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hydrogenase

noun

Etymology

From hydrogen + -ase, after dehydrogenase.

  1. derived from *ǵenh₁-✻ — “to beget, produce; to give birth”
  2. derived from *wed-✻ — “water”
  3. derived from ῠ̔δρο-
  4. borrowed from hydrogène — “hydrogen”
  5. suffixed as hydrogenase — “hydrogen + ase”

Definitions

  1. Any enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of a substrate by the reversible oxidation of…

    Any enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of a substrate by the reversible oxidation of hydrogen.

The neighborhood

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