racemase

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Etymology[edit]

raceme +‎ -ase

Noun[edit]

racemase (plural racemases)

  1. (biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having only one center of asymmetry.

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