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SUBMITTER: Ravanel S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC22764 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ravanel S S Gakière B B Job D D Douce R R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19980601 13
Plants, unlike other higher eukaryotes, possess all the necessary enzymatic equipment for de novo synthesis of methionine, an amino acid that supports additional roles than simply serving as a building block for protein synthesis. This is because methionine is the immediate precursor of S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet), which plays numerous roles of being the major methyl-group donor in transmethylation reactions and an intermediate in the biosynthesis of polyamines and of the phytohormone ethylene ...[more]