Issue 9, 2003
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Efficient radical scavenging ability of artepillin C, a major component of Brazilian propolis, and the mechanism

Ikuo Nakanishi,*ab   Yoshihiro Uto,c   Kei Ohkubo,b   Kentaro Miyazaki,de   Haruko Yakumaru,a   Shiro Urano,e   Haruhiro Okuda,d   Jun-Ichi Ueda,a   Toshihiko Ozawa,a   Kiyoshi Fukuhara,d   Shunichi Fukuzumi,*b   Hideko Nagasawa,c   Hitoshi Horic  and  Nobuo Ikota*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Redox Regulation Research Group, Research Center for Radiation Safety, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
E-mail: nakanis@nirs.go.jp
Fax: +81-43-255-6819
Tel: +81-43-206-3131

b Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
E-mail: fukuzumi@chem.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
Fax: +81-6-6879-7370
Tel: +81-6-6879-7368

c Department of Biological Science & Technology, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokushima, 2-1 Minamijosanjima-cho, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan

d Division of Organic Chemistry, National Institute of Health Sciences, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan

e Department of Applied Chemistry, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8548, Japan

Abstract

Hydrogen transfer from artepillin C to cumylperoxyl radical proceeds via one-step hydrogen atom transfer rather than via electron transfer, the rate constant of which is comparable to that of (+)-catechin, indicating that artepillin C can act as an efficient antioxidant.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B302098C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Feb 2003
Accepted
20 Mar 2003
First published
03 Apr 2003

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2003,1, 1452-1454

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Efficient radical scavenging ability of artepillin C, a major component of Brazilian propolis, and the mechanism

I. Nakanishi, Y. Uto, K. Ohkubo, K. Miyazaki, H. Yakumaru, S. Urano, H. Okuda, J. Ueda, T. Ozawa, K. Fukuhara, S. Fukuzumi, H. Nagasawa, H. Hori and N. Ikota, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2003, 1, 1452 DOI: 10.1039/B302098C

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