Mechanistic aspects of carbohydrate epimerization

Epimerases are enzymes that invert the stereochemistry at a stereogenic center in a molecule with two or more chiral centers. Most known sugar epimerases catalyze this reaction by simple deprotonation/reprotonation or by oxidation/reduction mechanism. Only two carbohydrate epimerases are known tha...

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Main Author: Samuel, Jomy
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14895