Spermidine Synthase
"Spermidine Synthase" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of the propylamine moiety from 5'-deoxy-5'-S-(3-methylthiopropylamine)sulfonium adenosine to putrescine in the biosynthesis of spermidine. The enzyme has a molecular weight of approximately 73,000 kDa and is composed of two subunits of equal size.
| Descriptor ID |
D011436
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.913.225.825
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| Concept/Terms |
Spermidine Synthase- Spermidine Synthase
- Synthase, Spermidine
- Propylamine Transferase
- Transferase, Propylamine
- Spermidine Synthetase
- Synthetase, Spermidine
- Aminopropyltransferase
- Putrescine Aminopropyltransferase
- Aminopropyltransferase, Putrescine
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