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beta subunit of ethylbenzene-dehydrogenase (EBDH) This subfamily includes ethylbenzene dehydrogenase (EBDH, EC 1.17.99.2), a member of the DMSO reductase family. EBDH oxidizes the hydrocarbon ethylbenzene to (S)-1-phenylethanol. It is a heterotrimer, with the alpha subunit containing the catalytic center with a molybdenum held by two molybdopterin-guanine dinucleotides, the beta subunit containing four iron-sulfur clusters (the electron transfer subunit) and the gamma subunit containing a methionine and a lysine as axial heme ligands. During catalysis, electrons produced by substrate oxidation are transferred to a heme in the gamma subunit and then presumably to a separate cytochrome involved in nitrate respiration.
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