This page is currently under construction. This means that the Responsible Curator has deemed that the page's content is not quite up to CAZypedia's standards for full public consumption. All information should be considered to be under revision and may be subject to major changes.
Authors may get an idea of what to put in each field from Curator ApprovedPolysaccharide Lyase Families. (TIP: Right click with your mouse and open this link in a new browser window...)
In the meantime, please see these references for an essential introduction to the CAZy classification system: [1, 2].
Substrate Specificities
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Kinetics and Mechanism
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Catalytic Residues
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Three-dimensional structures
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Family Firsts
First description of catalytic activity
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First catalytic base identification
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First catalytic divalent cation identification
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First 3-D structures
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References
Davies, G.J. and Sinnott, M.L. (2008) Sorting the diverse: the sequence-based classifications of carbohydrate-active enzymes. The Biochemist, vol. 30, no. 4., pp. 26-32. Download PDF version. [DaviesSinnott2008]