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epimerase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English

Syllables
epimerase
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

Etymology tree English epi- English -mer English epimer Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ) Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs) English diastase English -ase English epimerase From epimer + -ase.

Inflected Forms

epimerases (plural)

Questions

What does epimerase mean?
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.
Where does epimerase come from?
Etymology tree English epi- English -mer English epimer Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ) Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs) English diastase English -ase English epimerase From epimer + -ase.

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