Title: A comparative study of trimethylamine-N-oxide biosynthesis
Abstract: A broad spectrum of species of plants and animals have been examined for their ability to convert trimethylamine to its N-oxide. Of the animal species studied, and under the conditions used in this investigation, trimethylamine-N-oxide synthesis from trimethylamine seems generally to be restricted to the vertebrates. Within this group at least one example of each class has been shown competent to carry out the reaction. An exhaustive examination of fishes has shown elasmobranches, and both fresh- and salt-water teleost to be active in trimethylamine-N-oxide biosynthesis; however, many species of fishes did not given detectable trimethylamine-N-oxide synthesis under the conditions of assay. Although all attempts to demonstrate trimethylamine-N-oxide synthesis in plants in vitro were negative, suggestive evidence was obtained that certain plants can carry out this synthesis in vivo.
Publication Year: 1963
Publication Date: 1963-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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