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SUBMITTER: Asamizu S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3162038 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Asamizu Shumpei S Yang Jongtae J Almabruk Khaled H KH Mahmud Taifo T
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20110718 31
Glycosyltransferases are ubiquitous in nature. They catalyze a glycosidic bond formation between sugar donors and sugar or nonsugar acceptors to produce oligo/polysaccharides, glycoproteins, glycolipids, glycosylated natural products, and other sugar-containing entities. However, a trehalose 6-phosphate synthase-like protein has been found to catalyze an unprecedented nonglycosidic C-N bond formation in the biosynthesis of the aminocyclitol antibiotic validamycin A. This dedicated 'pseudoglycosy ...[more]