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<scene name='Cory_Tiedeman_Sandbox_1/Enolase/1'>Enolase</scene> is an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction of glycolysis.  Glycolysis converts glucose into two 3-carbon molecules called pyruvate.  The energy released during glycolysis is used to make ATP.<ref>{{textbook |author=Voet, Donald; Voet, Judith C.; Pratt, Charlotte W.|title=Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level|edition= 3|pages=487|}}</ref>  Enolase is used to convert 2-phosphoglycerate (2PG) to phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) in the 9th reaction of glycolysis.<ref>{{textbook |author=Voet, Donald; Voet, Judith C.; Pratt, Charlotte W.|title=Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level|edition= 3|pages=500|}}</ref>  Enolase is expressed abundantly in most cells and has been proven useful as a model to study mechanisms of enzyme action and structural analysis <ref>{{journal}}</ref>.

Enolase is in the alpha and beta proteins class and has a fold of TIM beta/alpha-barrel.  It comes from the Superfamily on Enolase C-terminal domain-like and is in the enolase family.  This specific enolase is found in the species: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is baker's yeast.