Glycoside Hydrolase Family 97

Known Activitiesa-glucosidase (EC 3.2.1.20); a-galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.22)
Mechanism inverting and retain
3D Structure Status(b/a)8
Catalytic Nucleophile/BaseGlu for inverting members; Asp for retaining members
Catalytic Proton DonorGlu
NoteCreated based on a paper by Hughes et al. (2003) Oral Microbiol Immunol. 18:309-312 (PMID: 12930523); *Mechanistic and structural elucidation by Gloster et al. (2008) Chem. Biol., Oct 8 (PMID:18848471); the inverting a-glucosidases (EC 3.2.1.20) could be renamed glucoamylases (EC 3.2.1.3 according to Kitamura et al. (2008) J. Biol. Chem., Nov 3 (PMID:18981178)
External resourcesCAZypedia;
Statistics GenBank accession (260); Uniprot accession (146); PDB accession (6); 3D entries (2); cryst (0)


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