... discriminatingbetween methylamine and ammonia are poorly under-stood. N-Methyl amino acids are structurally similarto opines such as nopaline, octopine, lysopine, and histopine, which are N-substituted ... naturally as components of several depsipeptides, including cyclosporin A [1],vancomycin, destruxins [2], didemnins [3], dolastatin[4], and enniatin [5], as well as a calpain inhibitor fromStreptomyces ... relative to methylamine) were found withethylenediamine, hydroxylamine, isopropylamine, n-butylamine, n-amylamine, n-hexylamine, 1,6-diamino-hexane, and spermidine. Interestingly, the enzyme...