cholesterol monooxygenase (side-chain-cleaving) activity

id: GO:0008386
name: cholesterol monooxygenase (side-chain-cleaving) activity
namespace: molecular_function
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Catalysis of the reaction: cholesterol + reduced adrenal ferredoxin + O2 = pregnenolone + 4-methylpentanal + oxidized adrenal ferredoxin + H2O.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0008395steroid hydroxylase activity
GO:0016713oxidoreductase activity, acting on paired donors, with incorporation or reduction of molecular oxygen, reduced iron-sulfur protein as one donor, and incorporation of one atom of oxygen