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SUBMITTER: Mathieu S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4954714 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mathieu Sophie S Henrissat Bernard B Labre Flavien F Skjåk-Bræk Gudmund G Helbert William W
PloS one 20160720 7
Alginate, the main cell-wall polysaccharide of brown algae, is composed of two residues: mannuronic acid (M-residues) and, its C5-epimer, guluronic acid (G-residues). Alginate lyases define a class of enzymes that cleave the glycosidic bond of alginate by β-elimination. They are classified according to their ability to recognize the distribution of M- and G-residues and are named M-, G- or MG-lyases. In the CAZy database, alginate lyases have been grouped by sequence similarity into seven distin ...[more]