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Alcohol dehydrogenase (azurin)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2023
Entity authorityQ2791740 ↗
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Alcohol dehydrogenase (azurin) (EC 1.1.9.1, type II quinoprotein alcohol dehydrogenase, quinohaemoprotein ethanol dehydrogenase, QHEDH, ADHIIB) is an enzyme with systematic name alcohol:azurin oxidoreductase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

primary alcohol + azurin

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aldehyde + reduced azurin

This enzyme is a periplasmic PQQ-containing quinohemoprotein.

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