REDUCTASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reductase mean? 

• REDUCTASE (noun)
  The noun REDUCTASE has 1 sense:

1. an enzyme that catalyses the biochemical reduction of some specified substance

  Familiarity information: REDUCTASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDUCTASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An enzyme that catalyses the biochemical reduction of some specified substance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("reductase" is a kind of...):

enzyme (any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reductase"):

5-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase; HMG-CoA reductase (a liver enzyme that is responsible for producing cholesterol)

 Context examples 

Methionine synthase reductase (725 aa, ~80 kDa) is encoded by the human MTRR gene.

(Methionine Synthase Reductase, NCI Thesaurus)

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (656 aa, ~75 kDa) is encoded by the human MTHFR gene.

(Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes carbonyl reductase [NADPH] 3 protein, is involved in the metabolism of carbonyl-containing compounds.

(CBR3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Caracemide inhibits ribonuclease reductase, resulting in decreased DNA synthesis and tumor growth; it also inhibits acetylcholinesterase.

(Caracemide, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a type of 5-alpha reductase inhibitor.

(Avodart, NCI Dictionary)

This allele, which encodes methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase protein, plays a role in the methylation of homocysteine to form methionine.

(MTHFR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is acid fast, grows rapidly on egg medium, is urease, arylsulfatase and nitrate reductase positive, benzamidase and isonicotinamidase negative, and has a relatively low tolerance to cefmetazole and cefoxitin.

(Mycobacterium peregrinum, NCI Thesaurus)

Glutathione disulfide (GSSG) is reduced by glutathione reductase to GSH.

(Oxiglutatione, NCI Thesaurus)

Piritrexim inhibits the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase enzyme, thereby disrupting folate metabolism and DNA synthesis and cell division.

(Piritrexim, NCI Thesaurus)

The recommended name will be dehydrogenase, wherever this is possible; as an alternative, reductase can be used.

(Oxidoreductase, NCI Thesaurus)