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Racemase

racemase

(Science: enzyme) enzymes that catalyze inversion of the configuration around an asymmetric carbon in a substrate having one (racemase) or more (epimerase) centre(s) of asymmetry. For example; hydroxyproline, ribulose phosphate).

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