Carbohydrate-active enzymes

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• Author: Harry Brumer
• Responsible Curator: Harry Brumer

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Glycoside Hydrolase Family GHnn
Clan	GH-x
Mechanism	retaining/inverting
Active site residues	known/not known
CAZy DB link
http://www.cazy.org/fam/GHnn.html

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Enzymatic formation and cleavage of the bond between two sugars or between a sugar and another group can occur by hydrolysis to give the free sugar (glycosidases or glycoside hydrolases), by transglycosylation to give a new glycoside (transglycosidases), by phosphorolysis to give the sugar-1-phosphate (phosphorylases) or by elimination to give unsaturated sugar products (lyases). The principal enzymes that catalyze glycoside synthesis are nucleotide phosphosugar-dependent glycosyltransferases.

Family Firsts

First sterochemistry determination

Cite some reference here, with a short explanation [1].

First catalytic nucleophile identification

First general acid/base residue identification

First 3-D structure

References

1. Comfort DA, Bobrov KS, Ivanen DR, Shabalin KA, Harris JM, Kulminskaya AA, Brumer H, and Kelly RM. (2007). Biochemical analysis of Thermotoga maritima GH36 alpha-galactosidase (TmGalA) confirms the mechanistic commonality of clan GH-D glycoside hydrolases. Biochemistry. 2007;46(11):3319-30. DOI:10.1021/bi061521n |

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