Dehydrogenase Enzyme

A Dehydrogenase Enzyme is an oxidoreductase enzyme that oxidizes a substrate by reducing an electron acceptor, usually NAD⁺/NADP⁺ or a flavin coenzyme such as FAD or FMN.

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• Example(s):
  • Acetaldehyde Dehydrogenase.
  • Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH).
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Catalase.
• See: Acetaldehyde, Enzyme, Oxidoreductases, Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide, Flavin Group, Coenzyme, Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide, Flavin Mononucleotide.

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References

2018

• (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehydrogenase Retrieved:2018-1-6.
  • A dehydrogenase (also called DH or DHase in the literature) is an enzyme belonging to the group of oxidoreductases that oxidizes a substrate by reducing an electron acceptor, usually NAD⁺/NADP⁺ or a flavin coenzyme such as FAD or FMN. They also catalyze the reverse reaction, for instance alcohol dehydrogenase not only oxidizes ethanol to acetaldehyde in animals but also produces ethanol from acetaldehyde in yeast.

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