NCBI Accession #
NP_001105012.1
NCBI GenBank Nucleotide #
NM_001111542.2
NCBI Official Full Name
homocysteine S-methyltransferase 2
NCBI Official Symbol
HMT-2
NCBI Official Synonym Symbols
GRMZM2G117240
NCBI Protein Information
homocysteine S-methyltransferase 2
UniProt Synonym Gene Names
SMM:Hcy S-methyltransferase 2
UniProt Protein Name
Homocysteine S-methyltransferase 2
UniProt Synonym Protein Names
S-methylmethionine:homocysteine methyltransferase 2; SMM:Hcy S-methyltransferase 2; ZmHMT-2
UniProt Primary Accession #
Q9FUM9
UniProt Related Accession #
Q9FUM9
UniProt Comments
Catalyzes methyl transfer from S-methylmethionine (SMM) to adenosyl-L-homocysteine (AdoMet). SMM degradation (by HMT-1, HMT-2, HMT-3 and HMT-4) and biosynthesis (by MMT1) constitute the SMM cycle in plants, which is probably required to achieve short term control of AdoMet level .