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hydrogenases

hydrogenases is the plural of hydrogenase.

Meaning of hydrogenase

Noun

hydrogenase (plural hydrogenases)

  1. Any enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of a substrate by the reversible oxidation of hydrogen.
    • It is clear from the experiments cited already that we are dealing with a bacterial enzyme comparable with the dehydrogenases, the substrate in this case being molecular hydrogen. […] In order to conform with the accepted terminology we suggest that this enzyme be called "hydrogenase."1930, Marjory Stephenson, LH Stickland, “Hydrogenase: a bacterial enzyme activating molecular hydrogen”, in Biochemical Journal

Questions about hydrogenases

What is hydrogenases the plural of?
Hydrogenases is the plural of hydrogenase.

Words near hydrogenases in the dictionary

  1. hydrogen-4
  2. hydrogen-bonded
  3. hydrogen-bonding
  4. hydrogen-like
  5. hydrogenase
  6. hydrogenases
  7. hydrogenate
  8. hydrogenated
  9. hydrogenates
  10. hydrogenating
  11. hydrogenation

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