Theobroma cacao caffeine synthesis (Theobroma cacao)
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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/)Quality Tags
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Bibliography
- 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
- 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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Name | Type | Database reference | Comment |
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3-methylxanthine | Metabolite | ||
TcCS1 | GeneProduct | ||
TcCS2 | GeneProduct | ||
Theobromine | Metabolite | ||
Xanthin | Metabolite | ||
caffeine | Metabolite |
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