Osmoprotectant β-alanine betaine synthesis in the Plumbaginaceae: S-adenosyl-L-methionine dependent N-methylation of β-alanine to its betaine is via N-methyl and N,N-dimethyl β-alanines

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 225-231

  Rathinasabapathi, Bala ^a   Sigua, Celia ^a   Ho, Janice ^a   Gage, Douglas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BETA ALANINE; BETAINE; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; DECARBOXYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ISOTOPE LABELING; PH; RADIOMETRY; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SALINITY;

ARMERIA MARITIMA; LIMONIUM LATIFOLIUM; LIMONIUM PEREZII; LIMONIUM RAMOSISSIMUM;

EID: 0033938119     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2000.100302.x     Document Type: Article

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