IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 2.1.1.378

Accepted name: [methyl-Co(III) glycine betaine-specific corrinoid protein]—tetrahydrofolate methyltransferase

Reaction: a [methyl-Co(III) glycine betaine-specific corrinoid protein] + tetrahydrofolate = a [Co(I) glycine betaine-specific corrinoid protein] + 5-methyltetrahydrofolate

Other name(s): mtgA (gene name); DSY3157 (locus name)

Systematic name: [methyl-Co(III) glycine betaine-specific corrinoid protein]:tetrahydrofolate N-methyltransferase

Comments: This enzyme, characterized from the anaerobic bacterium Desulfitobacterium hafniense Y51, catalyses a similar reaction to that of EC 2.1.1.258, 5-methyltetrahydrofolate—corrinoid/iron-sulfur protein Co-methyltransferase, but in the opposite direction, transferring a methyl group from a methylated corrinoid protein to tetrahydrofolate. The corrinoid protein is specifically methylated by EC 2.1.1.376, glycine betaine—corrinoid protein Co-methyltransferase.

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References:

1. Ticak, T., Kountz, D.J., Girosky, K.E., Krzycki, J.A. and Ferguson, D.J., Jr. A nonpyrrolysine member of the widely distributed trimethylamine methyltransferase family is a glycine betaine methyltransferase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111 (2014) E4668-E4676. [PMID: 25313086]

[EC 2.1.1.378 created 2021]


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