Harnessing Plant Sugar Metabolism for Glycoengineering
Sophia N. Tang, Collin R. Barnum, Matthew J. Szarzanowicz, Sasilada Sirirungruang, Patrick M. Shih · 2023
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Description
Sophia Tang, Collin Barnum, Matthew Szarzanowicz, Sasilada Sirirungruang, and Patrick Shih reviewed in 2023 how plants can be turned into sugar-based factories. Plants make huge amounts of sugar and a wide range of sugar-built compounds for medicine, industry, and farming. The crossroads molecules are nucleotide sugars, which feed everything from small glycosides to giant cell-wall polymers.
Plants tolerate a disturbed balance of those sugars, so engineers can push production toward one product without rebuilding the whole upstream pathway. Foreign pathways can even supply sugars the plant never made, opening entirely new products. Added transfer enzymes widen the menu further, and transporters stock more sugar where it is needed. Readers get a strategy map for glycoengineering: borrow the plant's sugar economy rather than fight it.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sophia N. Tang, Collin R. Barnum, Matthew J. Szarzanowicz, Sasilada Sirirungruang, Patrick M. Shih |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 18 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |