monooxygenase
Meanings
noun
- Any oxygenase enzyme that catalyzes the incorporation of a single atom of molecular oxygen into a substrate, the other atom being reduced to water; active in the metabolism of many foreign compounds
Word forms
Etymology
From mono- + oxygenase.
Derived words
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