Reaction: putrescine + pyruvate = 4-aminobutanal + alanine
Other name(s): spuC (gene name)
Systematic name: putrescine:pyruvate aminotransferase
Comments: A pyridoxal 5'-phosphate protein. The enzyme, studied in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, participates in a putrescine degradation pathway. cf. EC 2.6.1.82, putrescine—2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase.
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References:
1. Lu, C.D., Itoh, Y., Nakada, Y. and Jiang, Y. Functional analysis and regulation of the divergent spuABCDEFGH-spuI operons for polyamine uptake and utilization in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. J. Bacteriol. 184 (2002) 3765-3773. [PMID: 12081945]