The enzyme arylesterase (EC 3.1.1.2) catalyzes the reaction
The enzyme arylesterase (EC 3.1.1.2) catalyzes the reaction a phenyl acetate + H2O \rightleftharpoons a phenol + acetate
This enzyme belongs to the family of hydrolases, specifically those acting on carboxylic ester bonds. The systematic name of this enzyme class is aryl-ester hydrolase. Other names in common use include A-esterase, paraoxonase, and aromatic esterase. This enzyme participates in bisphenol a degradation.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).