“dihydrofolate”

We have one entry that includes the term dihydrofolate.

dihydrofolate reductase

noun

: an enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of a folate which has one of its rings with two double bonds and two attached hydrogen atoms into the dihydro form which differs only in having one double bond and four hydrogen atoms in the same ring abbreviation DHFR


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