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A dehydrogenase (also called DHO in the literature) is an enzyme that oxidises a substrate by a reduction reaction that transfers one or more hydrides (H⁻) to an electron acceptor, usually NAD⁺/NADP⁺ or a flavin coenzyme such as FAD or FMN.

TCA cycle examples:

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 ==Examples==
+* [[aldehyde dehydrogenase]]
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+* [[acetaldehyde dehydrogenase]]
+* [[alcohol dehydrogenase]]
+* [[glutamate dehydrogenase]] (an enzyme that can convert [[glutamate]] to α-[[Ketoglutarate]] and vice versa).
+* [[lactate dehydrogenase]]
+* [[pyruvate dehydrogenase]] (a common enzyme that feeds the [[Citric acid cycle|TCA Cycle]] in converting [[Pyruvate]] to [[Acetyl CoA]])
+* [[glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase]] (involved in the [[pentose phosphate pathway]])
+* [[glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase]] (involved in [[glycolysis]])
+* [[sorbitol dehydrogenase]]
 [[TCA cycle]] examples:

v t e Enzymes
Activity	Active site Binding site Catalytic triad Oxyanion hole Enzyme promiscuity Diffusion-limited enzyme Cofactor Enzyme catalysis
Regulation	Allosteric regulation Cooperativity Enzyme inhibitor Enzyme activator
Classification	EC number Enzyme superfamily Enzyme family List of enzymes
Kinetics	Enzyme kinetics Eadie–Hofstee diagram Hanes–Woolf plot Lineweaver–Burk plot Michaelis–Menten kinetics
Types	EC1 Oxidoreductases (list) EC2 Transferases (list) EC3 Hydrolases (list) EC4 Lyases (list) EC5 Isomerases (list) EC6 Ligases (list) EC7 Translocases (list)