Masoomeh Bagheri-Kalmarzi

[ 1 ] - Effect of vanillin and its acid and alcohol derivatives on the diphenolase activity of mushroom tyrosinase

For the first time in the present study the effects of vanillin, vanillyl alcohol, vanillic acid, as well as the newly synthesized vanillin derivative, bis-vanillin, were investigated on the oxidation of dopamine hydrochloride by mushroom tyrosinase. Among them, vanillin and bis-vanillin act as activators, while vanillyl alcohol and vanillic acid exhibited inhibitory effects, the IC50 values be...