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Characterization of phenylpropene O-methyltransferases from sweet basil: facile change of substrate specificity and convergent evolution within a plant O-methyltransferase family.
The Plant cell - 1 Feb 2002
Gang David R, Lavid Noa, Zubieta Chloe, Chen Feng, Beuerle Till, Lewinsohn Efraim, Noel Joseph P, Pichersky Eran
Abstract excerpt
Some basil varieties are able to convert the phenylpropenes chavicol and eugenol to methylchavicol and methyleugenol, respectively. Chavicol O-methyltransferase (CVOMT) and eugenol O-methyltransferase (EOMT) cDNAs were isolated from the sweet basil variety EMX-1 using a biochemical genomics approach. These cDNAs encode proteins that are 90% identical to each other and very similar to several isoflavone...
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