Dihydrocarveol dehydrogenase

Dihydrocarveol dehydrogenase (, "carveol dehydrogenase (ambiguous)") is an enzyme with systematic name "menth-8-en-2-ol:NAD+ oxidoreductase". This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
This enzyme from the Gram-positive bacterium "Rhodococcus erythropolis" DCL14 forms part of the carveol and dihydrocarveol degradation pathway. The enzyme accepts all eight stereoisomers of menth-8-en-2-ol as substrate, although some isomers are converted faster than others. The preferred substrates are (+)-neoisodihydrocarveol, (+)-isodihydrocarveol, (+)-dihydrocarveol and (-)-isodihydrocarveol.