reductive
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To explore this idea, the researchers focused on heme copper oxygen reductases.
From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026
"Considering that the vast majority of reductases encoded by gut bacteria remain functionally uncharacterized, identified metabolisms may only scratch the surface of interactions between respiratory reductases and the gut metabolome," the study authors wrote.
From Salon • Jan. 5, 2024
While most of the genomes encode just a few reductases, a small subset encodes more than 30 different ones.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024
They saw a surprising distribution of genes that produce reductases, which are enzymes that use different respiratory electron acceptors.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024
Functional importance of a pair of conserved glutamic acid residues and of Ca2+ binding in the cbb 3-type oxygen reductases from Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Vibrio cholerae.
From Nature • Apr. 24, 2018
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