The oxidation of acetylpolyamines by cell wall polyamine oxidase from maize shoots was investigated. The purified enzyme catalysed the oxidation of N1-acetylspermine, N1- acetylspermidine, and N8-acetylspermidine at the same optimal pH (6.5), but with lower relative velocities and higher Km than those found for spermine and spermidine oxidation. The enzyme cleaved N1-acetylspermine and N8-acetylspermidine, at the same positions ...
[Verspui, Goeran; Elbertse, Guido; Sheldon, Frank A.; Hacking, Michiel A. P. J.; Sheldon, Roger A. Chemical Communications, 2000 , # 15 p. 1363 - 1364]
