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Polysaccharide epimerases
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- Author: ^^^Margrethe Gaardlos^^^ and ^^^Anne Tondervik^^^
- Responsible Curator: ^^^Finn Aachmann^^^
Introduction
Substrate specificities
Classification
Product profiles
Main section 2
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References
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