Chemicals and Drugs

Monophenol Monooxygenase

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.

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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.

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  • Cresolase
  • Dopa Oxidase
  • Phenol Oxidase
  • Phenoloxidase
  • Tyrosinase
  • Monooxygenase, Monophenol
  • Oxidase, Dopa
  • Oxidase, Phenol
  • Phenoloxidase A
  • Phenoloxidase B

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Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, biosynthesis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, deficiency, drug effects, economics, genetics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, physiology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, ultrastructure, urine.

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/defic: consider also ALBINISM

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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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  • Diphenol Oxidases (1968-1976)
  • Tyrosine Decarboxylase (1966-1967)

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Monophenol Monooxygenase. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014442. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014442
  2. Monophenol Monooxygenase. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76616501