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β-AMYLASE has so far been considered a unique case among hydrolytic enzymes, as its action is accompanied by an inversion of the anomeric configuration of the splitting product produced; that is, β-maltose is formed from amylose, contrary to expectation. From our experiments it seems that two more glycosidases exist capable of analogous anomeric inversions.
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BEN-GERSHOM, E. Anomeric Inversions by Glycosidases. Nature 175, 593 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175593a0
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