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Oxygenases and Dioxygenases
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Description: Oxygenases are enzymes that incorporate oxygen atoms from into the oxidized products; there are two classes—monooxygenases and dioxygenases.

Dioxygenases, which incorporate both atoms of into one substrate, are of limited distribution.

An example is tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase, which contains a heme cofactor and catalyzes the first reaction in tryptophan catabolism.
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