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mutase

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mutase /mu·tase/ (mu´tās) a group of enzymes (transferases) that catalyze the intramolecular shifting of a chemical group from one position to another.
mu·tase (myts, -tz)
n.
Any enzyme that catalyzes the rearrangement of atoms within a molecule, especially one that causes the transfer of a phosphate group from one carbon atom to another.

mutase
[myo̅o̅′tās]
any enzyme that catalyzes the shifting of a chemical group or radical from one position to another within the same molecule or occasionally from one molecule to another.

mutase [mu´tās]
any of a group of enzymes (transferases) that catalyze the intramolecular shifting of a chemical group from one position to another.

mutase
any of a group of enzymes (transferases) that catalyze the intramolecular shifting of a chemical group from one position to another.


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They include excited state of photo-active proteins by configuration interaction studies, using the fragment molecular orbital (FMO) method to recognize specific bio-macromolecules, FMO in the study of viruses and their binding to receptors, and the chorismate mutase reaction as a case study for modeling a protein environment in an enzymatic catalysis.
The results of the present study raise the possibility that folic acid supplementation could promote the development of anemia and cognitive decline in people with marginal vitamin B12 status, presumably by decreasing the activity of two vitamin B12-dependent enzymes, methionine synthase and methylmalonic acid-coenzyme A mutase.
They have revealed that the new enzyme discovered by them is called 2-hydroxyisobutyryl-CoA mutase, and that it makes it possible to turn a linear C4 carbon structure into a branched one.
 
 
 
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