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epimerase

epimerase noun: 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.

Noun

epimerase (plural epimerases)

  1. 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.

Forms of epimerase

pluralepimerases

Origin of epimerase

From epimer + -ase.

Questions about epimerase

What does epimerase mean?
Epimerase means 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.
What part of speech is epimerase?
Epimerase is a noun.
What is the plural of epimerase?
The plural of epimerase is epimerases.

Words near epimerase in the dictionary

  1. epimenorrhea
  2. epimenorrhoea
  3. epimer
  4. epimera
  5. epimeral
  6. epimerase
  7. epimerases
  8. epimere
  9. epimeres
  10. epimeric
  11. epimeriid

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