A specialized flavone biosynthetic pathway has evolved in the medicinal plant, Scutellaria baicalensis
Wogonin and baicalein are bioactive flavones in the popular Chinese herbal remedy Huang-Qin (Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi). These specialized flavones lack a 4′-hydroxyl group on the B ring (4′-deoxyflavones) and induce apoptosis in a wide spectrum of human tumor cells in vitro and inhibit tumor g...
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| Language: | en_US |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105844 |