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A two-stage one-pot enzymatic synthesis of TDP-L-mycarose from thymidine and glucose-1-phosphate.

Preparative synthesis of dTDP-L-rhamnose through combined enzymatic pathways.

Absence of nucleoside diphosphatase activities in the yeast secretory pathway does not abolish nucleotide sugar-dependent protein glycosylation.

A practical enzymatic synthesis of UDP sugars and NDP glucoses.

TDP-mycaminose biosynthetic pathway revised and conversion of desosamine pathway to mycaminose pathway with one gene.

An enzyme module system for the synthesis of dTDP-activated deoxysugars from dTMP and sucrose.

Comparative analysis of the exopolysaccharide biosynthesis gene clusters from four strains of Lactobacillus rhamnosus.

AknT is an activating protein for the glycosyltransferase AknS in L-aminodeoxysugar transfer to the aglycone of aclacinomycin A.

Functional characterizations of novWUS involved in novobiocin biosynthesis from Streptomyces spheroides.

Decrypting the biochemical function of an essential gene from Streptococcus pneumoniae using ThermoFluor technology.

High-throughput mass-spectrometry monitoring for multisubstrate enzymes: determining the kinetic parameters and catalytic activities of glycosyltransferases.

Synthesis of unnatural sugar nucleotides and their evaluation as donor substrates in glycosyltransferase-catalyzed reactions

Molecular structure of alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate cytidylyltransferase from Salmonella typhi.

Bifunctional catalysis by CDP-ribitol synthase: convergent recruitment of reductase and cytidylyltransferase activities in Haemophilus influenzae and Staphylococcus aureus.

Nucleotide sugar interconversions and cell wall biosynthesis: how to bring the inside to the outside

General assay for sugar nucleotidyltransferases using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.

Crystal structure of vancosaminyltransferase GtfD from the vancomycin biosynthetic pathway: interactions with acceptor and nucleotide ligands.

The O-antigen gene cluster of Shigella boydii O11 and functional identification of its wzy gene.

S-layer glycan-specific loci on the chromosome of Geobacillus stearothermophilus NRS 2004/3a and dTDP-L-rhamnose biosynthesis potential of G. stearothermophilus strains.

Identification and functional characterization of the Lactococcus lactis rfb operon, required for dTDP-rhamnose Biosynthesis.