Dimethylglycine N-methyltransferase
| Dimethylglycine N-methyltransferase | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 2.1.1.161 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
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Dimethylglycine N-methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.161, BsmB, DMT) is an enzyme with systematic name S-adenosyl-L-methionine:N,N-dimethylglycine N-methyltransferase (betaine-forming).[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
This enzyme is purified from the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. WH8102.
References
[edit]- ^ Lu WD, Chi ZM, Su CD (December 2006). "Identification of glycine betaine as compatible solute in Synechococcus sp. WH8102 and characterization of its N-methyltransferase genes involved in betaine synthesis". Archives of Microbiology. 186 (6): 495–506. doi:10.1007/s00203-006-0167-8. PMID 17019606. S2CID 25210214.
External links
[edit]- Dimethylglycine+N-methyltransferase at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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