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Malate dehydrogenase is an enzyme in the citric acid cycle that catalyzes the conversion of malate into oxaloacetate (using NAD+) and vice versa (this is a reversible reaction).
Malate dehydrogenase is also involved in gluconeogenesis, the synthesis of glucose from smaller molecules. Pyruvate in the mitochondria is acted upon by pyruvate carboxylase to form oxalocacetate, a citric acid cycle intermediate. In order to get the oxaloacetate out of the mitochondria, malate dehydrogenase reduces it to malate, and it then traverses the inner mitochondrial membrane. Once in the cytosol, the malate is oxidized back to oxaloacetate by cytosolic malate dehydrogenase. Finally, phosphoenol-pyruvate carboxy kinase (PEPCK) converts oxaloacetate to phosphoenol pyruvate.

2007-01-17 04:25:49 · answer #1 · answered by MSK 4 · 0 0

In Kreb's cycle which is an important energy yielding metabolic cycle in aerobic respiration malatedehydrogenase acts as catalytic enzyme which converts malate in to oxaloacetate

2007-01-18 01:37:25 · answer #2 · answered by pushpa 2 · 0 0

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