Infrared predissociation spectroscopy of the trimethylamine dimer cation generated by the vacuum-ultraviolet photoionization is isomer-selectively carried out by monitoring two main fragment channels, protonated trimethylamine and the trimethylamine monomer cation. The spectral carriers monitored by these two channels are assigned to different isomers of the trimethylamine dimer cation. One is ...

A rapid, sensitive, low-cost device to detect trimethylamine was presented in thispaper. The preparation of water soluble polyaniline was firstly studied. Then the polyanilinewas characterized via Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), UV-visiblespectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Based on the water solublepolyaniline film, a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensor fo...

Norris and Benoit (1) provided ‘good evidence that injected trimethylamine is converted in the rat to its N-oxide and excreted in the urine. Other mammals have been shown to have the ability to effect the same reaction (2, 3). In a preliminary communication (4), we have reported that hog liver microsomes will catalyze the oxidation of trimethylamine in vitro. The additional requirement for redu...

INTRODUCTION Trimethylaminuria is a rare inherited disorder due to decreased metabolism of dietary-derived trimethylamine by flavin-containing monooxygenase 3. Several single nucleotide polymorphisms of the flavin-containing monooxygenase 3 gene have been described and result in an enzyme with decreased or abolished functional activity for trimethylamine N-oxygenation thus leading to trimethyla...

In mice, trace amine-associated receptors (TAARs) are interspersed in the olfactory epithelium and constitute a chemosensory subsystem that is highly specific for detecting volatile amines. Humans possess six putative functional TAAR genes. Human TAAR5 (hTAAR5) is highly expressed in the olfactory mucosa and was shown to be specifically activated by trimethylamine. In this study, we were challe...

Recent evidence from isotope studies supports the view that catalysis by trimethylamine dehydrogenase (TMADH) proceeds from a Michaelis complex involving trimethylamine base and not, as thought previously, trimethylammonium cation. In native TMADH reduction of the flavin by substrate (perdeuterated trimethylamine) is influenced by two ionizations in the Michaelis complex with pK(a) values of 6....

The effects of trimethylamine and ammonia on the buffering capacity of fish muscle and the change in the capacity during degradation were studied. The results obtained were as follows: 1) Trimethylamine and ammonia increased the buffering capacity on alkali side above pH 8 and 6 respectively. The latter was, although the effect was slight at lower pH range, the higher the pH the more effective ...

Sensitive detection of trimethylamine both in aqueous and gaseous phases has been accomplished using an inexpensive colorimetric sensor array. Distinctive color change patterns provide facile discrimination over a wide range of concentrations for trimethylamine with >99% accuracy of classification. Calculated limits of detection are well below the diagnostically significant concentration for tr...

The isolation and partial characterization of a flavoprotein which functions as the electron acceptor of trimethylamine dehydrogenase (EC 1.5.99.7) from a methylotrophic bacterium is described. It has a molecular weight of 77,000 and is composed of two dissimilar subunits. All preparations examined contained only 1 mol of FAD/m01 of the flavoprotein. Trimethylamine dehydrogenase, in the presenc...