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Epimerase vs Mutase - What's the difference?

epimerase | mutase |

As nouns the difference between epimerase and mutase

is that epimerase is 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 while mutase is an enzyme that catalyzes the shifting of a functional group from one position to another within the same molecule.

epimerase

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (enzyme) 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.

    • mutase

    English

    (wikipedia mutase)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the shifting of a functional group from one position to another within the same molecule.

    • Derived terms

    * bisphosphoglycerate mutase * phosphoglycerate mutase ----