The chemical diversity and distribution of glucosinolates and isothiocyanates among plants
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...IAA] is of particular interest in plants like arabidopsis that make indolic glucosinolate secondary metabolites (Fahey et al., 2001), because IAOx is the branch-point between indole-3-methylglucosinolate and IAA biosynthesis (Fig....
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...The R groups of most glucosinolates are extensively modified from these precursor amino acids, with methionine undergoing an especially wide range of transformations (49)....
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...The approximately 120 described glucosinolates share a chemical structure consisting of a β-D-glucopyranose residue linked via a sulfur atom to a (Z )-N-hydroximinosulfate ester, plus a variable R group (Figure 1) derived from one of eight amino acids (49)....
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...For each category of glucosinolate, a different range of chain lengths is known to occur naturally (49)....
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...Up to nine cycles are known to occur in plants (49)....
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...Broccoli sprouts are rich in glucosinolate that is hydrolyzed by gut microflora or by myrosinase in the cruciferous vegetables to sulforaphane [1-isothiocyanato-4-(methylsulfinyl)-butane] (Fahey et al. 2001)....
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