The purpose of the present invention is to provide a novel method which makes it possible to produce a methyl compound by using a general organic
raw material such as
glycine,
serine,
formic acid,
methanol, or glucose to efficiently regenerate SAM and promote a
methylation reaction. The present invention provides a method for producing a methyl compound using a
cell in which the activity or expression of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM)-dependent
methyltransferase and S-ribosylhomocysteine
lyase (LuxS) is increased and which has been modified so as to reduce enzymatic activity of at least one selected from the group consisting of 5'-
nucleotidase (UshA, UmpG, and / or UmpH), AMP nucleosidase (Amn and / or PpnN), adenine deaminase (AdeD), adenylate
cyclase (CyaA), and S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (SpeD).