epimerase

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

epimer +‎ -ase

Noun[edit]

epimerase (plural epimerases)

  1. (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.

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