racemase

English

Etymology

From raceme +‎ -ase.

Noun

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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