Literature summary for 2.1.1.158 extracted from

Deng, W.; Li, Y.; Ogita, S.; Ashihara, H.
Fine control of caffeine biosynthesis in tissue cultures of Camellia sinensis (2008), Phytochem. Lett., 1, 195-198.

No PubMed abstract available

Organism

Organism	UniProt	Comment	Textmining
Camellia sinensis	-	-	-

General Information	Comment	Organism
metabolism	methylation of xanthosine by 7-methylxanthosine synthase is the most plausible rate-limiting step of caffeine biosynthesis, the supply of non-methylated purine precursors or availability of S-adenosyl-L-methionine are not the principal controlling factors of caffeine biosynthesis	Camellia sinensis

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