OXIDASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oxidase mean? 

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

1. any of the enzymes that catalyze biological oxidation

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OXIDASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the enzymes that catalyze biological oxidation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("oxidase" 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 "oxidase"):

peroxidase (any of a group of enzymes (occurring especially in plant cells) that catalyze the oxidation of a compound by a peroxide)

 Context examples 

NADPH oxidase 4 (578 aa, ~67 kDa) is encoded by the human NOX4 gene.

(NADPH Oxidase 4, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is motile, oxidase and catalase positive, beta hemolytic and produces gas from glucose.

(Aeromonas punctata, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is oxidase and catalase positive, nonmotile and asaccharolytic.

(Moraxella osloensis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is oxidase and catalase positive, does not reduce nitrate and is negative for urea and lysine hydrolysis.

(Moraxella oblonga, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is oxidase and catalase positive, reduces nitrate, hydrolyzes urea and is indole negative.

(Actinobacillus ureae, NCI Thesaurus)

The Brazilian biosensor can identify an enzyme called glucose oxidase — widely used to detect free glucose in body fluids — in tears, eliminating the need for finger pricking.

(Brazilian researchers eye biosensors to monitor diabetes, SciDev.Net)

This species is oxidase positive, negative for urease, phenylalanine deaminase and tryptophan deaminase, is unable to grow on solid medium at 4 to 10 degrees C, and is relatively halointolerant.

(Moraxella atlantae, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is motile by polar flagella, oxidase positive and hemolytic.

(Aeromonas sobria, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, nonfermentative, forms yellow pigmented colonies, catalase positive, oxidase negative and hydrolyzes esculin and gelatin.

(Microbacterium paraoxydans, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile by one to six flagella that originate from the same spot on each cell and is oxidase, indole and catalase negative.

(Mobiluncus curtisii, NCI Thesaurus)