6-METHYLSULFINYLHEXYL ISOTHIOCYANATE AND ITS HOMOLOGS AS FOOD-ORIGINATED COMPOUNDS WITH ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST ESCHERICHIA-COLI ANDSTAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS

Authors
ONO H TESAKI S TANABE S WATANABE M
Citation
H. Ono et al., 6-METHYLSULFINYLHEXYL ISOTHIOCYANATE AND ITS HOMOLOGS AS FOOD-ORIGINATED COMPOUNDS WITH ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST ESCHERICHIA-COLI ANDSTAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS, Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, 62(2), 1998, pp. 363-365
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Biology,Agriculture,"Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology","Food Science & Tenology
Journal title
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry → ACNP
ISSN journal
09168451
Volume
62
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
363 - 365
Database
ISI
SICI code
0916-8451(1998)62:2<363:6IAIHA>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Cruciferae plants, banana and coriander each showed antibacterial acti vity. The highest activity among the foodstuffs tested was found in th e stems of wasabi. An ethereal extract from wasabi stems had potent an tibacterial activity and we isolated the active compound from the extr act. Instrumental analysis identified the compound as 6-methylsulfinyl hexyl isothiocyanate. Some homologues of 6-methylsulfinylhexyl isothio cyanate were also active against Escherichia coil and Staphylococcus a ureus.