L-arabinose isomerase

In enzymology, a L-arabinose isomerase (EC number|5.3.1.4) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

:L-arabinose $ightleftharpoons$ L-ribulose

Hence, this enzyme has one substrate, L-arabinose, and one product, L-ribulose.

This enzyme belongs to the family of isomerases, specifically those intramolecular oxidoreductases interconverting aldoses and ketoses. The systematic name of this enzyme class is L-arabinose aldose-ketose-isomerase. This enzyme participates in pentose and glucuronate interconversions.

tructural studies

As of late 2007, two structures have been solved for this class of enzymes, with PDB accession codes PDB link|2AJT and PDB link|2HXG.

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External links

::"The CAS registry number for this enzyme class is CAS registry|9023-80-7."

Gene Ontology (GO) codes