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This article explains the extraction of tyrosinase, the key compound for L-DOPA production, from Dioscorea alata, commonly called as yam and its identification using Homology Driven Proteomics Approach
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Why is it important?
There are only a very few proteins have been isolated from this plant Dioscorea alata. The database contains only 76 entries. And tyrosinase being a commercially important enzyme and its presence on this plant was much important in Pharmaceutical industries for L-DOPA production.
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This page is a summary of: Identification of Tyrosinase from Dioscorea alata Tuber Extract by Homology Driven Proteomics Approach, Current Proteomics, April 2016, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1570164613666160407120320.
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