English Explanatory Dictionary

epimerase

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having more than one center of asymmetry.

Word forms

epimerase epimerases

Etymology

From epimer + -ase.

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