The stereospecificity of the ferrous‐ion‐dependent alcohol dehydrogenase from Zymomonas mobilis

Abstract
Alcohol dehydrogenase from Zymomonas mobilis has been found to transfer the pro-R hydrogen of NADH to acetaldehyde. This is the first report of the sterospecificity of a dehydrogenase in the mechanistic and structural class of Fe2+-dependent alcohol dehydrogenases and offers an opportunity to expand mechanistic hypotheses relating stereospecificity, reaction mechanism and reaction thermodynamics in dehydrogenases.

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