N-methyltyramine
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'''N-Methyltyramine (NMT), also known as 4-hydroxy-N-methylphenethylamine', is a human trace amine and natural phenethylamine alkaloid found in a variety of plants. As the name implies, it is the N-methyl analog of tyramine, which is a well-known biogenic trace amine with which NMT shares many pharmacological properties. Biosynthetically, NMT is produced by the N-methylation of tyramine via the action of the enzyme phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase in humans and tyramine N''-methyltransferase in plants.
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- Methyl-4-tyramine; 4-Hydroxy-N-methylphenethylamine; p-(2-Methylaminoethyl)phenol
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- 4-[2-(methylamino)ethyl]phenol
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'''N-Methyltyramine (NMT), also known as 4-hydroxy-N-methylphenethylamine', is a human trace amine and natural phenethylamine alkaloid found in a variety of plants. As the name implies, it is the N-methyl analog of tyramine, which is a well-known biogenic trace amine with which NMT shares many pharmacological properties. Biosynthetically, NMT is produced by the N-methylation of tyramine via the action of the enzyme phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase in humans and tyramine N-methyltransferase in plants.
==Occurrence== N-methyltyramine seems to be quite widely distributed in plants.
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