epimerase

English

Etymology

epimer +‎ -ase

Noun

epimerase (plural epimerases)

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having more than one center of asymmetry.

Translations

enzyme

Finnish: epimeraasi
Spanish: epimerasa f

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