Description | Most members of this family are pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, E1 component. It includes a counterexample from Pseudomonas putida, MdeB, that is active as an E1 component of an alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex rather than a pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. The second pyruvate dehydrogenase complex E1 protein from Ralstonia eutropha (Alcaligenes eutrophus), PdhE, complements an aceE mutant of Escherichia coli but is not part of a pyruvate dehydrogenase complex operon, is more similar to the Pseudomonas putida MdeB than to E. coli AceE, and may have also have a different primary specificity. | Name | Pyruvate dehydrogenase E1 component |
Short Name | PDH_E1 | Type | Family |