7.7 Conclusion
Glycosyltransferases are a very important class of enzymes which can be found in biosynthetic gene clusters of a variety of natural compounds. Some of these GTs show a remarkable flexibility towards the donor and the acceptor molecules making them most valuable for combinatorial biosynthesis. Future work is expected to focus on learning more about sugar biosynthesis, sugar modification and sugar attachment to support in vivo engineering of novel natural products.
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Bechthold, A. et al. (2005). Glycosyltransferases and Other Tailoring Enzymes as Tools for the Generation of Novel Compounds. In: Wohlleben, W., Spellig, T., Müller-Tiemann, B. (eds) Biocombinatorial Approaches for Drug Finding. Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27055-8_7
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