Theobroma cacao caffeine synthesis (Theobroma cacao)

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Description

Theobroma cacao caffeine synthesis

This is the caffeine synthesis pathway for Theobroma cacao, but since Theobroma cacao is not listed in the organism field, it is registered under Arabidopsis thaliana. [Convergent Biochemical Pathways for Xanthine Alkaloid Production in Plants Evolved from Ancestral Enzymes with Different Catalytic Properties](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8233510/)

[Convergent evolution of caffeine in plants by co-option of exapted ancestral enzymes](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5035902/)

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Bibliography

  1. Huang R, O'Donnell AJ, Barboline JJ, Barkman TJ; ''Convergent evolution of caffeine in plants by co-option of exapted ancestral enzymes.''; Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016 PubMed Europe PMC Scholia
  2. O'Donnell AJ, Huang R, Barboline JJ, Barkman TJ; ''Convergent Biochemical Pathways for Xanthine Alkaloid Production in Plants Evolved from Ancestral Enzymes with Different Catalytic Properties.''; Mol Biol Evol, 2021 PubMed Europe PMC Scholia

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NameTypeDatabase referenceComment
3-methylxanthineMetabolite
TcCS1GeneProduct
TcCS2GeneProduct
TheobromineMetabolite
XanthinMetabolite
caffeineMetabolite

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