Contains two divalent metal ions, preferably magnesium, located at different metal-binding sites within the active site. The enzyme catalyses the interconversion of aldose and ketose sugars with broad substrate specificity. The enzyme binds the closed form of its sugar substrate (in the case of xylose and glucose, only the alpha anomer ) and catalyses ring opening to generate a form of open-chain conformation that is coordinated to one of the metal sites. Isomerization proceeds via a hydride-shift mechanism.
The taxonomic range for the selected organisms is: Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron The expected taxonomic range for this enzyme is: Bacteria, Eukaryota, Archaea
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SYSTEMATIC NAME
IUBMB Comments
alpha-D-xylopyranose aldose-ketose-isomerase
Contains two divalent metal ions, preferably magnesium, located at different metal-binding sites within the active site. The enzyme catalyses the interconversion of aldose and ketose sugars with broad substrate specificity. The enzyme binds the closed form of its sugar substrate (in the case of xylose and glucose, only the alpha anomer [4]) and catalyses ring opening to generate a form of open-chain conformation that is coordinated to one of the metal sites. Isomerization proceeds via a hydride-shift mechanism.