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GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES

Divining sugar substrates

Nature Chemical Biology volume 14, pages 1071–1072 (2018)Cite this article

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Scientists have combined functional and computational analysis to predict the substrate specificity of a family of glycosyltransferases from Arabidopsis thaliana, creating a tool that enables researchers to classify the donor and acceptor specificity of glycosyltransferase enzymes.

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Fig. 1: Combined functional and computational analysis to predict glycosyltransferase specificity in one tool based on an exemplarily structure.

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