Engineering of glycosylation in yeast and other fungi: current state and perspectives

K De Pourcq, K De Schutter, N Callewaert - Applied microbiology and …, 2010 - Springer
With the increasing demand for recombinant proteins and glycoproteins, research on hosts
for producing these proteins is focusing increasingly on more cost-effective expression …

Nucleotide sugar transporters: biological and functional aspects

R Gerardy-Schahn, S Oelmann, H Bakker - Biochimie, 2001 - Elsevier
The Golgi apparatus serves as the major site of glycosylation reactions. Nucleotide sugars
which are substrates of the Golgi localized glycosyltransferases are synthesized in the …

1, 2-cis O-Glycosylation: methods, strategies, principles

AV Demchenko - Current organic chemistry, 2003 - ingentaconnect.com
The aim of this review is to discuss the accomplishments made in the area of the
stereoselective formation of a 1, 2-cis glycosidic bond. Importance of this subject derives …

N-glycosylation engineering of biopharmaceutical expression systems

PP Jacobs, N Callewaert - Current molecular medicine, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
N-glycosylation, the enzymatic coupling of oligosaccharides to specific asparagine residues
of nascent polypeptide chains, is one of the most widespread post-translational …

Reconstruction of de novo pathway for synthesis of UDP‐glucuronic acid and UDP‐xylose from intrinsic UDP‐glucose in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

T Oka, Y Jigami - The FEBS journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
UDP‐d‐glucuronic acid and UDP‐d‐xylose are required for the biosynthesis of
glycosaminoglycan in mammals and of cell wall polysaccharides in plants. Given the …

Use of HDEL‐tagged Trichoderma reesei mannosyl oligosaccharide 1,2‐α‐D‐mannosidase for N‐glycan engineering in Pichia pastoris

N Callewaert, W Laroy, H Cadirgi, S Geysens… - FEBS …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Therapeutic glycoprotein production in the widely used expression host Pichia pastoris is
hampered by the differences in the protein‐linked carbohydrate biosynthesis between this …

Interaction of GDP-4-keto-6-deoxymannose-3, 5-epimerase-4-reductase with GDP-mannose-4, 6-dehydratase stabilizes the enzyme activity for formation of GDP …

K Nakayama, Y Maeda, Y Jigami - Glycobiology, 2003 - academic.oup.com
We cloned the GDP-4-keto-6-deoxymannose-3, 5-epimerase-4-reductase gene from
Arabidopsis thaliana (AtFX/GER1). The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was transfected …

Production in yeast of α-galactosidase A, a lysosomal enzyme applicable to enzyme replacement therapy for Fabry disease

Y Chiba, H Sakuraba, M Kotani, R Kase… - …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
A mammalian-like sugar moiety was created in glycoprotein by Saccharomyces cerevisiae
in combination with bacterial α-mannosidase to produce a more economic enzyme …

Characterization of yeast Yea4p, a uridine diphosphate-N-acetylglucosamine transporter localized in the endoplasmic reticulum and required for chitin synthesis

SK Roy, Y Chiba, M Takeuchi, Y Jigami - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2000 - ASBMB
Chitin is an essential cell wall component, synthesis of which is regulated throughout the cell
cycle in the yeastSaccharomyces cerevisiae. We cloned an S. cerevisiae gene, YEA4 …

Overexpression of HUT1 gene stimulates in vivo galactosylation by enhancing UDP–galactose transport activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

M Kainuma, Y Chiba, M Takeuchi, Y Jigami - Yeast, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Transfer of activated sugar‐nucleotides from the cytoplasm to the lumen of the Golgi is an
essential requirement for glycosylation of glycoproteins, proteoglycans and …