title: Large-scale production of oligosaccharides using engineered bacteria.
abstract: Rapid advances in the cloning and expression of glycosyltransferase genes, especially from bacteria, could open the way to overcoming difficulties in the mass production of oligosaccharides. The large-scale production of oligosaccharides using either glycosyltransferases isolated from engineered microorganisms or whole cells as an enzyme source could promote a new era in the field of carbohydrate synthesis.
authors.affiliation: Tokyo Research Laboratories, Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co Ltd, 3-6-6, Asahi-machi, Machida-shi, 194-8533, Tokyo, Japan. endo.tetsuo@kyowa.co.jp
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Endo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Koizumi
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics*; D016695:Glycosyltransferases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D009844:Oligosaccharides; D016695:Glycosyltransferases