What’s new

Tired of overly long pages and long display times ? Check out the new page layout, with 1,000 entries at a time for All/Superkingdoms/Unclassified tabs and 100 entries at a time for Structure/Characterized tabs.

A recent article by the CAZy team defines subfamilies within the large GH5 family.

Details appear in Aspeborg H, Coutinho PM, Wang Y, Brumer H, Henrissat B (2012) Evolution, substrate specificity and subfamily classification of glycoside hydrolase family 5 (GH5). BMC Evol. Biol. 12:186 [PMID : 22992189]. The GH5 subfamilies now appear online at URL http://www.cazy.org/GH5_subfamilies.html

Important new addition

Many users have asked to provide a listing of the encoded proteins on our genome pages. This is now done. Let us know if you find it useful !

A recent article by the CAZy team [1], defines and describes in an extended manner :

(i) the catalytic mechanisms covered by the PL classification ;
(ii) the know PL activities and how these are distributed in the present PL families ;
(iii) the diversity of folds exhibited in structurally characterized PL families ;
(iv) the new layer of PL subfamilies that has been defined throughout the PL families.

[1] Lombard V, Bernard T, Rancurel C, Brumer H, Coutinho PM, Henrissat B (2010) A hierarchical classification of polysaccharide lyases for glycogenomics. Biochem. J. 432:437-444 [PMID : 20925655].

New families

The following three new GH families have been added to CAZy on April 30, 2010 : GH116 , GH117 and GH118.