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Polymannuronate hydrolase

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EC number
  
3.2.1.121

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CAS number
  
99283-64-4

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Polymannuronate hydrolase (EC 3.2.1.121, polymannuronic acid polymerase) is an enzyme with systematic name poly(mannuronide) mannuronohydrolase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

Endohydrolysis of the D-mannuronide linkages of polymannuronate

This enzyme does not act on alginic acid, which is a copolymer of polymannuronate.

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Polymannuronate hydrolase Wikipedia