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Dihydrofolate reductase or DHFR is an enzyme that reduces dihydrofolic acid to tetrahydrofolic acid using NADPH as electron donor which can be converted to the kinds of tetrahydrofolate cofactors used in 1-carbon transfer chemistry. In humans the DHFR enzyme is encoded by the DHFR gene.It is found in the q11→q22 region of chromosome 5.Bacterial species possesses distinct DHFR enzymes (based on their pattern of binding diaminoheterocyclic molecules) but mammalian DHFRs are highly similar.

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