flavorubredoxin

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flavorubredoxin (uncountable)

  1. (biochemistry) A flavoprotein that reduces nitric oxide (NO) to nitrous oxide (N2O) under anaerobic conditions. It is an oxygen sensitive nitric oxide reductase that contributes to resistance to nitrosative killing by macrophages.