alcohol dehydrogenase

English

Alternative forms

  • alcoholdehydrogenase, alcohol-dehydrogenase

Noun

alcohol dehydrogenase (plural alcohol dehydrogenases)

  1. (biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes or ketones.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.