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Figure 1.
Figure 1. Hydrolysis reaction catalyzed by GA amidase. GA cleaves the β-N-aspartylglucosylamine bond (indicated by the bold arrow) of its natural substrate NAcGlc-Asn during proteolytic processings of asparagine-linked glycoproteins, resulting in the release of apartic acid and aminoglycan. The latter product is then further hydrolyzed non-enzymatically to release ammonia and oligosaccharide. Figure 1. Hydrolysis reaction catalyzed by GA amidase. GA cleaves the β-N-aspartylglucosylamine bond (indicated by the bold arrow) of its natural substrate NAcGlc-Asn during proteolytic processings of asparagine-linked glycoproteins, resulting in the release of apartic acid and aminoglycan. The latter product is then further hydrolyzed non-enzymatically to release ammonia and oligosaccharide.

The above figure is reprinted from an Open Access publication published by Elsevier: J Mol Biol (2007, 366, 82-92) copyright 2007.