glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity

id: GO:0004345
name: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity
namespace: molecular_function
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Catalysis of the reaction: D-glucose 6-phosphate + NADP+ = D-glucono-1,5-lactone 6-phosphate + NADPH + H+.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0016616oxidoreductase activity, acting on the CH-OH group of donors, NAD or NADP as acceptor