Enzymes are nature's catalyst of choice for the highly selective and efficient coupling of carbohydrates. Enzymatic sugar coupling is a competitive technology for industrial glycosylation reactions, since chemical synthetic routes require extensive use of laborious protection group manipulations and often lack regio-and stereoselectivity. The application of Leloir glycosyltransferases has received considerable attention in recent years and offers excellent control over the reactivity and selectivity of glycosylation reactions with unprotected carbohydrates, paving the way for previously inaccessible synthetic routes. The development of nucleotide recycling cascades has allowed for the efficient production and reuse of nucleotide sugar donors in robust one-pot multi-enzyme glycosylation cascades. In this way, large glycans and glycoconjugates with complex stereochemistry can be constructed. With recent advances, LeLoir glycosyltransferases are close to being applied industrially in multi-enzyme, programmable cascade glycosylations.hydroxynitrile lyases catalyzed the enzymatic hydrolysis of the glycoside amygdalin [3]. Moving almost two centuries forward, the largest volumetric biocatalytic industrial process is the application of glucose isomerase for the production of high fructose syrup for food and drink applications, producing fructose from glucose at 10 7 tons per year [4]. The secret of the success of enzymes in the production or treatment of carbohydrates and glycosides is their exquisite stereo-and regioselectivity. The excellent selectivity of enzymes is required due to the diversity of structural features of carbohydrates [5], comprising d-and l-epimers, ring size, anomeric configuration, linkages, branching, and oxidation state(s). Since drug targets often exhibit specificity for all of these structural features, the production process should not contain any side-products to prevent undesired side-effects [6].The challenge in the synthesis of carbohydrates is their wide variety of functionalities and stereochemistry ( Figure 1). (Poly)hydroxyaldehydes containing a terminal aldehyde are referred to as aldoses and (poly)hydroxyketones are defined as ketoses. In aqueous solutions, monosaccharides form equilibrium mixtures of linear open-chain and ring-closed 5-or 6-membered furanoses or pyranoses, respectively. For aldoses, the asymmetric ring forms at C-1. For ketoses, it closes at C-2 as an axial (α) or equatorial (β) hemiacetal or hemiketal, respectively (commonly defined as the anomeric center). A glycosidic linkage is a covalent O-, S-, N-, or C-bond connecting a monosaccharide to another residue resulting in a glycoside, while glucoside is specific for a glucose moiety. The equatorial or axial position of the glycosidic bond is referred to as α-(axial) or β-linkage (equatorial). The number of carbohydrates linked via glycosidic bonds can be subdivided into oligosaccharides with two to ten linked carbohydrates, while polysaccharides (glycans) contain more than ten glycosidic bonds. A glycan either con...