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Hydrogenated NAD

chemical compound
Alternative Title: NADH
  • The electron-transport chain embedded in the inner membrane of a mitochondrion is made up of a series of electron donors and electron acceptors. The transport of electrons begins with the acceptance of electrons by NADH dehydrogenase from NADH. The electrons are then passed to ubiquinone (coenzyme Q; site I), which carries them to the b-c2 complex. The electrons are then transferred to cytochrome c (site II), to cytochrome oxidase (site III), and finally to oxygen.


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conversion of alcohol

...ADH and of aldehyde dehydrogenase—require a coenzyme, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), the acceptor of hydrogen from the alcohol molecule, for their effects. The NAD is thus changed to NADH and becomes available again for the same reaction only after its own further oxidation. While adequate ADH seems always present for the first step of alcohol metabolism, the temporary reduction...

metabolic function in mitochondria

...the hydrogen atoms are transferred to the cell’s most important hydrogen acceptors, the coenzymes nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD +) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), yielding NADH and FADH 2. It is the subsequent oxidation of these hydrogen acceptors that leads eventually to the production of ATP.

organosulfur compounds

Examples of organosulfur compounds.

oxidation of fatty acids

The two-carbon residues of acetyl-CoA are oxidized to CO 2 and water, with conservation of chemical energy in the form of FADH 2 and NADH and a small amount of ATP. This process is carried out in a series of nine enzymatically catalyzed reactions in the mitochondrial matrix space. The reactions form a closed cycle, often called the citric acid, tricarboxylic acid, or Krebs...

plant physiology

Weeping willow (Salix babylonica).
...ATP molecules and hydrogen; the latter is accepted by the coenzyme (coenzymes are smaller, nonprotein participants associated with certain enzymes) nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) to form NADH. The hydrogen on NADH then reacts either with molecular oxygen (O 2) to capture the energy (and transfer it to the high-energy bonds of ATP) or with another metabolite to reduce the...
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