Substrate specificity of N-methyltransferase involved in purine alkaloids synthesis is dependent upon one amino acid residue of the enzyme

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 275, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-135

  Yoneyama, Naho ^a   Morimoto, Hanayo ^a   Ye, Chuang Xing ^b   Ashihara, Hiroshi ^a   Mizuno, Kouichi ^c   Kato, Misako ^a  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caffeine; Caffeine synthase; Camellia, Theobromine; Theobroma cacao; Theobromine synthase

Indexed keywords

3 N METHYLTRANSFERASE; ALKALOID; AMINO ACID; CAFFEINE SYNTHASE; ENZYME; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PURINE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; THEOBROMINE; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CACAO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE ISOLATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEA;

ALKALOIDS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CACAO; CAFFEINE; CAMELLIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, PLANT; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THEOBROMINE;

CAMELLIA; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; THEOBROMA; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 32444439665     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-005-0070-z     Document Type: Article

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