Dehydrogenase definition

dēhī-drŏjə-nās, -nāz, dē-hīdrə-jə-
An enzyme that catalyzes the removal of hydrogen from a substrate and the transfer of the hydrogen to an acceptor in an oxidation-reduction reaction.
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Any oxidoreductase enzyme that acts as a catalyst, in chemical reactions involving oxidation, by the removal of hydrogen.
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An enzyme that catalyzes the removal of hydrogen from a substrate and the transfer of the hydrogen to an acceptor in an oxidation-reduction reaction.
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(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the removal of hydrogen (a proton) from biological compounds.
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Noun

Singular:
dehydrogenase
Plural:
dehydrogenases

Dehydrogenase Sentence Examples

  • Acetaldehyde still needs to be broken down into sugars and whatnot by the enzyme acetaldehyde still needs to be broken down into sugars and whatnot by the enzyme acetaldehyde dehydrogenase.

  • Pyruvate Dehydrogenase catalyzes oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate, to form acetyl-CoA.

  • A small group of dehydrogenases including succinate dehydrogenase (an enzyme in the citric acid cycle) produce FADH 2 rather than NADH.

  • I had been working on an enzyme which was called glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase.

  • Here is some fragment output from a query designed to find complete coding regions for genes encoding xanthine dehydrogenase.

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