An onion enzyme that makes the eyes water

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6908, 2002, Pages 685-

  Imai, S ^a   Tsuge, N ^a   Tomotake, M ^a   Nagatome, Y ^a   Sawada, H ^a   Nagata, T ^b   Kumagai, H ^c  

^a House Foods Corporation   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; FLAVORS;

TEARS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROPANTHIAL SULFUR OXIDE; SULFENIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 1 PROPENYLCYSTEINE SULFOXIDE; 1-PROPENYLCYSTEINE SULFOXIDE; ALLIIN LYASE; BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; BIS(1 PROPENYL)THIOSULFINATE; BIS(1-PROPENYL)THIOSULFINATE; CYSTEINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; LYASE; SULFINIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SULFOXIDE;

BIOLOGY; VEGETABLE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FLAVOR; LACRIMATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONION; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; LACRIMAL FLUID; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONIONS; SULFINIC ACIDS; SULFOXIDES; TEARS;

EID: 0037126330     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/419685a     Document Type: Article

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