IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 2.1.1.301

Accepted name: cypemycin N-terminal methyltransferase

Reaction: 2 S-adenosyl-L-methionine + N-terminal L-alanine-[cypemycin] = 2 S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine + N-terminal N,N-dimethyl-L-alanine-[cypemycin]

Other name(s): CypM

Systematic name: S-adenosyl-L-methionine:N-terminal L-alanine-[cypemycin] N-methyltransferase

Comments: The enzyme, isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces sp. OH-4156, can methylate a variety of linear oligopeptides, cyclic peptides such as nisin and haloduracin, and the ε-amino group of lysine [2]. Cypemycin is a peptide antibiotic, a member of the linaridins, a class of posttranslationally modified ribosomally synthesized peptides.

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, Metacyc, CAS registry number:

References:

1. Claesen, J. and Bibb, M. Genome mining and genetic analysis of cypemycin biosynthesis reveal an unusual class of posttranslationally modified peptides. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107 (2010) 16297-16302. [PMID: 20805503]

2. Zhang, Q. and van der Donk, W.A. Catalytic promiscuity of a bacterial α-N-methyltransferase. FEBS Lett 586 (2012) 3391-3397. [PMID: 22841713]

[EC 2.1.1.301 created 2014]


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