Article
Isolation and functional expression in Escherichia coli of a gene encoding phosphatidylethanolamine methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.17) from Rhodobacter sphaeroides.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 25 Jul 1993
Arondel V, Benning C, Somerville C R
Abstract excerpt
Phosphatidylcholine is a major component of membranes in most eukaryotes, but it is found only in a small number of bacteria, where it is synthesized by N-methylation of phosphatidylethanolamine. In yeast and other fungi the methylation of phosphatidylethanolamine to phosphatidylcholine proceeds...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Methyltransferases
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Phosphatidyl-N-Methylethanolamine N-Methyltransferase
- Phosphatidylcholines
- Phosphatidylethanolamine N-Methyltransferase
- Rhodobacter sphaeroides