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Glycoside Hydrolase Family 69
- Responsible Curator: ^^^Bernard Henrissat^^^
GH69 is a deleted family
Entries in GH69 were transferred to Polysaccharide Lyase Family 16 when it was shown that polysaccharide cleavage occurred via a beta elimination, rather than glycosidic bond hydrolysis [1, 2].
References
- Baker JR, Dong S, and Pritchard DG. (2002). The hyaluronan lyase of Streptococcus pyogenes bacteriophage H4489A. Biochem J. 2002;365(Pt 1):317-22. DOI:10.1042/BJ20020149 |
- Smith NL, Taylor EJ, Lindsay AM, Charnock SJ, Turkenburg JP, Dodson EJ, Davies GJ, and Black GW. (2005). Structure of a group A streptococcal phage-encoded virulence factor reveals a catalytically active triple-stranded beta-helix. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005;102(49):17652-7. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0504782102 |
| CAZy DB links | |
| http://www.cazy.org/fam/GH69.html | |
| http://www.cazy.org/fam/PL16.html |
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