Histamine N-methyltransferase (HMT) is one of two enzymes involved in the metabolism of histamine. The other being diamine oxidase . Histamine N-methyltransferase catalyzes the methylation of histamine in the presence of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) forming N-methylhistamine. HMT is present in most body tissues but is not present in fluid. Histamine N-methyltransferase is encoded by a single gene which has been mapped to chromosome 2.
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PDB [1] Horton, J.R., Sawada, K., Nishibori, M., Zhang, X., Cheng, X. (August 2002) "Crystal Structure Analysis of Human Histamine Methyltransferase (Thr105 Polymorphic Variant) Complexed with AdoHcy and Histamine"
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