Evidence Hub

Flavonoid oxidation kinetics in aqueous and aqueous organic media in the presence of peroxidase, tyrosynase, and hemoglobin

Barsukova ME, Tokareva AI, Buslova TS, Malinina LI, Veselova IA, Shekhovtsova TN

Prikladnaia biokhimiia i mikrobiologiia, 2017

Abstract

The kinetics of oxidation reactions of flavonoids, quercetin, dihydroquercetin, and epicatechin has been studied in the presence of biocatalysts of different natures: horseradish peroxidase, mushroom tyrosinase, and hemoglobin from bull blood. Comparison of the kinetic parameters of the oxidation reaction showed that peroxidase appeared to be the most effective biocatalyst in these processes. The specificity of the enzyme for quercetin increased with increasing the polarity of the solvent in a series of ethanol–acetonitrile–dimethyl sulfoxide.

Read the paper

Related studies

Go deeper in Evidence Hub

Evidence Hub adds a study data sheet (design, sample size, evidence level, key numbers), an AI summary and a chat grounded in the paper's text.

Open this study Sign up free