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NATURAL PRODUCT RESEARCH
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 256-263Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14786411003754256
Keywords
red onion; dried skin; quercetin 4'-O--D-glucopyranoside; anti-tyrosinase
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
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In an effort to find a new whitening agent, we focused our attention on Allium cepa (red onion). Based on biologically guided fractionation using mushroom tyrosinase, quercetin 4'-O--D-glucopyranoside was isolated from the dried skin of A. cepa. Quercetin 4'-O--D-glucopyranoside showed tyrosinase inhibitory activity using L-tyrosine or L-DOPA as a substrate, with IC50 values of 4.3 and 52.7 mu M, respectively. Based on the results obtained, the dried skin of red onion possesses ingredients with potential for skin-whitening cosmetics with anti-tyrosinase activity.
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