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Catalase is a heme-iron enzyme that decomposes hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen. In microbial peroxide defense, it acts downstream of superoxide dismutase: superoxide dismutase converts superoxide to hydrogen peroxide, and catalase removes that hydrogen peroxide …
This page synthesizes findings across 1,426 source pages to map the relationships between metals and disease. Where individual source pages document a single study's findings, this page identifies the patterns that emerge when those findings are laid side by side. ADVER…
A non-essential metal with a 5,000-year history of antimicrobial use, silver has re-emerged as a critical tool in the post-antibiotic era. What makes silver particularly interesting from a metallomics perspective is not that it kills bacteria -- many metals do -- but ho…
The primary architect of dental caries -- the most prevalent chronic infectious disease worldwide. S. mutans is a Gram-positive, facultative anaerobe that colonizes tooth surfaces and produces the acid-rich, metal-managed biofilms known as dental plaque. What sets this …