1. An enzyme that catalyzes the incorporation of oxygen from molecular oxygen into organic substrates.
Usage: biochemistry; molecular biology

Examples

• Cytochrome P450 is a major oxygenase involved in drug metabolism.
• The oxygenase enzyme breaks down pollutants by adding oxygen atoms to their molecular structure.
• Researchers studied how the oxygenase catalyzes the oxidation of aromatic compounds.
• Monooxygenases and dioxygenases are two important classes of oxygenase enzymes.
• The bacterial oxygenase was essential for degrading the toxic compound in the contaminated soil.