TMA, TMAO and diseases
Microbial N-methylated compounds conversion...
In the gut, some gut microbes (their identity being largely unknown in 2016) are able to convert the N-methyl compounds into the gut compound TMA (trimethylamine). TMA is not provided by our diet / it is not ingested. In red are indicated the name of bacterial genes which encode the enzymatic activity capable of conversion into TMA (some only very recently uncovered).