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Glycoside Hydrolase Family 121
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- Author: ^^^Kiyotaka Fujita^^^
- Responsible Curator: ^^^Shinya Fushinobu^^^
| Glycoside Hydrolase Family GH121 | |
| Clan | GH-x |
| Mechanism | retaining |
| Active site residues | known/not known |
| CAZy DB link | |
| http://www.cazy.org/GH121.html | |
Substrate specificities
This family of glycoside hydrolases was recently established for HypBA2 from Bifidobacterium longum JCM 1217
Kinetics and Mechanism
HypBA2 is a retaining enzyme.
Catalytic Residues
Content is to be added here.
Three-dimensional structures
Content is to be added here.
Family Firsts
- First stereochemistry determination
- This was determined with HypBA2 enzyme using the 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectra of the transglycosylation product beta-Ara2-OMe.
References
- Cantarel BL, Coutinho PM, Rancurel C, Bernard T, Lombard V, and Henrissat B. (2009). The Carbohydrate-Active EnZymes database (CAZy): an expert resource for Glycogenomics. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009;37(Database issue):D233-8. DOI:10.1093/nar/gkn663 |
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Davies, G.J. and Sinnott, M.L. (2008) Sorting the diverse: the sequence-based classifications of carbohydrate-active enzymes. Biochem. J. (BJ Classic Paper, online only). DOI: 10.1042/BJ20080382