Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH)

AKA: Aldehyde Reductase.
Context:
- It can interconvert between Alcohols and Aldehydes or Ketones
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Example(s):
- Pseudomonas putida http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P39849
- PMID 533768: “P. putida cytoplasmic and outer membranes can be separated by sucrose gradient centrifugation after disruption of cells by either mild detergent lysis or passage through a French press. Both the membrane component of alkane hydroxylase and membrane alcohol dehydrogenase fractionated with the cytoplasmic membrane”
See: Drosophila Melanogaster, Cytoplasmic Membrane, Ketone, Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide.

References

(Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/alcohol_dehydrogenase Retrieved:2019-11-16.
- Alcohol dehydrogenases (ADH) () are a group of dehydrogenase enzymes that occur in many organisms and facilitate the interconversion between alcohols and aldehydes or ketones with the reduction of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD⁺) to NADH. In humans and many other animals, they serve to break down alcohols that otherwise are toxic, and they also participate in generation of useful aldehyde, ketone, or alcohol groups during biosynthesis of various metabolites. In yeast, plants, and many bacteria, some alcohol dehydrogenases catalyze the opposite reaction as part of fermentation to ensure a constant supply of NAD⁺.