Term Information

Accession
GO:0035885
Name
exochitinase activity
Ontology
molecular_function
Synonyms
None
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
Catalysis of the hydrolysis of terminal 1,4-beta-linkages of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) polymers of chitin and chitodextrins. Typically, exochitinases progressively cleave off two subunits from the reducing or non-reducing ends of the chitin chain. Source: EC:3.2.1.-, GOC:bf, GOC:kah, GOC:pde, PMID:21390509, PMID:11468293, PMID:16298970
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0035885 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of exochitinase activity (GO:0035885)
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exochitinase activity [is_a relation] is_a  chitinase activity (GO:0004568)

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MetaCyc
RXN-12309
RHEA
50672