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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 133, Issue 28, Pages 10892-10900Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja202788q
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- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation via the Wallenberg Wood Science Center
- Vetenskapsradet, Formas (via CarboMat)
- Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (via Biomime)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- Royal Society
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/D522511/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The current drive for applications of biomass-derived compounds, for energy and advanced materials, has led to a resurgence of interest in the manipulation of plant polymers. The xyloglucans, a family of structurally complex plant polysaccharides, have attracted significant interest due to their intrinsic high affinity for cellulose, both in muro and in technical applications. Moreover, current cell wall models are limited by the lack of detailed structure-property relationships of xyloglucans, due to a lack of molecules with well-defined branching patterns. Here, we have developed a new, broad-specificity xyloglucan glycosynthase, selected from active-site mutants of a bacterial endoxyloglucanase, which catalyzed the synthesis of high molar mass polysaccharides, with complex side-chain structures, from suitable glycosyl fluoride donor substrates. The product range was further extended by combination with an Arabidopsis thaliana alpha(1 -> 2)-fucosyltransferase to achieve the in vitro synthesis of fucosylated xyloglucans typical of dicot primary cell walls. These enzymes thus comprise a toolkit for the controlled enzymatic synthesis of xyloglucans that are otherwise impossible to obtain from native sources. Moreover, this study demonstrates the validity of a chemo-enzymatic approach to polysaccharide synthesis, in which the simplicity and economy of glycosynthase technology is harnessed together with the exquisite specificity of glycosyltransferases to control molecular complexity.
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