deamination
Noun
Meaning
removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound
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A SAM-dependent N-methylation of putrescine gives the N-methylputrescine product, which then undergoes oxidative deamination by the action of diamine oxidase to yield the aminoaldehyde.
However, it is inherently unstable, and can change into uracil ( spontaneous deamination ).
This is because cytosine can deaminate spontaneously to produce uracil through hydrolytic deamination.
DNA becomes susceptible to deamination events when it is single stranded.
Hypoxanthine can bind to cytosine, and when the XC base pair is replicated, it becomes a GC (thus, an A → G base change). citation Over time, base changes in the DNA sequence can arise from deamination mutations.
In addition to the early microscopy experiments, this model is also supported by the amounts of deamination seen in cpDNA.