| Literature DB >> 12137277 |
Jomy Samuel1, Martin E Tanner.
Abstract
Carbohydrate epimerases are enzymes that catalyze an inversion of stereochemistry at a stereogenic center in a sugar. This review focuses on the mechanistic strategies that are employed by this diverse family of enzymes, and is divided into the following sections: deprotonation/reprotonation, transient oxidation, cofactor independent, and mutarotation. The review is comprehensive up to Oct. 2001 and contains 216 references.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12137277 DOI: 10.1039/b100492l
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Prod Rep ISSN: 0265-0568 Impact factor: 13.423