Structure
Volume 3, Issue 9, September 1995, Pages 853-859
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Structures and mechanisms of glycosyl hydrolases

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Abstract

The wealth of information provided by the recent structure determinations of many different glycosyl hydrolases shows that the substrate specificity and the mode of action of these enzymes are governed by exquisite details of their three-dimensional structures rather than by their global fold.

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Gideon Davies, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO1 5DD, UK.

Bernard Henrissat, Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolé>cules Végétales, CNRS, BP 53, F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.