oxidoreductase Biochem.
(ˌɒxɪdəʊrɪˈdʌkteɪz, -s)
Also † oxydo-.
[ad. F. oxydo-réducase (Battelli & Stern 1921, in Arch. internat. de Physiol. XVIII. 413), f. oxyde oxide n. + réduc-tion reduction: see -ase.]
Any enzyme that catalyses oxidoreduction.
| 1922 [see hydratase]. 1922 [see hydrolase]. 1928 Physiol. Abstr. XIII. 141 The oxydoreductase of yeast, unlike that from milk, acts on methyl glyoxal almost as strongly as on acetaldehyde. 1958 Nature 15 Feb. 452/2 Enzymes catalysing oxido-reductions would be named oxidoreductases in the systematic nomenclature, according to the scheme ‘donor-acceptor reductase’. 1964 [see oxidase]. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VI. 897/2 Oxidoreductases and transferases account for about 50 percent of the approximately 1,000 enzymes recognized thus far. |