Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ferrireductase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fer-rire-duc-tase
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any enzyme that reduces ferric iron to ferrous, often as a byproduct of another operation

Example Sentences

"Furthermore, Fe 3+ is reduced to Fe 2+ by a ferrireductase in the endosomal membrane, the six transmembrane epithelial antigen of the prostate 3 [9, 10 ]."

Etymology

From ferri- + reductase.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: ferri

Inflected Forms

ferrireductases (plural)

Questions

What does ferrireductase mean?: Any enzyme that reduces ferric iron to ferrous, often as a byproduct of another operation
Where does ferrireductase come from?: From ferri- + reductase.

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