Functional group of an alcohol molecule. The carbon atom is attached to other carbon or hydrogen atoms.

Alcohol oxidoreductases are oxidoreductase enzymes that act upon an alcohol functional group.[1][2]

They are classified under "1.1" in the EC number numbering system.

References

  1. Eric J. Toone (2006). Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology, Protein Evolution (Volume 75 ed.). Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 0471205036.
  2. Nicholas C. Price; Lewis Stevens (1999). Fundamentals of Enzymology: The Cell and Molecular Biology of Catalytic Proteins (Third ed.). USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019850229X.


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