Isomaltase
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| Oligo-1,6-glucosidase | |||||||||
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| EC no. | 3.2.1.10 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
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Isomaltase (EC 3.2.1.10) is an enzyme that breaks the bonds linking saccharides, which cannot be broken by amylase or maltase. It digests polysaccharides at the alpha 1-6 linkages. Its substrate, alpha-limit dextrin, is a product of amylopectin digestion that retains its 1-6 linkage (its alpha 1-4 linkages having already been broken down by amylase). The product of the enzymatic digestion of alpha-limit dextrin by isomaltase is maltose.
Isomaltase helps amylase to digest alpha-limit dextrin to produce maltose. The human sucrase-isomaltase is a dual-function enzyme with two GH31 domains, one serving as the isomaltase, the other as a sucrose alpha-glucosidase.
The systematic name of sucrase-isomaltase is oligosaccharide 6-alpha-glucohydrolase. This enzyme is also known as:
- Sucrase-alpha-dextrinase
- oligo-1,6-glucosidase,
- limit dextrin,
- so maltase,
- exo-oligo-1,6-glucosidase,
- dextrin 6alpha-glucanohydrolase,
- alpha-limit dextrin,
- dextrin 6-glucanohydrolase, and
- oligosaccharide alpha-1,6-glucohydrolase.
