Application | Comment | Organism |
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agriculture | expression of the caffeine biosynthesis enzymes in transgenic crop plants may protect against the crop damaging larvae of pests | Coffea arabica |
Cloned (Comment) | Organism |
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isozyme MXMT1, functional expression in transgenic Nicotiana tabacum plant leaves | Coffea arabica |
Protein Variants | Comment | Organism |
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additional information | transgenic Nicotiana tabacum plant leaves expressing all three enzymes required for the biosynthesis of caffeine are no longer eaten by the tobacco cutworm caterpillars, Spodoptera litura, overview | Coffea arabica |
Natural Substrates | Organism | Comment (Nat. Sub.) | Natural Products | Comment (Nat. Pro.) | Rev. | Reac. |
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S-adenosyl-L-methionine + 7-methylxanthine | Coffea arabica | - |
S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine + 3,7-dimethylxanthine | i.e. theobromine | ir | |
S-adenosyl-L-methionine + paraxanthine | Coffea arabica | - |
S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine + 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine | i.e. caffeine | ir |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Coffea arabica | Q9AVJ9 | isozyme MXMT1; isozyme MXMT1 | - |
Substrates | Comment Substrates | Organism | Products | Comment (Products) | Rev. | Reac. |
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S-adenosyl-L-methionine + 7-methylxanthine | - |
Coffea arabica | S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine + 3,7-dimethylxanthine | i.e. theobromine | ir | |
S-adenosyl-L-methionine + paraxanthine | - |
Coffea arabica | S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine + 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine | i.e. caffeine | ir |
Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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MXMT1 | - |
Coffea arabica |