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racemase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
race-mase
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having only one center of asymmetry.

Etymology

From raceme + -ase.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

racemases (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

epimerase

Questions

What does racemase mean?
Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having only one center of asymmetry.
Where does racemase come from?
From raceme + -ase.

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