succinate dehydrogenase

noun

: an iron-containing flavoprotein enzyme that catalyzes often reversibly the dehydrogenation of succinic acid to fumaric acid in the Krebs cycle and that is widely distributed especially in animal tissues, bacteria, and yeast

called also succinic dehydrogenase

Word History

First Known Use

1962, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

succinate dehydrogenase

noun

: an iron-containing flavoprotein enzyme that catalyzes often reversibly the dehydrogenation of succinic acid to fumaric acid in the presence of a hydrogen acceptor and that is widely distributed especially in animal tissues, bacteria, and yeast

called also succinic dehydrogenase