A specialized flavone biosynthetic pathway has evolved in the medicinal plant, Scutellaria baicalensis

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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Main Authors: Zhao, Q., Zhang, Y., Wang, G., Hill, L., Chen, X.-Y., Xue, H., Martin, C., Weng, Jing-Ke
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105844

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