title: [Progress on molecular biology of trehalose synthase--a review].
abstract: Trehalose synthase inverts maltose into trehalose, and plays a very important role in trehalose industrial production. Here we reviewed the recent progress on studies of molecular biology including the cloning of trehalose synthase gene, gene engineering application, structure and catalytic mechanism and the role of the enzyme in vivo.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, Department of Microbiology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China. zymxiaozhu@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Yueming
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Laijun
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xing
authors.forename: Mingchun
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002384:Catalysis; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005544:Forecasting; D005964:Glucosyltransferases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008320:Maltose / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015202:Protein Engineering; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D014199:Trehalose / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D008320:Maltose; D014199:Trehalose; D005964:Glucosyltransferases; C099692:trehalose synthase