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Description
Superoxide anion, O2-β’, 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-β’
MitoPedia topics: Substrate and metabolite