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is MAO a kind of Molybdenum Hydroylase?

Is there any source on the internet can I loof for the classification of all enzymes? Such as the list of all Molybdenum Hydroylase?

thx 4 teaching

[Yggdrasil]

At the most basic level, enzymes are classified into one of 6 categories (oxidoreductase, transferase, hydrolase, lyase, isomerase, and ligase) based on the type of reaction they catalyze (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC_number for more information).  Monoamine oxidase would be classified as an oxidoreductase because it catalyzes the oxidation of a primary amine to an aldehyde.  It would not be classified as a hydrolase, because these enzymes catalyze hydrolysis/condensation reactions, not oxidation/reduction reactions.

[studytogether]

thx a lot!