“…The natural moisturizer α-D-glucosyl-sn-glycerol (GG), produced industrially using glycosylation of glycerol catalyzed by sucrose phosphorylase (SucP; Bolivar, Luley-Goedl, Leitner, Sawangwan, & Nidetzky, 2017;Goedl, Sawangwan, Mueller, Schwarz, & Nidetzky, 2008;Luley-Goedl, Sawangwan, Mueller, Schwarz, & Nidetzky, 2010), represents a number of hydrolase-promoted transfer reactions for which the reaction scheme shown in Figure 1 is likely an oversimplification (e.g., Fernandez-Lafuente, Rosell, & Guisan, 1998;Gololobov et al, 1988Gololobov et al, , 1990Kasche, 1986;Terreni et al, 2005;Vera, Guerrero, Wilson, & Illanes, 2017;Youshko et al, 2002). The SucP can use sucrose (1) or G1P (2) as donor for GG (3) formation (Goedl, Sawangwan, et al, 2008;Goedl, Schwarz, Minani, & Nidetzky, 2007;Renirie, Pukin, van Lagen, & Franssen, 2010).…”