A chemoenzymatic route to N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate analogues: substrate specificity investigations of N-acetylhexosamine 1-kinase

Li Cai, Wanyi Guan, Motomitsu Kitaoka, Jie Shen, Chengfeng Xia, Wenlan Chen, Peng George Wang

Chemical Communications · 2009 · 84 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

Reports an efficient chemoenzymatic production of an N-acetylhexosamine 1-phophate analogues library by N-acetylhexosamine 1-kinase (NahK) and describes the respective substrate specificity on this enzyme.

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