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How are enzymes named?
Posted March 9, 2023
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Enzymes are named by adding a prefix that may describe the substrate that the enzyme acts on or the chemical reaction that the enzyme catalyzes. The prefix is followed by the suffix “-ase”, which indicates that the compound is an enzyme.
For example, the proteinase is an enzyme that breaks down proteins into amino acids.
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A hierarchical deep learning based approach for multi‐functional enzyme classification