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  • noun biochemistry Any of several enzymes that catalyze reactions involving molecular oxygen.

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  • Synosia brings a pipeline that includes two mid-stage drug candidates: one for Parkinson's disease, and a potential first-in-class hydroxyphenyl-pyruvate dioxygenase inhibitor intended for movement disorders.

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  • Carbazole was converted by carbazole 1,9a-dioxygenase (CARDO, CarAaAcFdr), meta-cleavage enzyme (CarBaBb), and hydrolase (CarC) to anthranilate and

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  • Genes D17 and D10 were shown to produce carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase (CCD), which cleaves a group of pigments called carotenoids.

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  • MSU microbiology and molecular genetics professor, and Denis Proshlyakov of MSU's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology developed a new method of slowing down enzymes and analyzed the steps in the reaction process of the bacterial enzyme Taurine/alpha-ketoglutarate dioxygenase, or TauD.

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  • The bacterial enzyme Taurine/alpha-ketoglutarate dioxygenase, or TauD, serves as a model for several other proteins in the human body and in nature, said Proshlyakov, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

    State News Top Stories 2010

  • Taurine/alpha-ketoglutarate dioxygenase, known as TauD, is a bacterial enzyme that is important in metabolism.

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  • The University of Illinois scientists identified the enzyme IDO (indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase) as a molecular switch that induces depressive symptoms in some cases.

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  • But high doses block inflammation by increasing expression of the enzyme indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase, or IDO, an immunosuppressor, the researchers say.

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  • Thymine dioxygenase 1.14.11.6 Km-Value (mM) 0.0011

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  • But high doses block inflammation by increasing expression of the enzyme indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase, or IDO, an immunosuppressor, the researchers say.

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