2.5.1.44 expressed in Escherichia coli. The host Escherichia coli cells without the recombinant homospermidine synthase orthologue accumulate putrescine, cadaverine and spermidine and expression of each the homospermidine syntase orthologue in Escherichia coli results in accumulation of homospermidine in the host cells 704662 2.5.1.44 expression as an untagged protein in Escherichia coli BL21 751585 2.5.1.44 gene hss 739378 2.5.1.44 overexpressed in Escherichia coli BL21, which originally does not possess HSS activity. 40-50% of the soluble protein in crude extracts are detected as homospermidine synthase 288701