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    Myrosinase (EC 3.2.1.147, thioglucoside glucohydrolase, sinigrinase, and sinigrase) is a family of enzymes involved in plant defense against herbivores...
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  • The mustard oil bomb, formerly known as the glucosinolate–myrosinase complex, is a chemical herbivory defense system found in members of the Brassicaceae...
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    isothiocyanate group of organosulfur compounds. It is produced when the enzyme myrosinase transforms glucoraphanin, a glucosinolate, into sulforaphane upon damage...
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    "mustard oil") upon hydrolysis of the thioglucoside bond by the enzyme myrosinase. The semisystematic naming of glucosinolates consists of the chemical...
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    are also available. However, many of these products are produced from myrosinase-inactive sprout or seed extracts.[citation needed] It is difficult, if...
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    a grayish-white to powdery blue appearance. Cabbage aphids produce a myrosinase (beta-thioglucoside glucohydrolase) enzyme in head and thoracic muscles;...
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    vegetables. Glucoraphanin is converted to sulforaphane by the enzyme myrosinase. In plants, sulforaphane deters insect predators and acts as a selective...
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    chewed). Under these conditions, a chemical reaction between the enzyme myrosinase and a glucosinolate known as sinigrin from the seeds of black mustard...
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    mustard (Brassica juncea). When these mustard seeds are broken, the enzyme myrosinase is released and acts on a glucosinolate known as sinigrin to give allyl...
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    Purgatto E, et al. (2008). "Benzylglucosinolate, benzyl isothiocyanate, and myrosinase activity in papaya fruit during development and ripening". J Agric Food...
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    various chemical compounds produced by the plants, including glucosinolate, myrosinase, and isothiocyanate. They are sometimes grown as companion plants and...
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    compounds in the seed: the enzyme myrosinase and various glucosinolates such as sinigrin and sinalbin. The myrosinase enzyme turns the glucosinolates into...
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    sinigrin-containing plant tissue is crushed or otherwise damaged, the enzyme myrosinase degrades sinigrin to a mustard oil (allyl isothiocyanate), which is responsible...
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    allyl isothiocyanate. Upon crushing the flesh of horseradish, the enzyme myrosinase is released and acts on the glucosinolates sinigrin and gluconasturtiin...
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    affect cancer. Glucosinolates are hydrolyzed to isothiocyanates (ITCs) by myrosinase. ITCs are being investigated for their chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic...
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    Brassicaceae contain glucosinolates as well as myrosinases inside their cells. When the cell is damaged, the myrosinases hydrolise the glucosinolates, leading...
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    biosynthesis, PEITC is produced from gluconasturtiin by the action of the enzyme myrosinase. "Dictionary of Cancer Terms: PEITC". National Cancer Institute. Cheung...
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    characterized by the production of glucosinolates, and of the enzyme myrosinase, which acts on glucosinolates to release isothiocyanates. Sinigrin is...
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    white mustard. This compound is broken down as a mustard oil glycoside by myrosinase, releasing the isothiocyanate. The isothiocyanate further decomposes into...
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    sulfur-containing organic compounds); the hydrolysis reaction is catalyzed by myrosinase and occurs when the enzyme is released on cell rupture caused by maceration –...
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    to form the mustard oil 4-hydroxybenzyl isothiocyanate by the enzyme myrosinase. The less sharp taste of white mustard is because 4-hydroxybenzyl isothiocyanate...
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    responsible for its sharper taste. With regard to enzymes, the protease and myrosinase activities of the Gegeol radish are higher but the α-amylose activity...
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    by herbivores. Premier examples are substances activated by the enzyme myrosinase. This enzyme converts glucosinolates to various compounds that are toxic...
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  • recently shown to be thioglucoside glucohydrolase, a protein of the myrosinase family. Ricca's factors were originally considered to be hormones transported...
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  • chiefly wasabi. Like other isothiocyanates, it is produced when the enzyme myrosinase transforms the associated glucosinolate into 6-MITC upon cell injury....
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    cruciferous vegetables by myrosinase, an enzyme which hydrolyses glucosinolates to form nitriles and other products. Myrosinase is activated by l-ascorbic...
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    (EC 3.2.1.62), lactase (EC 3.2.1.108); beta-mannosidase (EC 3.2.1.25); myrosinase (EC 3.2.1.147). 6-phospho-beta-galactosidase InterPro: IPR005928 GBA3;...
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    flavour). When the leaves are chewed glucosinolates, through the enzyme myrosinase, are metabolized in isothiocyanates and indoles. One of Trotula's works...
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    effect of gluconasturtiin is due to its degradation by the plant enzyme myrosinase into phenethyl isothiocyanate, which is toxic to many organisms. Gluconasturtiin...
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    mustards, and woad. As for other glucosinolates, degradation by the enzyme myrosinase is expected to produce an isothiocyanate, indol-3-ylmethylisothiocyanate...
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