16-hydroxysteroid epimerase
| 16-hydroxysteroid epimerase | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
| Gene Ontology | AmiGO / QuickGO | ||||||||
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In
enzymology, a 16-hydroxysteroid epimerase (EC 5.1.99.2) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
- 16alpha-hydroxysteroid 16beta-hydroxysteroid
Hence, this enzyme has one
.This enzyme belongs to the family of
epimerases acting on other compounds. The systematic name
of this enzyme class is 16-hydroxysteroid 16-epimerase.
References
- Dahm K, Lindlau M, Breuer H (1968). "[Steroid epimerase--a new enzyme of estrogen metabolism]". Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 159 (2): 377–89. PMID 5657462.
