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ReviewChemical reviews2026

Catalyzing Carbohydrate Cleavage: Glycosidases and Their Mechanisms.

Herman S Overkleeft, Gideon J Davies, Spencer J Williams

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Review in Chemical reviews, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Herman S OverkleeftDepartment of Bio-organic Synthesis, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-6976-7005
Gideon J DaviesYork Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York YO10 5DD, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-7343-776X
Spencer J WilliamsSchool of Chemistry and Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6341-4364

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycoside hydrolases, "glycosidases", catalyze carbohydrate catabolism, remodeling, and signaling by accelerating glycosidic-bond cleavage by more than 17 orders of magnitude. Distributed across every kingdom of life and grouped into over 180 sequence-defined families, these enzymes exhibit exceptional diversity in fold, mechanism, and physiological function, and many also catalyze transglycosylation or phosphorolysis. The classical Koshland paradigms─stereochemical inversion, enzymatic nucleophile-assisted retention, and substrate-assisted retention─are analyzed with an emphasis on the conformational itineraries and oxocarbenium ion-like transition states revealed by kinetic isotope effects, linear free-energy relationships, and high-resolution three-dimensional structures. Attention then turns to noncanonical enzymes that employ NAD

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Glycoside HydrolasesBiocatalysisCarbohydrate MetabolismHumansGlycoside Hydrolases

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PMID41712507
PMCPMC13292948

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