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Article: Reports from P. Bandyopadhyay et al highlight recent research in agricultural and food chemistry.
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- Agriculture Week
- Article date:
- November 19, 2009
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According to recent research published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, "Several novel picolyl alkyl amine derivatives (A-L) were synthesized, and the influence of hydrophobicity and substitution on the inhibition of mushroom tyrosinase toward both monophenolase and diphenolase activities are described. alpha-, beta-, and gamma-picolyl amines are neither the substrates nor the inhibitors; however, the inhibition is induced by the incorporation of an alkyl chain."
"The inhibition was strongly dependent on the substitution on a pyridine ring, and the inhibition follows the trend of alpha-picolyl alkyl amines (A, D, G)
The researchers concluded: ...