CATH Classification

Domain Context

CATH Clusters

Superfamily Glycosidases
Functional Family Beta-amylase

Enzyme Information

3.2.1.2
Beta-amylase.
based on mapping to UniProt P10538
Hydrolysis of (1->4)-alpha-D-glucosidic linkages in polysaccharides so as to remove successive maltose units from the non-reducing ends of the chains.
-!- Acts on starch, glycogen and related polysaccharides and oligosaccharides producing beta-maltose by an inversion.

UniProtKB Entries (1)

P10538
AMYB_SOYBN
Glycine max
Beta-amylase

PDB Structure

PDB 1UKO
External Links
Method X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Organism Escherichia
Primary Citation
Change in the crystal packing of soybean beta-amylase mutants substituted at a few surface amino acid residues
Kang, Y.N., Adachi, M., Mikami, B., Utsumi, S.
Protein Eng.