Книга: Alcohol Dehydrogenase: Dehydrogenase, Enzyme, Aldehyde, Human, Animal, Yeast, Bacteria, Catalysis, Fermentation (food), Ethanol metabolism, ADH1B, Oxidoreductase, Ethanol, Blood alcohol content

Alcohol dehydrogenases are a group of seven dehydrogenase enzymes that occur in many organisms and facilitate the interconversion between alcohols and aldehydes or ketones with the reduction of NAD+ to NADH. In humans and many other animals, they serve to break down alcohols which could otherwise be toxic in yeast and many bacteria, some alcohol dehydrogenases catalyze the opposite reaction as part of fermentation.