- Look up
cofactor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Cofactor may also
refer to:
Cofactor (biochemistry), a
substance that
needs to be
present in addition...
- A
cofactor is a non-protein
chemical compound or
metallic ion that is
required for an enzyme's role as a
catalyst (a
catalyst is a
substance that increases...
- from
square matrices (first minors) are
required for
calculating matrix cofactors,
which are
useful for
computing both the
determinant and
inverse of square...
- activity.
Others require non-protein
molecules called cofactors to be
bound for activity.
Cofactors can be
either inorganic (e.g.,
metal ions and iron–sulfur...
- "From
Genetic Footprinting to
Antimicrobial Drug Targets:
Examples in
Cofactor Biosynthetic Pathways". J. Bacteriol. 184 (16): 4555–4572. doi:10.1128/JB...
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Cofactor engineering, a
subset of
metabolic engineering, is
defined as the mani****tion of the use of
cofactors in an organism’s
metabolic pathways. In...
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FeMoco (FeMo
cofactor) or M-cluster is the
primary cofactor of nitrogenase.
Nitrogenase is the
enzyme that
catalyzes the
conversion of
atmospheric nitrogen...
- A
molybdenum cofactor is a
biochemical cofactor that
contains molybdenum.
Examples include:
Molybdopterin (or,
strictly speaking, the molybdopterin-molybdenum-complex)...
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Molybdenum cofactor deficiency is a rare
human disease in
which the
absence of
molybdopterin – and
consequently its
molybdenum complex,
commonly called...
- An
azadithiolate cofactor is an
anion with the
formula NH(CH2S)22−. It is used as a
cofactor in the [FeFe] hydrogenases,
bacterial enzymes responsible...
