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epimerase

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Etymology

From epimer + -ase.

Noun

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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