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Resources and Methods for Engineering "Designer" Glycan-Binding Proteins.

Author(s): Warkentin R, Kwan DH

This review provides information on available methods for engineering glycan-binding proteins (GBP). Glycans are involved in a variety of physiological functions and are found in all domains of life and viruses. Due to their wide range of functions, GBPs ha...

Article GUID: 33450899
Enzymatic Synthesis of a Fluorogenic Reporter Substrate and the Development of a High-Throughput Assay for Fucosyltransferase VIII Provide a Toolkit to Probe and Inhibit Core Fucosylation.

Author(s): Soroko M, Kwan DH

Biochemistry. 2020 Jun 01;: Authors: Soroko M, Kwan DH

Article GUID: 32441090
Structure-Guided Directed Evolution of Glycosidases: A Case Study in Engineering a Blood Group Antigen-Cleaving Enzyme.

Author(s): Kwan DH

Methods Enzymol. 2017;597:25-53 Authors: Kwan DH

Article GUID: 28935105
Title:Enzymatic Synthesis of a Fluorogenic Reporter Substrate and the Development of a High-Throughput Assay for Fucosyltransferase VIII Provide a Toolkit to Probe and Inhibit Core Fucosylation.
Authors:Soroko M,  Kwan DH
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32441090?dopt=Abstract
DOI:10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00286
Category:Biochemistry
PMID:32441090
Dept Affiliation: CHEMBIOCHEM
1 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4B 1R6.
2 Department of Biology, Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology, and Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4B 1R6.

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Enzymatic Synthesis of a Fluorogenic Reporter Substrate and the Development of a High-Throughput Assay for Fucosyltransferase VIII Provide a Toolkit to Probe and Inhibit Core Fucosylation.

Biochemistry. 2020 Jun 01;:

Authors: Soroko M, Kwan DH

Abstract

We report a straightforward enzymatic synthesis of the 4-methylumbelliferyl glycoside of a complex-type oligosaccharide substrate for core fucosylation. We demonstrate the use of this synthetic glycoconjugate in a newly developed enzyme assay to probe the activity and inhibition of fucosyltransferase VIII, which catalyzes the core fucosylation of N-glycans on eukaryotic glycoproteins. In this fucosyltransferase assay, we use the fluorogenic probe and a specific glycosidase in a sequentially coupled enzyme reaction to distinguish an unmodified 4-methylumbelliferyl oligosaccharide probe from a fucosylated probe. Our findings show that this strategy is very sensitive and specific in its detection of enzyme activity and can even be used for analyzing impure tissue lysate samples.

PMID: 32441090 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]