Definition of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
: an enzyme found especially in red blood cells that dehydrogenates glucose-6-phosphate in a glucose degradation pathway alternative to the Krebs cycle
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The first known use of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase was in 1954
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