Potential of Native Sucrose-Utilizing Transglucosidases for Glucoside Synthesis

2 Potential of Native Sucrose-Utilizing Transglucosidases for Glucoside Synthesis 

Two main classes of enzymes enter into this definition glucansucrases (E.C.2.4.1.4, 

140) that catalyze the conversion of sucrose for the synthesis of high-molecular weight glucans, and sucrose phosphorylases (E.C.2.4.1.7) which catalyze the phosphorolysis of sucrose to produce glucose-1-phosphate. They both utilize sucrose as the sole source of energy to synthesize their products. 

Both glucansucrases and sucrose phosphorylases will be discussed herein, however, we will mostly focus on glucansucrases, on which extensive work has been done over recent years. 

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