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methylputrescine oxidase activity

Known as: N-methylputrescine:oxygen oxidoreductase (deaminating) activity 
Catalysis of the reaction: N-methylputrescine + H2O + O2 = N-methylaminobutanal + NH3 + hydrogen peroxide + H+. [MetaCyc:RXN-8244]
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2018
2018
Metabolic characterization of Hyoscyamus niger root-specific putrescine N-methyltransferase.
2016
2016
Potato plants with genetically engineered tropane alkaloid precursors
Solanum tuberosumtropinone reductase I reduced tropinone in vivo. Suppression of tropinone reductase II strongly reduced… 
2000
2000
N-methylputrescine oxidation during cocaine biosynthesis: study of prochiral methylene hydrogen discrimination using the remote isotope method.
[structure: see text] The stereoselectivity of N-methylputrescine (3) oxidation to pyrrolinium ion 4 in Erythroxylum coca during… 
1991
1991
Modulation of insulin induced ornithine decarboxylase by putrescine and methylputrescines in H-35 hepatoma cells
SummaryThe effect of several methylputrescines on the activity of insulin-induced ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) was examined in H… 
1989
1989
Putrescine and putrescine N-methyltransferase in the biosynthesis of tropane alkaloids in cultured roots of Hyoscyamus albus
Abstract[1,4-14C]Putrescine, administered to cultured roots of Hyoscyamus albus L., was converted to spermidine and spermine as… 
1988
1988
Interaction of alkylputrescines with ornithine decarboxylase from rat liver and Escherichia coli: an in vitro and in vivo study.
1987
1987
Oxidation of N‐alkyl and C‐alkylputrescines by diamine oxidases
1966
1966
[On the biosynthesis of tropanalkaloids. VI. N-methylputrescine as a potential first step of the pyrrolidine rings in hyoscyamine and scopolamine].
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