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Uyen Bao Chu

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Methylation of Thiols and Thioethers by Human Indolethylamine‐N Methyl Transferase

The FASEB Journal April 1, 2015 Uyen Bao Chu, Timur A. Mavlyutov, Amanda Schulman et al. 10 citations

Indolethylamine‐N MethylTransferase (INMT) is a small molecule N‐methyltransferase that transfer methyl groups from S‐Adenosyl‐L‐Methionine (SAM) to indoleamines. Methylation of tryptamine produces the hallucinogen, N,N‐dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and methylated serotonin generates bufotenin. In animals, the endogenous production of DMT has been proposed to be a regulator of the Sigma‐1 Receptor...