Esteraza

Esteraza je hidrolazni enzim koji razlaže estar u kiselinu i alkohol u hemijskoj reakciji sa vodom, koja se naziva hidroliza.^[1][2] Postoji široki niz različitih esteraza koji se razlikuju u njihovoj specifičnosti za supstrat, proteinskoj strukturi, i biološkoj funkciji.

Povezano

• Enzim
• Karboksilna kiselina
• Estar
• Nukleaza
• Lipaza

Reference

1. Donald Voet, Judith G. Voet (2005). Biochemistry (3 izd.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-19350-0.
2. David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox (2005). Principles of Biochemistry (4th izd.). New York: W. H. Freeman. ISBN 0-7167-4339-6.

Literatura

• Nicholas C. Price, Lewis Stevens (1999). Fundamentals of Enzymology: The Cell and Molecular Biology of Catalytic Proteins (Third izd.). USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019850229X.
• Eric J. Toone (2006). Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology, Protein Evolution (Volume 75 izd.). Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 0471205036.
• Branden C, Tooze J.. Introduction to Protein Structure. New York, NY: Garland Publishing. ISBN: 0-8153-2305-0.
• Irwin H. Segel. Enzyme Kinetics: Behavior and Analysis of Rapid Equilibrium and Steady-State Enzyme Systems (Book 44 izd.). Wiley Classics Library. ISBN 0471303097.
• Robert A. Copeland (2013). Evaluation of Enzyme Inhibitors in Drug Discovery: A Guide for Medicinal Chemists and Pharmacologists (2nd izd.). Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 111848813X.
• Gerhard Michal, Dietmar Schomburg (2012). Biochemical Pathways: An Atlas of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2nd izd.). Wiley. ISBN 0470146842.

Vanjske veze

• Enzimska nomenklatura