In enzymology, a 1,6-alpha-D-mannosidase (EC 3.2.1.163) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction of separating the 1,6-linked alpha-D-mannose residues in alpha-D-Manp-(1->6)-D-Manp.
| 1,6-alpha-D-mannosidase | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 3.2.1.163 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
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This enzyme belongs to the family of hydrolases, specifically those glycosidases that hydrolyse O- and S-glycosyl compounds. The systematic name of this enzyme class is 1,6-alpha-mannosyl alpha-D-mannohydrolase.
References
edit- Athanasopoulos VI, Niranjan K, Rastall RA (2005). "The production, purification and characterisation of two novel alpha-D-mannosidases from Aspergillus phoenicis". Carbohydr. Res. 340 (4): 609–17. doi:10.1016/j.carres.2005.01.005. PMID 15721331.
