Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Glucose-6-phosphate Dehydrogenase

An enzyme in the hexose monophosphate pathway, the only NADPH-generation process in mature red blood cells, which lack the citric acid cycle. About 325 allelic variants are known.

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glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (Deficiency of the red cell enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), the basis of favism ...)
alcohol dehydrogenase (An enzyme present in most organisms that breaks down products (alcohols) which are the result of ...)
diabetes insipidus, nephrogenic, type 1 (Inherited disease of the kidneys marked by thirst and dehydration that causes copious urination ...)
favism (Severe anemia due to abnormally low amounts of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, ...)
G6PD deficiency (See glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.)