Isolation of a new dual-functional caffeine synthase gene encoding an enzyme for the conversion of 7-methylxanthine to caffeine from coffee (Coffea arabica L.)

FEBS Letters

Volumn 534, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 75-81

  Mizuno, Kouichi ^a,c   Okuda, Akira ^a   Kato, Misako ^b   Yoneyama, Naho ^b   Tanaka, Hiromi ^a   Ashihara, Hiroshi ^b   Fujimura, Tatsuhito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

7 Methylxanthine; Caffeine; Coffee; N Methyltransferase; S adenosyl L methionine; Theobromine

Indexed keywords

7 METHYLXANTHINE; CAFFEINE; CAFFEINE SYNTHASE; ISOENZYME; THEOBROMINE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; XANTHINE DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COFFEE; ENDOSPERM; ENZYME ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

COFFEA; COFFEA ARABICA;

EID: 0037448453     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(02)03781-X     Document Type: Article

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