Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 105

by A. Douglas Kinghorn (Editor), Heinz Falk (Editor), Simon Gibbons (Editor)

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  2017

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  The first contribution reviews the occurrence of xanthine alkaloids in the plant kingdom and the elucidation of the caffeine biosynthesis pathway, providing details of the N-methyltransferases, belonging to the motif B' methyltransferase family which catalyze three steps in the four step pathway leading from xanthosine to caffeine.