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monoxygenase

monoxygenase is the alternative form of monooxygenase.

Meaning of monooxygenase

Noun

monooxygenase (plural monooxygenases)

  1. 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

Forms of monoxygenase

pluralmonoxygenases

Questions about monoxygenase

What is monoxygenase the alternative form of?
Monoxygenase is the alternative form of monooxygenase.

Words near monoxygenase in the dictionary

  1. monoxide
  2. monoxides
  3. monoxids
  4. monoxime
  5. monoximes
  6. monoxygenase
  7. monoxygenases
  8. monoxyle
  9. monoxyles
  10. monoxylic
  11. monoxylon

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