Open AccessStudies on enzyme action. XVIII.—Enzymes of the emulsin type. (III) Linase and other enzymes in linaceæ
Publication year - 1912
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series b, containing papers of a biological character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9185
pISSN - 0950-1193
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.1912.0060
Subject(s) - enzyme , glucoside , phaseolus , botany , biology , chemistry , biochemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
In No. XIII of these studies, communicated to the Society early in 1910, a long series of observations was recorded from which the conclusion was deduced that the glucoside extracted from the seeds of the wild variety of Phaseolus lunatus and the enzyme associated with the glucoside both belong to theβ -series, a conclusion not in harmony with that arrived at previously by Dunstan, Henry and Auld. The glucoside termed by Dunstan and HenryPhaseolunatin was first isolated from young flax plants in 1891 by Jorissen and Hairs, by whom it was namedLinamarin . Jorissen had previously found that “emulsin” had no action on the cyanophoric constituent of flax, though the glucoside was readily attacked by the enzyme occurring in the seed.