Meanings
nounaloesaponarin (plural aloesaponarins)
plural aloesaponarins
- chemistryAny of a small group of anthraquinone derivatives that occur in the roots of Aloe saponaria
It could be converted into two shunt products (DMAC 5 and aloesaponarin II 6 ) in the actVI-ORF1-deficient mutant strain.
2015 July 11, “Functional Characterization of a Ketoreductase-Encoding Gene med -ORF12 Involved in the Formation of a Stereospecific Pyran Ring during the Biosynthesis of an Antitumor Antibiotic Medermycin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin
Aloe saponaria + -in
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