Racemase
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Racemase is a noun meaning (biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having only one center of asymmetry.
Meaning
(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having only one center of asymmetry.
Word Forms
- racemases
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include alanine, epimerase, reductoisomerase, rhombosortase, rhamnosidase, mutase.
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