Figure 2.

Metabolic reactions involved in the breakdown of DMSP into either dimethyl sulfide and acrylate, or methanethiol and acetaldehyde, and the genes encoding the enzymes which perform these reactions. Green arrows indicate reactions unique to this pathway according to the MetaCyc database 17. Bold red text denotes reaction substrates and products and yellow text denotes the enzyme involved in this reaction in strain SMS3. The purple text denotes the locus tag of the gene encoding the enzyme, and blue text denotes the EC number of the enzyme(s) required to perform each reaction. Figure adapted from output generated by Pathway Tools version 21.0 13.