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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]. 1928Physiol. Abstr. XIII. 141 The oxydoreductase of yeast, unlike that from milk, acts on methyl glyoxal almost as strongly as on acetaldehyde. 1958Nature 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]. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VI. 897/2 Oxidoreductases and transferases account for about 50 percent of the approximately 1,000 enzymes recognized thus far. |