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Frandsen, T.P., Svensson, B. Plant α-glucosidases of the glycoside hydrolase family 31. Molecular properties, substrate specificity, reaction mechanism, and comparison with family members of different origin. Plant Mol Biol 37, 1–13 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005925819741
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- retaining mechanism
- sequence similarity
- mechanism-based labelling
- catalytic residues
- multiple molecular forms
- starch degradation Abbreviations: G2
- maltose; iG2
- isomaltose; G3
- maltotriose; G4
- maltotetraose; G5
- maltopentaose; G6
- maltohexaose; G7
- maltoheptaose; G8
- maltooctaose; pNPG
- p-nitrophenyl α-d-glucopyranoside