IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 1.18.1.2

Accepted name: ferredoxin—NADP+ reductase

Reaction: 2 reduced ferredoxin + NADP+ + H+ = 2 oxidized ferredoxin + NADPH

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Other name(s): adrenodoxin reductase; ferredoxin-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate reductase; ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase; TPNH-ferredoxin reductase; ferredoxin-NADP+ oxidoreductase; NADP+:ferredoxin oxidoreductase; ferredoxin-TPN reductase; reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-adrenodoxin reductase; ferredoxin-NADP+-oxidoreductase; NADPH:ferredoxin oxidoreductase; ferredoxin-nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide phosphate (oxidized) reductase; ferredoxin—NADP+ reductase

Systematic name: ferredoxin:NADP+ oxidoreductase

Comments: A flavoprotein. Can also reduce flavodoxin.

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, PDB, CAS registry number: 9029-33-8

References:

1. Omura, T., Sanders, E., Estabrook, R.W., Cooper, D.Y. and Rosenthal, O. Isolation from adrenal cortex of a nonheme iron protein and a flavoprotein functional as a reduced triphosphopyridine nucleotide-cytochrome P-450 reductase. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 117 (1966) 660-673.

2. Shin, M., Tagawa, K. and Arnon, D.I. Crystallization of ferredoxin-TPN reductase and its role in the photosynthetic apparatus of chloroplasts. Biochem. Z. 338 (1963) 84-96.

[EC 1.18.1.2 created 1965 as EC 1.6.99.4, transferred 1972 as EC 1.6.7.1, transferred 1978 to EC 1.18.1.2]


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