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Glycoside Hydrolase Families

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This page lists all the Glycoside Hydrolase (GH) Family pages in CAZypedia that have been given Curator Approved status, as well as those that are currently under construction, unassigned (i.e. lacking a Responsible Curator and Author), or deleted.

Overview

The term glycoside hydrolase (GH) (alternatively, glycosidase) formally refers to enzymes that catalyze the hydrolytic cleavage of the glycosidic bond to give the carbohydrate hemiacetal. Detailed explanations of the distinct catalytic mechanisms employed by these enzymes can be found on the glycoside hydrolase lexicon page. Since the seminal sequence-based classification of GHs into families, it has subsequently been observed that some of these families also group non-hydrolytic enzymes and proteins, due to sequence and structural similarity [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. In many cases, these alternative activities bear some degree of mechanistic similarity (e.g., conserved catalytic residues or enzyme intermediates) to the eponymous enzymes:

  • Alpha-glucan lyases are found within family GH31 and degrade α-(1-4)-linked glucans (e.g. starch) and oligosaccharides via an elimination mechanism that yields an enol (unsaturated) product that tautomerises to its keto form, 1,5-anhydro fructose.

Curator Approved

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These pages have been approved by the Responsible Curator as essentially complete. CAZypedia is a living document, so further improvement of these pages is still possible; please see the individual pages for more information.

There are currently 140 Curator approved Glycoside Hydrolase (GH) Family pages in CAZypedia.

Under construction

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These pages are currently under construction in CAZypedia. As such, the Responsible Curator has deemed that the page's content is not quite up to CAZypedia's standards for full public consumption. All information on these pages should therefore be considered to be under revision and may be subject to major changes.

There are currently 8 Glycoside Hydrolase Family pages under construction in CAZypedia.

Unassigned pages

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The following Unassigned pages are currently lacking a Responsible Curator and one or more Authors. If you are an expert on any of these families and would like to help us improve CAZypedia by getting involved with the production and maintenance of the corresponding page(s), please contact a member of the Board of Curators directly, or via this form.

There are currently 41 Glycoside Hydrolase Family pages in CAZypedia that have not been assigned to a Responsible Curator.

Deleted families

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The following families have been deleted from the CAZy database. Please see the individual CAZypedia pages and links to the corresponding CAZy DB pages for specific explanations.

There are currently 8 pages in CAZypedia that describe Glycoside Hydrolase families deleted from the CAZy DB.

References

  1. Henrissat B (1991). A classification of glycosyl hydrolases based on amino acid sequence similarities. Biochem J. 1991;280 ( Pt 2)(Pt 2):309-16. DOI:10.1042/bj2800309 | PubMed ID:1747104 [Henrissat1991]
  2. Henrissat B and Bairoch A. (1993). New families in the classification of glycosyl hydrolases based on amino acid sequence similarities. Biochem J. 1993;293 ( Pt 3)(Pt 3):781-8. DOI:10.1042/bj2930781 | PubMed ID:8352747 [Henrissat1993]
  3. Henrissat B and Bairoch A. (1996). Updating the sequence-based classification of glycosyl hydrolases. Biochem J. 1996;316 ( Pt 2)(Pt 2):695-6. DOI:10.1042/bj3160695 | PubMed ID:8687420 [Henrissat1996]
  4. Henrissat B and Davies G. (1997). Structural and sequence-based classification of glycoside hydrolases. Curr Opin Struct Biol. 1997;7(5):637-44. DOI:10.1016/s0959-440x(97)80072-3 | PubMed ID:9345621 [Henrissat1997]

  5. Davies, G.J. and Sinnott, M.L. (2008) Sorting the diverse: the sequence-based classifications of carbohydrate-active enzymes. Biochem. J. (A BJ Classics review, online only). DOI: 10.1042/BJ20080382

    [DaviesSinnott2008]
  6. Davies G and Henrissat B. (1995). Structures and mechanisms of glycosyl hydrolases. Structure. 1995;3(9):853-9. DOI:10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00220-9 | PubMed ID:8535779 [Davies1995]
  7. Vocadlo DJ and Davies GJ. (2008). Mechanistic insights into glycosidase chemistry. Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2008;12(5):539-55. DOI:10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.05.010 | PubMed ID:18558099 [VocadloDavies2008]
  8. Yip VL and Withers SG. (2006). Breakdown of oligosaccharides by the process of elimination. Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2006;10(2):147-55. DOI:10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.02.005 | PubMed ID:16495121 [YipWithers2006]

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