Anomer

An anomer is a type of geometric variation found in at certain atoms in carbohydrate molecules.

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Aspartic acid

Aspartic acid (symbol Asp or D; salts known as aspartates), is an α-amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins.

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Carboxylate

A carboxylate is a salt or ester of a carboxylic acid.

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Catalysis

Catalysis is the increase in the rate of a chemical reaction due to the participation of an additional substance called a catalysthttp://goldbook.iupac.org/C00876.html, which is not consumed in the catalyzed reaction and can continue to act repeatedly.

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Directed evolution

Directed evolution (DE, "gelenkte Evolution") is a method used in protein engineering that mimics the process of natural selection to evolve proteins or nucleic acids toward a user-defined goal.

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Endoglycosidase

An Endoglycosidase is an enzyme that releases oligosaccharides from glycoproteins or glycolipids.

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Enzyme

Enzymes are macromolecular biological catalysts.

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Exoglycosidase

A exoglycosidase is a glycoside hydrolase enzyme which breaks the glycosidic bonds at the terminal residue.

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Fluoride

Fluoride.

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Galactose

Galactose (galacto- + -ose, "milk sugar"), sometimes abbreviated Gal, is a monosaccharide sugar that is about as sweet as glucose, and about 30% as sweet as sucrose.

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Glucose

Glucose is a simple sugar with the molecular formula C6H12O6.

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Glucosidases

Glucosidases are glycoside hydrolase enzymes categorized under the EC number 3.2.1.

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Glucuronic acid

Glucuronic acid (from Greek γλυκύς "sweet" and οὖρον "urine") is a uronic acid that was first isolated from urine (hence the name).

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Glutamic acid

Glutamic acid (symbol Glu or E) is an α-amino acid with formula.

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Glycine

Glycine (symbol Gly or G) is the amino acid that has a single hydrogen atom as its side chain.

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Glycoside

In chemistry, a glycoside is a molecule in which a sugar is bound to another functional group via a glycosidic bond.

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Glycoside hydrolase

Glycoside hydrolases (also called glycosidases or glycosyl hydrolases) catalyze the hydrolysis of glycosidic bonds in complex sugars.

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Glycoside hydrolase family 1

Glycoside hydrolase family 1 is a family of glycoside hydrolases.

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Glycosidic bond

In chemistry, a glycosidic bond or glycosidic linkage is a type of covalent bond that joins a carbohydrate (sugar) molecule to another group, which may or may not be another carbohydrate.

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Hydrolase

Hydrolase is a class of enzyme that is commonly used as biochemical catalysts that utilize water to break a chemical bond.

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Hydrolysis

Hydrolysis is a term used for both an electro-chemical process and a biological one.

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Leaving group

In chemistry, a leaving group is a molecular fragment that departs with a pair of electrons in heterolytic bond cleavage.

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Mannose

Mannose, packaged as the nutritional supplement "d-mannose", is a sugar monomer of the aldohexose series of carbohydrates.

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Mutagenesis

Mutagenesis is a process by which the genetic information of an organism is changed, resulting in a mutation.

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Mutation

In biology, a mutation is the permanent alteration of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA or other genetic elements.

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Nucleophile

Nucleophile is a chemical species that donates an electron pair to an electrophile to form a chemical bond in relation to a reaction.

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Oligosaccharide

An oligosaccharide (from the Greek ὀλίγος olígos, "a few", and σάκχαρ sácchar, "sugar") is a saccharide polymer containing a small number (typically three to ten) of monosaccharides (simple sugars).

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Reaction mechanism

In chemistry, a reaction mechanism is the step by step sequence of elementary reactions by which overall chemical change occurs.

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Regioselectivity

In chemistry, regioselectivity is the preference of one direction of chemical bond making or breaking over all other possible directions.

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Substrate (chemistry)

In chemistry, a substrate is typically the chemical species being observed in a chemical reaction, which reacts with a reagent to generate a product.

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Trisaccharide

Trisaccharides are oligosaccharides composed of three monosaccharides with two glycosidic bonds connecting them.

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Xylose

Xylose (cf. ξύλον, xylon, "wood") is a sugar first isolated from wood, and named for it.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycosynthase

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