The discovery, there are bacteria that live on Caffeine

You are strongly dependent on the caffeine? Apparently you have not nothing compared to Pseudomonas putida CBB5, a newly discovered bacterium. These bacteria live off caffeine and now researchers managed to find out how they can do that.
"As we all know, caffeine is a mixture of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. The bacteria use specialized enzymes that can break the caffeine to carbon dioxide and ammonia, "said Ryan Summers, researchers from the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering University of Iowa, as quoted from Scientific American, May 25, 2011.
Summers and his colleagues found the bacteria caffeine is in a flower garden on their campus at the University of Iowa. Although the location of the discovery is not a common location to find new species, but these findings are not surprising.
"There is a lot of caffeine in this area and it is not surprising if there are bacteria capable of consuming caffeine molecules for growth and reproduction," said Summers.
Findings presented at the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in New Orleans was a first, showing how the enzymes and genes used by bacteria in order to live with caffeine. "Never found previously that there are species of microbes that consume caffeine," he said.
After isolating the gene that is able to process caffeine, researchers then put it in series E. coli will produce enzymes that can digest caffeine (N-demethylase and NDMA named NdmB).
Summers and his colleagues noted that this enzyme might be useful to develop a new treatment method for asthma or increase blood circulation.
"Enzymes produced by these bacteria can also be used to help overcome the effects of excessive caffeine caused by the industry when producing tea and decaffeinated coffee," said Summers.