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The α-amylase enzyme family is the largest family of glycoside hydrolases. It contains almost 30 different enzyme specificities covering hydrolases, transferases and isomerases. Some of the enzyme specificities from the family are closely related, others less so. This study, based on the analysis of 79 amino acid sequences, postulates two subfamilies in the framework of the α-amylase family: the oligo-1,6-glucosidase subfamily and the neopullulanase subfamily. The specific sequence in the fifth conserved sequence region of the family served as the basis for defining the subfamilies: QpDln for the oligo-1,6-glucosidase subfamily and MPKln for the neopullulanase subfamily. This conserved sequence region is proposed to be the selection marker that enables one to distinguish between the two subfamilies. The 'intermediary' sequence MPDLN can be characteristic of the so-called intermediary group with a mixed enzyme specificity of α-amylase, cyclomaltodextrinase and neopullulanase. The evolutionary trees clearly supported the proposed definition of the two subfamilies.
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Received 12 July 2002; received after revision 28 August 2002; accepted 24 September 2002
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Oslancová, A., Janeček, Š. Oligo-1,6-glucosidase and neopullulanase enzyme subfamilies from the α-amylase family defined by the fifth conserved sequence region. CMLS, Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 59, 1945–1959 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00012517
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00012517