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Guanine deaminase provides evidence of the increased caffeine content during the piling process of pu'erh tea
- Source :
- RSC advances. 9(62)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Wet piling is a key process for producing pu'erh tea because various components change under the action of microorganisms. Among these components, caffeine content is increased. Evidence has indicated a salvage pathway for caffeine biosynthesis in microbes, in which xanthine is methylated in the order of N-3 → N-1 → N-7. In addition, guanine can be used to synthesize xanthine through guanine deaminase (EC: 3.5.4.3). In this study, we investigated the variation in caffeine content during piling fermentation with supplementary guanine, 15N-labeled guanine and xanthine. We cloned the guanine deaminase gene (GUD1) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (one dominant strain in piling fermentation). The results revealed that [15N]xanthine could be synthesized from [15N]guanine, and [15N]caffeine was also detected during piling with supplementary [15N]xanthine. Furthermore, ScGUD1 could catalyze the conversion of guanine to xanthine, which is likely to be methylated for caffeine synthesis under microorganism action. The obtained results revealed the mechanism underlying the increased caffeine content during piling of pu'erh tea.
- Subjects :
- biology
Guanine
General Chemical Engineering
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
02 engineering and technology
General Chemistry
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Xanthine
biology.organism_classification
01 natural sciences
0104 chemical sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
Guanine deaminase
chemistry
Biochemistry
Biosynthesis
Fermentation
0210 nano-technology
Caffeine
Nucleotide salvage
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20462069
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 62
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- RSC advances
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....abc3b0af69112f3f5721199ae5cf2907