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1,2-alpha-l-Fucosynthase: a glycosynthase derived from an inverting alpha-glycosidase with an unusual reaction mechanism.

scientific article

1,2-β-Oligoglucan phosphorylase from Listeria innocua

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1,3-1,4- -L-Fucosynthase That Specifically Introduces Lewis a/x Antigens into Type-1/2 Chains

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2-Acetamido-2-de-oxy-3-O-β-d-galactopyranosyl-d-glucose dihydrate

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2-O-α-D-glucosylglycerol phosphorylase from Bacillus selenitireducens MLS10 possessing hydrolytic activity on β-D-glucose 1-phosphate

scientific article published on 22 January 2014

3-O-α-D-glucopyranosyl-L-rhamnose phosphorylase from Clostridium phytofermentans

scientific article

A New Method of Carbohydrate Synthesis in Both Solution and Solid Phases Using a Special Hydroxy Protecting Group

A Thermostable Non-xylanolytic α-Glucuronidase ofThermotoga maritimaMSB8

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A cellobiose phosphorylase from Cellvibrio gilvus recognizes only the β-d-form of 5a-carba-glucopyranose

scientific article published on 01 September 1993

A chemoenzymatic route to N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate analogues: substrate specificity investigations of N-acetylhexosamine 1-kinase

scientific article

A cycloamylose-forming hyperthermostable 4-α-glucanotransferase of Aquifex aeolicus expressed in Escherichia coli

scholarly article by Shakhawat Hossain Bhuiyan et al published April 2003 in Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic

A family 8 glycoside hydrolase from Bacillus halodurans C-125 (BH2105) is a reducing end xylose-releasing exo-oligoxylanase

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A glycosynthase derived from an inverting GH19 chitinase from the mossBryum coronatum

article published in 2012

A glycosynthase derived from an inverting chitinase with an extended binding cleft

scientific article

A kinetic study on pH-activity relationship of XynA from alkaliphilic Bacillus halodurans C-125 using aryl-xylobiosides.

scientific article

A new oligosaccharide synthesis using special hydroxy protecting group

A reducing-end-acting chitinase from Vibrio proteolyticus belonging to glycoside hydrolase family 19.

scientific article published on 23 January 2008

A simple method of cellulase immobilization on a modified silica support

A synergistic reaction mechanism of a cycloalternan-forming enzyme and a D-glucosyltransferase for the production of cycloalternan in Bacillus sp. NRRL B-21195.

scientific article published in October 2003

A β1-6/β1-3 galactosidase from Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis Bl-04 gives insight into sub-specificities of β-galactoside catabolism within Bifidobacterium

scientific article

Alternative strategy for converting an inverting glycoside hydrolase into a glycosynthase

scientific article published on 9 February 2008

An inverting β-1,2-mannosidase belonging to glycoside hydrolase family 130 fromDyadobacter fermentans

scholarly article by Takanori Nihira published in October 2015

An investigation of the pH-activity relationships of Cex, a family 10 xylanase from Cellulomonas fimi: xylan inhibition and the influence of nitro-substituted aryl-β-d-xylobiosides on xylanase activity

article published in 2002

Bifidobacterial enzymes involved in the metabolism of human milk oligosaccharides

scientific article published on May 2012

Bifidobacterium bifidum lacto-N-biosidase, a critical enzyme for the degradation of human milk oligosaccharides with a type 1 structure.

scientific article published on 9 May 2008

Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis uses two different β-galactosidases for selectively degrading type-1 and type-2 human milk oligosaccharides

scientific article

Characterization and crystal structure determination of β-1,2-mannobiose phosphorylase from Listeria innocua

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Characterization of Bacillus halodurans alpha-galactosidase Mel4A encoded by the mel4A gene (BH2228).

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Characterization of Glycosynthase Mutants Derived from Glycoside Hydrolase Family 10 Xylanases

Characterization of a bacterial laminaribiose phosphorylase

scientific article

Characterization of a cellobiose phosphorylase from a hyperthermophilic eubacterium, Thermotoga maritima MSB8.

scientific article published in December 2002

Characterization of a hyperthermostable glycogen phosphorylase from Aquifex aeolicus expressed in Escherichia coli

scholarly article by Shakhawat Hossain Bhuiyan et al published June 2003 in Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic

Characterization of a laminaribiose phosphorylase from Acholeplasma laidlawii PG-8A and production of 1,3-β-D-glucosyl disaccharides

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Characterization of a thermophilic 4-O-β-D-mannosyl-D-glucose phosphorylase from Rhodothermus marinus

scientific article published on 14 April 2014

Characterization of a thermostable family 10 endo-xylanase (XynB) from Thermotoga maritima that cleaves p-nitrophenyl-β-d-xyloside

Characterization of beta-1,3-galactosyl-N-acetylhexosamine phosphorylase from Propionibacterium acnes

scientific article published on 9 January 2009

Characterization of d-galactosyl-β1→4-l-rhamnose phosphorylase from Opitutus terrae

Characterization of raffinose synthase from rice (Oryza sativa L. var. Nipponbare).

scientific article published on 6 January 2007

Characterization of three beta-galactoside phosphorylases from Clostridium phytofermentans: discovery of d-galactosyl-beta1->4-l-rhamnose phosphorylase

scientific article

Chitobiose phosphorylase from Vibrio proteolyticus, a member of glycosyl transferase family 36, has a clan GH-L-like (alpha/alpha)(6) barrel fold

scientific article

Colorimetric quantification of cellobiose employing cellobiose phosphorylase

scientific article published in May 2001

Colorimetric quantification of α-d-galactose 1-phosphate

scientific article published in 2007

Computational analyses of the conformational itinerary along the reaction pathway of GH94 cellobiose phosphorylase

scientific article

Construction and characterization of chimeric enzymes of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Thermotoga maritima β-glucosidases

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Cooperation of β-galactosidase and β-N-acetylhexosaminidase from bifidobacteria in assimilation of human milk oligosaccharides with type 2 structure

scientific article published on 24 June 2010

Crystal Structure and Substrate Recognition of Cellobionic Acid Phosphorylase, Which Plays a Key Role in Oxidative Cellulose Degradation by Microbes

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Crystal Structure of Glycoside Hydrolase Family 55  -1,3-Glucanase from the Basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium

scientific article

Crystal Structure of an Exo-1,5- -L-arabinofuranosidase from Streptomyces avermitilis Provides Insights into the Mechanism of Substrate Discrimination between Exo- and Endo-type Enzymes in Glycoside Hydrolase Family 43

scientific article

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of cellobiose phosphorylase from Cellvibrio gilvus

scientific article published on 23 September 2004

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of reducing-end xylose-releasing exo-oligoxylanase from Bacillus halodurans C-125.

scientific article

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of xylanase B from Clostridium stercorarium

scientific article published on 23 January 2004

Directed evolution to enhance thermostability of galacto-N-biose/lacto-N-biose I phosphorylase

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Discovery of cellobionic acid phosphorylase in cellulolytic bacteria and fungi

scientific journal article

Discovery of nigerose phosphorylase from Clostridium phytofermentans

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Discovery of two β-1,2-mannoside phosphorylases showing different chain-length specificities from Thermoanaerobacter sp. X-514.

scientific article

Discovery of α-L-arabinopyranosidases from human gut microbiome expands the diversity within glycoside hydrolase family 42.

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Discovery of β-1,4-D-mannosyl-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine phosphorylase involved in the metabolism of N-glycans

scientific article published on 13 August 2013

Distinct substrate specificities of three glycoside hydrolase family 42 β-galactosidases from Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis ATCC 15697.

scientific article published on 23 November 2013

Distribution of in vitro fermentation ability of lacto-N-biose I, a major building block of human milk oligosaccharides, in bifidobacterial strains

scientific article

Diversity and similarity of microbial communities in petroleum crude oils produced in Asia

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Effect of growth temperature, induction, and molecular chaperones on the solubilization of over-expressed cellobiose phosphorylase from Cellvibrio Gilvus under in vivo conditions

Effects of truncation at the non-homologous region of a family 3 beta-glucosidase from Agrobacterium tumefaciens

scientific article published in May 2004

Employing chimeric xylanases to identify regions of an alkaline xylanase participating in enzyme activity at basic pH

Employing chimeric xylanases to identify regions of an alkaline xylanase participating in enzyme activity at basic pH

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Enhancement of transglycosylation activity by construction of chimeras between mesophilic and thermophilic beta-glucosidase

scientific article published in November 2002

Enzymatic hydrolysis of 1,3-1,4-beta-glucosyl oligosaccharides by 1,3-1,4-beta-glucanase from Synechocystis PCC6803: a comparison with assays using polymer and chromophoric oligosaccharide substrates

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Enzymatic synthesis of a library of beta-(1-->4) hetero- D-glucose and D-xylose-based oligosaccharides employing cellodextrin phosphorylase

scientific article

Erratum to “Purification and characterization of an intracellular cycloalternandegrading enzyme from Bacillus sp. NRRL B-21195” [Carbohydr. Res. 339 (2004) 1179]

scholarly article published in Carbohydrate Research

Error-prone rolling circle amplification greatly simplifies random mutagenesis

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Error-prone rolling circle amplification: the simplest random mutagenesis protocol

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Evidence that the putative alpha-glucosidase of Thermotoga maritima MSB8 is a pNP alpha-D-glucuronopyranoside hydrolyzing alpha-glucuronidase

scientific article

Evolutionary adaptation in fucosyllactose uptake systems supports bifidobacteria-infant symbiosis

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Expression and Characterization of Recombinant Sucrose Phosphorylase

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Facile enzymatic synthesis of sugar 1-phosphates as substrates for phosphorylases using anomeric kinases

scientific article published on 25 October 2014

Facile preparation of highly crystalline lamellae of (1→3)-β-d-glucan using an extract of Euglena gracilis

scholarly article by Yu Ogawa published in March 2014

Functional and Structural Analysis of a β-Glucosidase Involved in β-1,2-Glucan Metabolism in Listeria innocua

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Functional reassignment ofCellvibrio vulgarisEpiA to cellobiose 2-epimerase and an evaluation of the biochemical functions of the 4-O-β-d-mannosyl-d-glucose phosphorylase-like protein, UnkA

Fusion of family 2b carbohydrate-binding module increases the catalytic activity of a xylanase from Thermotoga maritima to soluble xylan

scientific article published in August 2003

Fusion of family VI cellulose binding domains to Bacillus halodurans xylanase increases its catalytic activity and substrate-binding capacity to insoluble xylan

Galacto-N-biose is neuroprotective against glutamate-induced excitotoxicity in vitro.

scientific article

General function of N-terminal propeptide on assisting protein folding and inhibiting catalytic activity based on observations with a chimeric thermolysin-like protease

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Glycosynthases from Inverting Hydrolases

Hydrolysis of beta-1,3/1,6-glucan by glycoside hydrolase family 16 endo-1,3(4)-beta-glucanase from the basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium

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Identification of Bacillus selenitireducens MLS10 maltose phosphorylase possessing synthetic ability for branched α-D-glucosyl trisaccharides

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Identification of N-acetylhexosamine 1-kinase in the complete lacto-N-biose I/galacto-N-biose metabolic pathway in Bifidobacterium longum

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Identification of amino acid residues that determine the substrate preference of 1,3-β-galactosyl-N-acetylhexosamine phosphorylase

Identification of difructose dianhydride I synthase/hydrolase from an oral bacterium establishes a novel glycoside hydrolase family

scientific article published on 22 October 2021

Identification of galacto-N-biose phosphorylase from Clostridium perfringens ATCC13124.

scientific article published on 9 January 2008

Identification of lacto-N-Biose I phosphorylase from Vibrio vulnificus CMCP6

scientific article published on 22 August 2008

Identification of the putative proton donor residue of lacto-N-biose phosphorylase (EC 2.4.1.211).

scientific article published in June 2007

Identification, functional characterization, and crystal structure determination of bacterial levoglucosan dehydrogenase

scientific article published in Journal of Biological Chemistry

Improving Enzyme Character by Molecular Breeding: Preparation of Chimeric Genes

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Improving enzyme characteristics by gene shuffling; application to β-glucosidase

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In vitro comparative evaluation of the impact of lacto-N-biose I, a major building block of human milk oligosaccharides, on the fecal microbiota of infants

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In vitro stepwise autoprocessing of the proform of pro-aminopeptidase processing protease from Aeromonas caviae T-64.

scientific article published in April 2002

Introduction of H-antigens into oligosaccharides and sugar chains of glycoproteins using highly efficient 1,2-α-l-fucosynthase.

scientific article

Kinetic Studies onp-Nitrophenyl-cellobioside Hydrolyzing Xylanase fromCellvibrio gilvus

Kinetic evidence related to substrate-assisted catalysis of family 18 chitinases.

scientific article

Kinetic studies on the hydrolysis of N-acetylated and N-deacetylated derivatives of 4-methylumbelliferyl chitobioside by the family 18 chitinases ChiA and ChiB from Serratia marcescens

scientific article published in February 2003

Kinetics of substrate transglycosylation by glycoside hydrolase family 3 glucan (1-->3)-beta-glucosidase from the white-rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium.

scientific article published in December 2004

Lacto-N-biosidase encoded by a novel gene of Bifidobacterium longum subspecies longum shows unique substrate specificity and requires a designated chaperone for its active expression

scientific article published on 10 July 2013

Large-scale preparation of highly purified dextransucrase from a high-producing constitutive mutant of Leuconostoc mesenteroides B-512FMC

Mechanism of the action of Leuconostoc mesenteroides B-512FMC dextransucrase: kinetics of the transfer of d-glucose to maltose and the effects of enzyme and substrate concentrations

Milk Oligosaccharides

scholarly article published 2009

Molecular Anatomy of the Alkaliphilic Xylanase from Bacillus halodurans C-125

scientific article published in 2007

Molecular Insight into Evolution of Symbiosis between Breast-Fed Infants and a Member of the Human Gut Microbiome Bifidobacterium longum.

scientific article published on 4 April 2017

Novel PCR-mediated mutagenesis employing DNA containing a natural abasic site as a template and translesional Taq DNA polymerase

scientific article published on 25 December 2004

Novel putative galactose operon involving lacto-N-biose phosphorylase in Bifidobacterium longum

scientific article

Novel substrate specificities of two lacto-N-biosidases towards β-linked galacto-N-biose-containing oligosaccharides of globo H, Gb5, and GA1.

scientific article

One-pot enzymatic production of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-d-galactose (GalNAc) from 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-d-glucose (GlcNAc)

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One-pot enzymatic production of beta-D-galactopyranosyl-(1-->3)-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galactose (galacto-N-biose) from sucrose and 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galactose (N-acetylgalactosamine).

scientific article published in October 2009

Open-close structural change upon ligand binding and two magnesium ions required for the catalysis of N-acetylhexosamine 1-kinase

scientific article

Phosphorolytic Reaction ofCellvibrio gilvusCellobiose Phosphorylase

Physiology of consumption of human milk oligosaccharides by infant gut-associated bifidobacteria

scientific article

Potassium ion-dependent trehalose phosphorylase from halophilic Bacillus selenitireducens MLS10.

scientific article published on 8 September 2013

Practical preparation of D-galactosyl-beta1-->4-L-rhamnose employing the combined action of phosphorylases

scientific article published on 7 August 2010

Practical preparation of lacto-N-biose I, a candidate for the bifidus factor in human milk

scientific article published on 7 August 2007

Prebiotic effect of lacto-N-biose I on bifidobacterial growth.

scientific article published on 7 May 2009

Production of glucosyl-xylose using Cellvibrio gilvus cells and its properties

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Purification and Properties of Laminaribiose Phosphorylase (EC 2.4. 1.31) from Euglena gracilis Z

article published in 1993

Purification and Properties of a Xylanase from Cellvibrio gilvus That Hydrolyzes p-Nitrophenyl Cellooligosaccharides

scientific article published on 01 August 1991

Purification and Properties of a Xylanase fromCellvibrio gilvusThat Hydrolyzesp-Nitrophenyl Cellooligosaccharides

Purification and characterization of an intracellular cycloalternan-degrading enzyme from Bacillus sp. NRRL B-21195.

scientific article published in April 2004

Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of beta-glucosidase from Kluyveromyces marxianus NBRC1777

scientific article (publication date: November 2009)

Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the galacto-N-biose-/lacto-N-biose I-binding protein (GL-BP) of the ABC transporter from Bifidobacterium longum JCM1217.

scientific article published on 10 August 2007

RAISE: a simple and novel method of generating random insertion and deletion mutations

scientific article

Random insertional-deletional strand exchange mutagenesis (RAISE): a simple method for generating random insertion and deletion mutations

scientific article published in January 2014

Reaction mechanism of chitobiose phosphorylase from Vibrio proteolyticus: identification of family 36 glycosyltransferase in Vibrio

scientific article

Reaction on D-glucal by an inverting phosphorylase to synthesize derivatives of 2-deoxy-beta-D-arabino-hexopyranosyl-(1-->4)-D-glucose (2II-deoxycellobiose).

scientific article published on 23 January 2006

Recent development of phosphorylases possessing large potential for oligosaccharide synthesis

scientific article published on 08 February 2013

Role of a PA14 domain in determining substrate specificity of a glycoside hydrolase family 3 β-glucosidase from Kluyveromyces marxianus

scientific article

Sharing of human milk oligosaccharides degradants within bifidobacterial communities in faecal cultures supplemented with Bifidobacterium bifidum

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Strategy for Converting an Inverting Glycoside Hydrolase into a Glycosynthase

Structural Basis for Reversible Phosphorolysis and Hydrolysis Reactions of 2-O- -Glucosylglycerol Phosphorylase

scientific article

Structural and thermodynamic analyses of solute-binding Protein from Bifidobacterium longum specific for core 1 disaccharide and lacto-N-biose I

scientific article

Structural basis for broad substrate specificity of UDP-glucose 4-epimerase in the human milk oligosaccharide catabolic pathway of Bifidobacterium longum

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Structural basis for the specificity of the reducing end xylose-releasing exo-oligoxylanase from Bacillus halodurans C-125.

scientific article

Structural dissection of the reaction mechanism of cellobiose phosphorylase

scientific article published on August 2006

Structural explanation for the acquisition of glycosynthase activity

scientific article

Structural insights into the difference in substrate recognition of two mannoside phosphorylases from two GH130 subfamilies

scientific article

Structure of a bacterial glycoside hydrolase family 63 enzyme in complex with its glycosynthase product, and insights into the substrate specificity

scientific article

Substrate Specificity of the N,6-O-Diacetylmuramidase from Streptomyces globisporus

Substrate specificity of N-acetylhexosamine kinase towards N-acetylgalactosamine derivatives

scientific article

Syntheses of 4-Methylumbelliferyl-β-D-Xylobioside and 5-Bromo-3-Indolyl-β-D-Xylobioside for Sensitive Detection of Xylanase Activity on Agar Plates

Synthesis of Laminarioligosaccharides Using Crude Extract ofEuglena graciliszCells

Synthesis of cellobiose from starch by the successive actions of two phosphorylases.

scientific article published on 22 July 2009

Synthesis of highly ordered cellulose II in vitro using cellodextrin phosphorylase

scientific article published on 30 October 2009

Synthesis of laminarioligosaccharides using crude extract of Euglena gracilis z cells

The First Glycosynthase Derived from an Inverting Glycoside Hydrolase

scientific article published in Journal of Biological Chemistry

The crystal structure of an inverting glycoside hydrolase family 9 exo-β-D-glucosaminidase and the design of glycosynthase

scientific article

The crystal structure of galacto-N-biose/lacto-N-biose I phosphorylase: a large deformation of a TIM barrel scaffold

scientific article

The role of conserved arginine residue in loop 4 of glycoside hydrolase family 10 xylanases

scientific article published in May 2005

The role of the N-terminal propeptide of the pro-aminopeptidase processing protease: refolding, processing, and enzyme inhibition

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Thermal decomposition of beta-D-galactopyranosyl-(1-->3)-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-hexopyranoses under neutral conditions

scientific article published on 15 June 2010

Use of a Microtiter Plate Screening Method for Obtaining Leuconostoc mesenteroides Mutants Constitutive for Glucansucrase

Varied Pathways of Infant Gut-Associated Bifidobacterium to Assimilate Human Milk Oligosaccharides: Prevalence of the Gene Set and Its Correlation with Bifidobacteria-Rich Microbiota Formation

scientific article published on 26 December 2019

α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase from infant-associated bifidobacteria belonging to novel glycoside hydrolase family 129 is implicated in alternative mucin degradation pathway

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

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