Aldolase Screening Assay

The reactive open-chain substrate 29 with the natural D-threo configuration was prepared along a chemoenzymatic route by making use of the common constitutional and stereochemical relationship which substrates of transaldolase share with those of transketolase. Thus, the R-configured 2-hydroxyaldehyde 28 was chain-extended under transketolase catalysis in the presence of 20 as ketol donor to yield the desired aldol. By this approach, several transaldolases could indeed be shown to display different levels of kinetic stereoselectivity. 

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Fig. 17. Nucleotidyltransferase substrate screening assay (NUSSA). A Nucleotide sugar-synthesizing nucleotidyltransferase (EC 2.7.7), B PPrdependent phosphofructokinase (EC 2.7.2.90), C Aldolase (EC 4.1.2.13), D Triose-phosphate isomerase (EC 5.3.1.1), E Glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.8) [336]...

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