Caffeine dehydrogenase

Caffeine dehydrogenase
Identifiers
EC number 1.17.5.2
Databases
IntEnz IntEnz view
BRENDA BRENDA entry
ExPASy NiceZyme view
KEGG KEGG entry
MetaCyc metabolic pathway
PRIAM profile
PDB structures RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum

Caffeine dehydrogenase (EC 1.17.5.2) is an enzyme with systematic name caffeine:ubiquinone oxidoreductase.[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

caffeine + ubiquinone (Q0 ox) + H2O 1,3,7-trimethylurate + ubiquinol (Q0 red)

Caffeine dehydrogenase is isolated from the soil bacterium Pseudomonas sp. CBB1.

References

  1. Yu, C.L.; Kale, Y.; Gopishetty, S.; Louie, T.M.; Subramanian, M. (2008). "A novel caffeine dehydrogenase in Pseudomonas sp. strain CBB1 oxidizes caffeine to trimethyluric acid". J. Bacteriol. 190: 772–776. doi:10.1128/jb.01390-07. PMC 2223706. PMID 17981969.
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