Uroporphyrinogen III methylase was purified from a recombinant hemB- strain of E. coli harbouring a plasmid containing the cysG gene. N-terminal analysis of this purified protein gave an amino acid sequence corresponding to that predicted from the genetic code. From the u.v./visible spectrum of the reaction catalysed by this SAM dependent methylase it was possible to observe the sequential appearance of the chromophores of a dipyrrocorphin and subsequently of a pyrrocorphin. Confirmation of this transformation was obtained from 13C-NMR studies when it was demonstrated, for the first time directly, that uroporphyrinogen is initially converted into dihydrosirohydrochlorin (precorrin-2) and then, by further methylation, into a novel trimethylpyrrocorphin. © 1990.
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Warren, M. J., Stolowich, N. J., Santander, P. J., Roessner, C. A., Sowa, B. A., & Scott, A. I. (1990). Enzymatic synthesis of dihydrosirohydrochlorin (precorrin-2) and of a novel pyrrocorphin by uroporphyrinogen III methylase. FEBS Letters, 261(1), 76–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(90)80640-5
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