Pyruvate dehydrogenase is an enzyme that converts pyruvate products of glycolysis or other metabolic pathways e.g. amino acid interconversion, into acetyl coenzyme A. It is sited on the inner mitochondrial membrane and so pyruvate must first traverse the mitochondrial membrane by combining with a protein carrier molecule.
The reaction requires substrates of:
It yields products:
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