Literature DB >> 20859792

Distribution, biosynthesis and catabolism of methylxanthines in plants.

Hiroshi Ashihara1, Misako Kato, Alan Crozier.   

Abstract

Methylxanthines and methyluric acids are purine alkaloids that are synthesized in quantity in a limited number of plant species, including tea, coffee and cacao. This review summarizes the pathways, enzymes and related genes of caffeine biosynthesis. The main biosynthetic pathway is a sequence consisting of xanthosine → 7-methylxanthosine → 7-methylxanthine → theobromine → caffeine. Catabolism of caffeine starts with its conversion to theophylline. Typically, this reaction is very slow in caffeine-accumulating plants. Finally, the ecological roles of caffeine and the production of decaffeinated coffee plants are discussed.

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Year:  2011        PMID： 20859792     DOI： 10.1007/978-3-642-13443-2_2

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Handb Exp Pharmacol        ISSN： 0171-2004


  12 in total

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Authors:  Justyna B Startek; Thomas Voets; Karel Talavera
Journal:  Pflugers Arch       Date:  2018-09-18       Impact factor: 3.657

2.  Assessment of the Drug-Drug Interaction Potential Between Theacrine and Caffeine in Humans.

Authors:  Hui He; Dejian Ma; Laura Brooks Crone; Matthew Butawan; Bernd Meibohm; Richard J Bloomer; Charles R Yates
Journal:  J Caffeine Res       Date:  2017-09-01

3.  Light-Inducible MiR163 Targets PXMT1 Transcripts to Promote Seed Germination and Primary Root Elongation in Arabidopsis.

Authors:  Pil Joong Chung; Bong Soo Park; Huan Wang; Jun Liu; In-Cheol Jang; Nam-Hai Chua
Journal:  Plant Physiol       Date:  2016-01-14       Impact factor: 8.340

4.  Gut microbiota mediate caffeine detoxification in the primary insect pest of coffee.

Authors:  Javier A Ceja-Navarro; Fernando E Vega; Ulas Karaoz; Zhao Hao; Stefan Jenkins; Hsiao Chien Lim; Petr Kosina; Francisco Infante; Trent R Northen; Eoin L Brodie
Journal:  Nat Commun       Date:  2015-07-14       Impact factor: 14.919

5.  De novo transcriptome assembly of the wild relative of tea tree (Camellia taliensis) and comparative analysis with tea transcriptome identified putative genes associated with tea quality and stress response.

Authors:  Hai-Bin Zhang; En-Hua Xia; Hui Huang; Jian-Jun Jiang; Ben-Ying Liu; Li-Zhi Gao
Journal:  BMC Genomics       Date:  2015-04-15       Impact factor: 3.969

Review 6.  Cocoa bioactive compounds: significance and potential for the maintenance of skin health.

Authors:  Giovanni Scapagnini; Sergio Davinelli; Laura Di Renzo; Antonino De Lorenzo; Hector Hugo Olarte; Giuseppe Micali; Arrigo F Cicero; Salvador Gonzalez
Journal:  Nutrients       Date:  2014-08-11       Impact factor: 5.717

7.  A 90-Day Oral Toxicological Evaluation of the Methylurate Purine Alkaloid Theacrine.

Authors:  Amy Clewell; Gábor Hirka; Róbert Glávits; Philip A Palmer; John R Endres; Timothy S Murbach; Tennille Marx; Ilona Pasics Szakonyiné
Journal:  J Toxicol       Date:  2016-08-22

8.  Spatial changes in leaf biochemical profile of two tea cultivars following cold storage under two different vapour pressure deficit (VPD) conditions.

Authors:  Emma R Collings; M Carmen Alamar; Sally Redfern; Katherine Cools; Leon A Terry
Journal:  Food Chem       Date:  2018-10-22       Impact factor: 7.514

9.  Use of a draft genome of coffee (Coffea arabica) to identify SNPs associated with caffeine content.

Authors:  Hue T M Tran; Thiruvarangan Ramaraj; Agnelo Furtado; Leonard Slade Lee; Robert J Henry
Journal:  Plant Biotechnol J       Date:  2018-04-13       Impact factor: 9.803

10.  Revealing oral microbiota composition and functionality associated with heavy cigarette smoking.

Authors:  Mohammad Tahseen Al Bataineh; Nihar Ranjan Dash; Mohammed Elkhazendar; Dua'a Mohammad Hasan Alnusairat; Islam Mohammad Ismail Darwish; Mohamed Saleh Al-Hajjaj; Qutayba Hamid
Journal:  J Transl Med       Date:  2020-11-10       Impact factor: 5.531
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