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Engineering gut microbiota-derived enzymes for glycosaminoglycan metabolism: Catalytic mechanisms, diversity, and technologies.
Biotechnology advances · · Review
Dong, Cui + 1 more
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Polysaccharide lyases and S1 sulfatases from gut microbiota are key to glycosaminoglycan metabolism, with family-level structural diversity linked to substrate-specific catalytic properties.
- Why it matters: GAG utilization in the gastrointestinal tract depends on microbial enzymes, but mechanistic understanding of their catalytic rules and diversity is needed to guide analytical and biotechnological use.
- What they did: This review synthesizes evidence on PL and S1 sulfatase catalytic mechanisms, substrate specificities, and pathway roles, emphasizing structural and functional variations within PL families and S1 sulfatase subfamilies.
- The result: Reported gut-adapted, substrate-specific enzyme behaviors provide a mechanistic basis for rational engineering, enabling selective transformation of dietary sulfated glycans and production of functional oligosaccharides.
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