Some publications on Gly-technology

Li, Y., Baldauf, S., Lim, E.-K., and Bowles, D.J. (2001) Phylogenetic analysis of the UDP-glycosyltransferase multigene family of Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Biological Chemistry 276, 4338–4343.

Lim, E.-K., Baldauf, S., Li, Y., Elias, L., Worrall, D., Spencer, S.P., Jackson, R.G., Taguchi, G., Ross, J., and Bowles, D.J. (2003) Evolution of substrate recognition across a multigene family of glycosyltransferases in Arabidopsis. Glycobiology 13, 139–145.

Lim, E.-K., Ashford, D.A., Hou, B., Jackson, R.G., and Bowles, D.J. (2004) Arabidopsis glycosyltransferases as biocatalysts in fermentation for regioselective synthesis of diverse quercetin glucosides. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 87, 623–631.

Lim, E.-K., and Bowles, D.J. (2004) A class of plant glycosyltransferases involved in cellular homeostasis. EMBO Journal 23, 2915–2922.

Lim, E.-K., Doucet, C.J., Hou, B., Jackson, R.G., Abrams, S.R., and Bowles, D.J. (2005) Enantiomeric purification of (+)-abscisic acid using an Arabidopsis glycosyltransferase. Tetrahedron-Asymmetry 16, 143–147.

Priest, D.M., Jackson, R.G., Ashford, D.A., Abrams, S.R., and Bowles, D.J. (2005) The use of abscisic acid analogues to analyse the substrate selectivity of UGT71B6, a UDP-glycosyltransferase of Arabidopsis thaliana. FEBS Letter 579, 4454–4458.

Lim, E.-K. (2005) Plant glycosyltransferases as novel biocatalysts. Chemistry – a European Journal 11, 5486–5494.

Bowles, D., Lim, E.-K., Poppenberger, B., and Vaistij, F.E. (2006) Glycosyltransferases of lipophilic small molecules. Annual Review of Plant Biology 57, 567–597.

Weis, M., Lim, E.-K., Bruce, N., and Bowles, D. (2006) Regioselective glucosylation of aromatic compounds: screening of a recombinant GT library to identify new biocatalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 45, 3534–3538.

Lim, E.-K., Ashford, D.A., and Bowles, D.J. (2006) The synthesis of small molecule rhamnosides through rational design of a whole cell biocatalysis system. ChemBioChem 7, 1181–1185.

Lanot, A., Hodge, D., Jackson, R.G., George, G.L., Elias, L., Lim, E.-K., Vaistij, F.E., and Bowles, D.J. (2006) The glucosyltransferase UGT72E2 is responsible for monolignol 4-O-glucoside production in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Journal 48, 286–295.

Cartwright A, Lim E-K, Kleanthous C and Bowles DJ (2008) A kinetic analysis of regiospecific glucosylation by two glycosyltransferases of Arabidopsis thaliana: domain swapping to introduce new activities Journal of Biological Chemistry 283: 15724-731

Caputi L, Lim E-K and Bowles DJ (2008) Discovery of novel biocatalysts for the glycosylation of terpenoid scaffolds Chemistry, A European Journal 14: 6656-6662