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Definition of "peroxiredoxin" []

  • Any of a family of antioxidant enzymes that mediate signal transduction in mammalian cells (noun)

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Use "peroxiredoxin" in a sentence
  • "O'Neill and Reddy demonstrated that, in red blood cells from three individuals, peroxiredoxin levels stayed constant, but pairs of the proteins bound together and came apart in a twenty-four hour cycle."
  • "O. tauri, peroxiredoxin molecules bound together in couples and came apart in twenty-four hour cycles, even in the dark, even without transcription."
  • "You guessed it-using the same peroxiredoxin enzymes O'Neill and Reddy identified in human red blood cells."