| N-acetylneuraminate epimerase | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 5.1.3.24 | ||||||||
| 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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N-acetylneuraminate epimerase (EC 5.1.3.24, sialic acid epimerase, N-acetylneuraminate mutarotase, sialic acid mutarotase, YjhT, NanM) is an enzyme with systematic name N-acetyl-alpha-neuraminate 2-epimerase.[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
- N-acetyl-alpha-neuraminate N-acetyl-beta-neuraminate
Sialoglycoconjugates present in vertebrates are linked exclusively by alpha-linkages.
