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- noun biochemistry Any of a group of enzymes that promote the
hydrolysis offolic acid conjugates and the production ofglutamic acid andpteroylglutamic acid
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Examples
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In many cases, without an E3 ligase, the E2 conjugase Ubc9 can directly attach SUMO protein to a substrate
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Ubc9, which is essential for cell viability, is the only SUMO E2 conjugase identified so far in yeast
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Xuefeng Chen et al. 2009
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The SUMO is activated by an E1 activating enzyme and then passed to an E2 conjugase.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Xuefeng Chen et al. 2009
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Enzymes either tear apart molecules (called hydrolase) or put them together (called conjugase). {
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Enzymes either tear apart molecules (called hydrolase) or put them together (called conjugase). {
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