Determination of a novel bitter amino acid, pulcherrimine, in the gonad of the green sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus

Fisheries Science

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 341-345

  Murata, Yuko ^c   Sata, Noriko U ^a,c   Yokoyama, Masahito ^b,c   Kuwahara, Ryuji ^c   Kaneniwa, Masaki ^c   Oohara, Ichiro ^c  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Bitterness; Dimethylaminoazobenzenesulfonyl chloride; Gonad; Green sea urchin; Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus; Ovary; Testis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035034274     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1444-2906.2001.00234.x     Document Type: Article

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