Q. Enzymes that catalyses the removal of groups from substrates by mechanism other than hydrolysis, addition of groups to double bonds are called
A) Lyases
B) Ligases
C) Hydrolases
D) Dehydrogenases
Explanation
Lyases catalyse the breakage of specific covalent bonds and removal of groups without hydrolysis. Example histidine decarboxylase splits $C - C\$bonds of histidine forming $CO_{2}$ and histamine
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