Four families of folate-independent methionine synthases.

Although most organisms synthesize methionine from homocysteine and methyl folates, some have "core" methionine synthases that lack folate-binding domains and use other methyl donors. In vitro, the characterized core synthases use methylcobalamin as a methyl donor, but in vivo, they probab...

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Main Authors: Morgan N Price, Adam M Deutschbauer, Adam P Arkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-02-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1009342&type=printable