Eliminative degradation of polysaccharides containing 1,4-β-D-hexosaminyl and 1,3-β-D-glucuronosyl linkages to disaccharides containing 4-deoxy-β-D-gluc-4-enuronosyl groups
This enzyme belongs to the family of
lyases, specifically those carbon-oxygen lyases acting on polysaccharides. The
systematic name of this enzyme class is chondroitin AC lyase. Other names in common use include chondroitinase (ambiguous), chondroitin sulfate lyase, chondroitin AC eliminase, chondroitin AC lyase, chondroitinase AC, and ChnAC.
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doi:
10.1006/bbrc.2001.5380.
PMID11500043.
Cygler M; Shilton, BH; Li, Y; Allaire, M; Laliberté, M; Eggimann, B; Cygler, M (1998). "Crystallization and preliminary analysis of chondroitinase AC from Flavobacterium heparinum". Acta Crystallogr. D. 54 (Pt 2): 279–80.
doi:
10.1107/S0907444997009037.
PMID9761894.