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Monophenol Monooxygenase  

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Entry terms

  • Cresolase
  • Dopa Oxidase
  • Oxidase, Dopa
  • Oxidase, Phenol
  • Phenol Oxidase
  • Phenoloxidase
  • Tyrosinase

Note

  • /defic: consider also ALBINISM

Scope note

  • An enzyme of the oxidoreductase class that catalyzes the reaction between L-tyrosine, L-dopa, and oxygen to yield L-dopa, dopaquinone, and water. It is a copper protein that acts also on catechols, catalyzing some of the same reactions as CATECHOL OXIDASE. EC 1.14.18.1.

History note

  • 92; was TYROSINASE 1977-91 (see under DIPHENOL OXIDASES 1977-90); TYROSINASE was see DIPHENOL OXIDASES 1975-76, see under DIPHENOL OXIDASES 1968-74 & see TYROSINE DECARBOXYLASE 1963-67; DOPA OXIDASE was heading 1973-91 (see under DIPHENOL OXIDASES 1968-90 (Prov 1973-74)), was see under TYROSINE DECARBOXYLASE 1963-67

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