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Laccase

Laccase is a diphenol oxidase. Oxidoreductases Acting on diphenols and related substances as donors with oxygen as acceptor (Science: enzyme) An enzyme oxidizing benzenediols to semiquinones with O2.

Synonym: diphenol oxidase, phenolase, polyphenol oxidase, urushiol oxidase.

(tyrosinase is a monophenol monooxygenase )


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