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Sub-site nomenclature

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A nomenclature for enzymatic sub-sites of carbohydrate processing enzymes was proposed in 1997. Sub-sites are numbered with increasingly negative numbers away from the cleavage point towards the non-reducing terminus, and with increasingly positive numbers towards the reducing terminus as shown below.

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