Plant Cell Rep. 1981 Aug;1(1):10-3. doi: 10.1007/BF00267647.
Plant cell reports
M F Roberts
PMID: 24258745 DOI: 10.1007/BF00267647
Further studies of the transaminase responsible for the first committed step in alkaloid formation in Conium maculatum have shown the L-alanine: 5-ketooctanal transaminase to occur in both the mitochondria and chloroplast. Experiments suggest that these enzymes are the isoenzymes Transaminase A and B respectively previously isolated by the author. It is suggested that the chloroplast enzyme is normally responsible for alkaloid production.