Research progress on application of superoxide dismutase (SOD).

Superoxide dismutase(SOD) catalyzes the disproportionation of univalently reduced oxygen to generate oxygen and hydrogen peroxide.SOD has been widely discovered in living organisms,including animals,plants and microorganisms and has been demonstrated to be an important antioxidant,which protects the cells exposed to the toxicity of oxygen.Recently,SOD has displayed huge application value and development prospect.This paper gave an sumarized SOD's function,its anti-oxygen mechanism,types and production mode,etc.,and also expounds the application situation and development potential of SOD in industries(pharmaceuticals,food and personal care products) and agriculture,so as to provide references for the further development and utilization of SOD products in China.