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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any oxygenase enzyme that catalyzes the incorporation of a single atom of molecular oxygen into a substrate, the other atom being reduced to water; active in the metabolism of many foreign compounds

Etymology

From mono- + oxygenase.

Related phrases

monophenol monooxygenase

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