Dehydratase
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Dehydratase is an enzyme that catalyzes the removal of oxygen and hydrogen from organic compounds in the form of water. This process is also known as dehydration.
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Active site - Binding site - Catalytically perfect enzyme - Coenzyme - Cofactor - EC number - Enzyme catalysis - Enzyme kinetics - Enzyme inhibitor - Lineweaver-Burk plot - Michaelis-Menten kinetics
EC1 Oxidoreductases,O+R+D/list (alcohol oxidoreductases, CH-CH oxidoreductases, peroxidase, oxygenase) - EC2 Transferases/list (methyltransferase, acyltransferase, glycosyltransferase, transaminase, phosphotransferase, polymerase, kinase) - EC3 Hydrolases/list (esterase, DNA glycosylases, glycosidase, protease, acid anhydride hydrolases) - EC4 Lyases/list (carboxy-lyases, aldolase, dehydratase, synthase, adenylate cyclase, guanylate cyclase) - EC5 Isomerases/list (mutase, topoisomerase) - EC6 Ligases/list (DNA ligase, aminoacyl tRNA synthetase)