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... > Enzymes and Coenzymes > Enzymes > Transferases > Glycosyltransferases > Hexosyltransferases > Glucosyltransferases > 1,4-alpha-Glucan Branching Enzyme

Preferred term

1,4-alpha-Glucan Branching Enzyme  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Branching Enzyme
  • Branching Enzyme, Starch
  • Branching Glycosyltransferase
  • Enzyme, Branching
  • Enzyme, Starch Branching
  • Glycosyltransferase, Branching
  • Starch Branching Enzyme

Scope note

  • In glycogen or amylopectin synthesis, the enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of a segment of a 1,4-alpha-glucan chain to a primary hydroxy group in a similar glucan chain. EC 2.4.1.18.

History note

  • 91(76); was see under GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES 1976-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015061

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