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What is a reductase?

What is a reductase? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) An enzyme that chemically reduces its substrate.
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The enzymatic mechanism of detoxification involves dehydroascorbate reductase, glutathione reductase and other enzymes.
Transgenic yellow poplar plants overexpressing the bacterial gene encoding mercuric reductase were developed for the phytoremediation of mercury pollution.
Total tropinone reductase activity was measured photometrically by NADPH consumption with tropinone as substrate.
The polyol pathway uses the enzyme aldose reductase to convert glucose to sorbitol.
Sulphate reduction is initiated and carried out by the enzyme APS reductase in leaf and root plastids.
Use of 5-ethynyluracil in the manufacture of a medicament for use as a uracil reductase inactivator in cancer chemotherapy.

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