Despite the potential utility of C-glycosides, synthetic routes for their synthesis are limited. Here, the authors used rational directed evolution of the glycosyltransferase MiCGT to generate MiCGT-QDP and MiCGT-ATD mutants which either enhance C-glycosylation or switch to O-glycosylation, respectively, and reveal the substrate binding mode that governs C-/O-glycosylation selectivity.
- Min Li
- Yang Zhou
- Jian-bo Wang