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Superoxide

Description

Superoxide anion

Superoxide anion, O2-•, is a free radical formed in a one-electron reduction of molecular oxygen (red bullet in the figure), yielding a negatively charged molecule with a single unpaired electron (blue bullet on the left).

Abbreviation: O2-•



MitoPedia topics: Substrate and metabolite 

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