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English
Etymology
From molybdo- + enzyme.
Noun
molybdoenzyme (plural molybdoenzymes)
- (biochemistry) Any metalloenzyme in which the active metal is molybdenum.
1973 December 15, “CO2 reductase from Clostridium pasteurianum: Molybdenum dependence of synthesis and inactivation by cyanide”, in FEBS Letters, volume 38, number 1, page 45:In the present investigation evidence is presented indicating that the CO2 reductase from Cl. pasteurianum most probably is a molybdoenzyme: It is synthesized only in the presence of molybdenum and is inactivated by low concentrations of cyanide, as are other molybdoenzymes.
2016, Valeria Culotta, Metals in Cells, page 26:Many organisms possessed several molybdoenzyme families and several subfamilies within these families. In archaea, as in bacteria, DMSOR was also the most frequently used molybdoenzyme family (>95% of Mo-utilizing organisms).
2016, Russ Hille, Molybdenum and Tungsten Enzymes, page 118:While eukaryotes produce only a limited number of enzymes belonging to the sulfite oxidase and xanthine oxidase families (for instance, four molybdoenzymes are present in humans), enzymes of all three families are present in prokaryotes with enzymes of the DMSO reductase family being predominant.