Regioselective formation of quercetin 5-O-glucoside from orally administered quercetin in the silkworm, Bombyx mori

Phytochemistry

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1141-1149

  Hirayama, Chikara ^a   Ono, Hiroshi ^b   Tamura, Yasumori ^a   Konno, Kotaro ^a   Nakamura, Masatoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Bombyx mori; Flavonoid; Flavonol; Glucosylation; Moraceae; Morus alba; Mulberry; Quercetin; Regioselectivity; Silkworm; UDP glucosyl transferase

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSIDE; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; QUERCETIN; QUERCETIN 5 O GLUCOSIDE; QUERCETIN 5-O-GLUCOSIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; LARVA; METABOLISM; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SILKWORM; STEREOISOMERISM; TIME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BOMBYX; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSIDES; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; LARVA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; QUERCETIN; STEREOISOMERISM; TIME FACTORS;

BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA; MORACEAE; MORUS (PLANT); MORUS ALBA;

EID: 39549114421     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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