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Ephedrine dehydrogenase

In enzymology, ephedrine dehydrogenase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

The two substrates of this enzyme are ephedrine and oxidised nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD<sup>+</sup>). This forms an imine intermediate which spontaneously hydrolyses to give (-)-phenylacetylcarbinol and methylamine. The enzyme was isolated from a strain of the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida which uses ephedrine as its sole source of carbon.

This enzyme belongs to the family of oxidoreductases, specifically those acting on the CH-NH group of donor with NAD+ or NADP+ as acceptor. The systematic name of this enzyme class is (-)-ephedrine:NAD+ 2-oxidoreductase.

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