Definition of Hydrogenase

1. Noun. (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the formation of hydrogen, or the reversible oxidation of hydrogen. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hydrogenase

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Medical Definition of Hydrogenase

1. An enzyme which oxidizes hydrogen (removes its electrons) and attaches it to another molecule. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrogenase

hydrogen sodium arsenate
hydrogen spectral series
hydrogen spectrum
hydrogen station
hydrogen sulfate
hydrogen sulfide
hydrogen sulfite
hydrogen sulphate
hydrogen sulphide
hydrogen sulphite
hydrogen telluride
hydrogen transport
hydrogen vehicle
hydrogen vehicles
hydrogen warhead
hydrogenase (current term)
hydrogenases
hydrogenate
hydrogenated
hydrogenates
hydrogenating
hydrogenation
hydrogenations
hydrogenative
hydrogenator
hydrogenators
hydrogenetted
hydrogenian
hydrogenic
hydrogenide

Literary usage of Hydrogenase

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biotechnology: Plant Nutrition: A Bibliography, January 1988-April 1993 by Janet Saunders (1994)
"... the hydrogenase structural operon from Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae. ... sequence of a 2.5-kbp region following the hydrogenase structural genes ..."

2. Bioremediation: The Tokyo '94 Workshop by OECD Staff, Tokyo '94 Workshop (1994), OECD (1995)
"The hydrogenase is either directly coupled to the photosynthetic ... There are different forms of hydrogenase, and their roles are not completely clear. ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1913)
"tion is made that, at equilibrium, oxygen from oxidase activity and hydrogen from hydrogenase activity form water or hydroxyl, thus checking oxidation in ..."

4. Milk and Its Hygienic Relations by Lane-Claypon Forber (1916)
"hydrogenase in Cows' Milk.—There remains one more substance to consider under the heading of reducing bodies, namely hydro- genase, or that ferment which ..."

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