Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NC-IUBMB)
Enzyme Nomenclature. Recommendations 1992
Enzyme Supplement 5 (1999)
Update to Enzyme Nomenclature List
Prepared for the NC-IUBMB by Keith Tipton and Sinead Boyce, Department of Biochemistry, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
This document contains new enzyme listings plus amendments to existing enzymes, as listed in Enzyme Nomenclature 1992 (Academic Press, Orlando, FL, 1992).
World Wide Web version prepared by G.P. Moss
Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College,
Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
g.p.moss@qmul.ac.uk
These data will also be incorporated in a modified form into the SWISSPROT ENZYME (http://expasy.hcuge.ch/sprot/enzyme.html). Information about new enzymes or corrections to existing entries also may be reported directly from these web pages or by using the form printed in the back of Enzyme Nomenclature. Comments and suggestions on enzyme classification and nomenclature may be sent to Dr S. Boyce, Department of Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland (E-mail: sboyce@tcd.ie).
EC 1 Oxidoreductases
EC 2 Transferases
EC 3 Hydrolases (excluding peptidases)
EC 4 Lyases
EC 5 Isomerases
EC 6 Ligases
Additional corrections and Glossary
REFERENCE LIST
Reference 2975: page number 8283 not 8285
Reference 3291: year 1987 not 1988; volume number 262 not 263
Reference 5559 does not refer to EC 4.2.1.26 and 4.2.1.27, does refer to 4.2.1.71
Glossary
| dopachrome | 2,3,5,6-tetrahydro-5,6-dioxoindole-2-carboxylate |
| 4-hydroxycatechol | benzene-1,2,4-triol, 1,2,4-trihydroxybenzene |
| 2-hydroxymuconate semialdehyde | 2-hydroxy-6-oxohexa-2,4-dienoate |
| 2-hydroxyquinoline | quinolin-2-ol exists largely as the quinolin-2(1H)-one tautomer. |
| 4-hydroxyquinoline | quinolin-4-ol exists largely as the quinolin-4(1H)-one tautomer. |
| glutathionylspermidine | N1-(![[gamma]](../../../../greek/GAMMA.GIF) -L-glutamyl-L-cysteinyl-glycyl)-spermidine |
| kynurenate | 4-hydroxyquinoline-2-carboxylate |
| organyl | any organic substituent group, regardless of functional type, having one free valence at a carbon atom |
| phenazine methosulfate | 5-methylphenazinium methyl sulfate |
| phosphoadenosine phosphosulfate | PAdoPS |
| phosphoadenosine phosphate | PAdoP |
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