Phenol O-methyltransferase
Class of enzymes
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Phenol O-methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.25) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
| Phenol O-methyltransferase | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 2.1.1.25 | ||||||||
| CAS no. | 37256-94-3 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| BRENDA | enzyme data | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | enzyme entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| Rhea | reactions | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
| Gene Ontology | AmiGO / QuickGO | ||||||||
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This is a methylation reaction in which phenol is converted to anisole. The methyl group comes from the cofactor, S-adenosyl methionine (SAM), which loses its methyl group and becomes S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine (SAH).[1]
This enzyme belongs to the family of transferases, specifically those transferring one-carbon group methyltransferases. The systematic name of this enzyme class is S-adenosyl-L-methionine:phenol O-methyltransferase. It is also called PMT and can convert other substituted phenols to their corresponding methyl ethers.[2]
