Monooxygenase


monooxygenase mon·o·ox·y·gen·ase (mŏn’ō-ŏk’sĭ-jə-nās’, -nāz’)
n.
Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze both the addition of a single oxygen atom from molecular oxygen into a substrate and the reduction of a second oxygen atom in the substrate to water.

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