UniProt functional annotation for O30642

UniProt code: O30642.

Organism: Methanosarcina barkeri.
Taxonomy: Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Stenosarchaea group; Methanomicrobia; Methanosarcinales; Methanosarcinaceae; Methanosarcina.
 
Function: Catalyzes the transfer of the methyl group from monomethylamine to the corrinoid cofactor of MtmC (MtmC1 or MtmC2). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:9195968, ECO:0000269|PubMed:9642198}.
 
Catalytic activity: Reaction=[Co(I) methylamine-specific corrinoid protein] + H(+) + methylamine = [methyl-Co(III) methylamine-specific corrinoid protein] + NH4(+); Xref=Rhea:RHEA:26059, Rhea:RHEA-COMP:11120, Rhea:RHEA- COMP:11121, ChEBI:CHEBI:15378, ChEBI:CHEBI:28938, ChEBI:CHEBI:59338, ChEBI:CHEBI:85033, ChEBI:CHEBI:85035; EC=2.1.1.248; Evidence={ECO:0000269|PubMed:9195968};
Pathway: One-carbon metabolism; methanogenesis from methylamine.
Subunit: Dimer of homotrimers. Can form a complex with MtmC (MtmC1 or MtmC2).
Mass spectrometry: Mass=50105; Mass_error=2; Method=Electrospray; Evidence={ECO:0000269|PubMed:11435424};
Miscellaneous: MtmB1 transcript is abundant relative to the mtmB2 transcript.
Similarity: Belongs to the monomethylamine methyltransferase family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.