Abstract
Catalase is an important enzyme that dissociates hydrogen peroxide in to molecular oxygen and water. It is an intracellular enzyme, produced by prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. Catalase enzyme has been discovered in all aerobic and facultative anaerobes but it is not present in obligate anaerobes. Catalase activity is usually proportional to the amount of dissociation of hydrogen peroxide.
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Aebi H (1984) Catalase in vitro. In: Methods in enzymology. Academic, San Diego, pp 121–126
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Senthilkumar, M., Amaresan, N., Sankaranarayanan, A. (2021). Estimation of Catalase. In: Plant-Microbe Interactions. Springer Protocols Handbooks. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1080-0_28
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