Journal of agricultural and food chemistry

A tissue homogenate method to prepare gram-scale Allium thiosulfinates and their disulfide conjugates with cysteine and glutathione

G Zhang, KL Parkin

Index: Zhang, Guodong; Parkin, Kirk L. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2013 , vol. 61, # 12 p. 3030 - 3038

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Abstract

The health benefits of Allium vegetables are widely attributed to the enzyme-derived organosulfur compounds called thiosulfinates (TS). However, the lack of a suitable method to prepare TS in good yields has hampered the evaluation of their biological activities. This paper describe a simple enzymatic method using Allium tissue homogenates as a reaction system to prepare gram-scale TS, including those enriched in 1-propenyl groups, which ...