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EC 1.2.1.94 - Farnesal dehydrogenase

IntEnz Enzyme Nomenclature
EC 1.2.1.94

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• 24216 [IUBMB]
  (2E,6E)-farnesal

  (2E,6E)-farnesal

  Name origin: UniProt - CHECKED (C)

  CHEBI:15894

  Formula: C15H24O
  Charge: 0

  ChEBI compound status: CHECKED (C)

  

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  H₂O

  H2O

  Name origin: UniProt - CHECKED (C)

  CHEBI:15377

  Formula: H2O
  Charge: 0

  ChEBI compound status: CHECKED (C)

  

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  NAD⁺

  NAD(+)

  Name origin: UniProt - CHECKED (C)

  CHEBI:57540

  Formula: C21H26N7O14P2
  Charge: -1

  ChEBI compound status: CHECKED (C)

  

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  (2E,6E)-farnesoate

  (2E,6E)-farnesoate

  Name origin: UniProt - CHECKED (C)

  CHEBI:83276

  Formula: C15H23O2
  Charge: -1

  ChEBI compound status: CHECKED (C)

  

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  2

  H⁺

  H(+)

  Name origin: UniProt - CHECKED (C)

  CHEBI:15378

  Formula: H
  Charge: 1

  ChEBI compound status: CHECKED (C)

  

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  NADH

  NADH

  Name origin: UniProt - CHECKED (C)

  CHEBI:57945

  Formula: C21H27N7O14P2
  Charge: -2

  ChEBI compound status: CHECKED (C)

  

Comments:

Invoved in juvenile hormone production in insects. The enzyme was described from the corpora allata of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly), Manduca sexta (tobacco hornworm) and Aedes aegypti (dengue mosquito).

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References

1. Madhavan, K., Conscience-Egli, M., Sieber, F., Ursprung, H.
   Farnesol metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster: ontogeny and tissue distribution of octanol dehydrogenase and aldehyde oxidase.
   J. Insect Physiol. 19 : 235-241 (1973). [PMID: 4631837]
2. Baker, F. C., Mauchamp, B., Tsai, L. W., Schooley, D. A.
   Farnesol and farnesal dehydrogenase(s) in corpora allata of the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta.
   J. Lipid Res. 24 : 1586-1594 (1983). [PMID: 6366103]
3. Rivera-Perez, C., Nouzova, M., Clifton, M. E., Garcia, E. M., LeBlanc, E., Noriega, F. G.
   Aldehyde dehydrogenase 3 converts farnesal into farnesoic acid in the corpora allata of mosquitoes.
   Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 43 : 675-682 (2013). [PMID: 23639754]

[EC 1.2.1.94 created 2015]