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reductases

reductases is the plural of reductase.

Meaning of reductase

Noun

reductase (plural reductases)

  1. An enzyme that chemically reduces its substrate.
    • disulfide reduction by glutathione is a three-step process, the last of which is catalyzed by glutathione reductase2008, Louis J. Casarett, Curtis D. Klaassen, Casarett and Doull's toxicology: the basic science of poisons, McGraw-Hill Professional, page 187

Phrases with reductases

Questions about reductases

What is reductases the plural of?
Reductases is the plural of reductase.

Words near reductases in the dictionary

  1. reducing sugars
  2. reduct
  3. reductant
  4. reductants
  5. reductase
  6. reductases
  7. reductasic
  8. reducted
  9. reductibilities
  10. reductibility
  11. reducting

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