Glucanases are enzymes that break down [glucans] polysaccharides via hydrolysis. The product of the hydrolysis reaction are smaller glucans, a linear or branched polysaccharide made of up to 1200 glucose monomers, linked by glycosidic bonds. Glucans are abundant in the endosperm cell walls of cereals such as barley, rye, sorghum, rice, and wheat. Glucanases are also referred to as lichenases, hydrolases, glycosidases, glycosyl hydrolases, and/or laminarinases. Many types of glucanases share similar amino acid sequences but vastly different substrates. Of the known endo-glucanases, 1,3-1,4-β-gl
Glucanases are enzymes that break down [glucans] polysaccharides via hydrolysis. The product of the hydrolysis reaction are smaller glucans, a linear or branched polysaccharide made of up to 1200 glucose monomers, linked by glycosidic bonds. Glucans are abundant in the endosperm cell walls of cereals such as barley, rye, sorghum, rice, and wheat. Glucanases are also referred to as lichenases, hydrolases, glycosidases, glycosyl hydrolases, and/or laminarinases. Many types of glucanases share similar amino acid sequences but vastly different substrates. Of the known endo-glucanases, 1,3-1,4-β-glucanase is considered the most active.
== Structure ==
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).