Function
Dehydrogenase that mediates the formation of 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (2,5-DHBA), a siderophore that shares structural similarities with bacterial enterobactin and associates with LCN2, thereby playing a key role in iron assimilation and homeostasis (PubMed:20550936, PubMed:24863067). Plays a role in susceptibility to bacterial infection by providing an assimilable source of iron that is exploited by pathogenic bacteria (PubMed:24863067). Also acts as a 3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (By similarity).