Gene Details:

  • Gene ID:
  • Gene Symbol: CsAlaDC
  • Gene Name: Alanine decarboxylase
  • Genome:
  • Species: Camellia sinensis

Functional Descriptions:

  • Comparing to CsAlaDC, its ancestral enzyme CsSDC exhibited a higher specific activity and a better thermal and pH stability, indicating that CsSDC acquired the optimized function after a longer evolutionary period. The biochemical properties of CsAlaDC might offer reference for theanine industrial production.
  • CsAlaDC and CsTSI work coordinately to determine theanine biosynthesis in tea plants (Camellia sinensis L.) and confer high levels of theanine accumulation in a non-tea plant.
  • CsAlaDC expression was highly correlated with ethylamine and theanine contents in different tea plant cultivars and conferred a high level of theanine accumulation when co-expressed with CsTSI in Nicotiana benthamiana.
  • CsAlaDC works coordinately with CsTSI in determining the unique high theanine accumulation in the roots of tea plants.

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Sequences:

cDNA Sequence
CDS Sequence
Protein Sequence