Galactose Mutarotase (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Galactose mutarotase (aldose 1-epimerase) (gene name GALM) is a human enzyme that converts alpha-aldose to the beta-anomer. It belongs to family of aldose epimerases.Enzymes are proteins that catalyze (i.e., increase the rates of) chemical reactions.In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at the beginning of the process are called substrates, and they are converted into different molecules, called the products. Almost all processes in a biological cell need enzymes to occur at significant rates. Since enzymes are selective for their substrates and speed up only a few reactions from among many possibilities, the set of enzymes made in a cell determines which metabolic pathways occur in that cell.