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Substrate and inhibitor specificities for human monoamine oxidase A and B are influenced by a single amino acid.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 30 Mar 2001
Geha R M, Rebrin I, Chen K, Shih J C
Abstract excerpt
Monoamine oxidase (MAO) is responsible for the oxidation of biogenic and dietary amines. It exists as two isoforms, A and B, which have a 70% amino acid identity and different substrate and inhibitor specificities. This study reports the identification of residues responsible for conferring this specificity in human MAO A and B. Using site-directed mutagenesis we reciprocally interchanged three pairs of...
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