Tuesday 27 October 2009

Seryne-Hydrolase mechanism

The so far commonly accepted seryne-hydrolase mechanism for hydrolitic reactions is an exemple of how enzymes works.

During the course of the reaction, any type of chirality in the substrate is recognized by the enzyme, which causes a stereochemical preferent pathway. The value of this discrimination is a crucial parameter since it stands for selectivity.



Being the nucleophile of the scheme water (hydrolysis), alcohol (acyl transfer), amine (ester aminolysis) or hydrogen peroxide (peracid formation).

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