Glucuronoarabinoxylan endo-1,4-beta-xylanase (, ''feraxan endoxylanase'', ''feraxanase'', ''endoarabinoxylanase'', ''glucuronoxylan xylohydrolase'', ''glucuronoxylanase'', ''glucuronoxylan xylanohydrolase'', ''glucuronoarabinoxylan 1,4-beta-D-xylanohydrolase'') is an
enzyme
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with
systematic name
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A semisystematic name or semitrivi ...
''glucuronoarabinoxylan 4-beta-D-xylanohydrolase''.
This enzyme
catalyses the following
chemical reaction
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: Endohydrolysis of (1->4)-beta-D-xylosyl links in some
glucuronoarabinoxylans
This enzyme has high activity towards feruloylated
arabinoxylan Arabinoxylan is a form of the hemicellulose xylan found in both the primary and secondary cell walls of plants which in addition to xylose contains substantial amounts of another pentose sugar, arabinose.Scheller, H. V., & Ulvskov, P. (2010). Hem ...
s.
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