• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.63 no.4
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• pp.319-325
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• 2020

The liquids of Lycopersicon esculentum were extracted with 70% aqueous MeOH and the concentrates were partitioned into EtOAc, n-BuOH, and H2O fractions. The repeated silica gel and octadecyl silica gel column chromatographies for the EtOAc fraction, whose activity was confirmed, led to isolation of one flavonol compound. The chemical structures of the compound were determined as quercetin (1) based on spectroscopic analyses including nuclear magnetic resornance, infrarad spectroscopy, and mass spectroscopy. Through this study, the antioxidant efficacy was confirmed by demonstrating that the L. esculentum fraction showing an increase in glutathione mean (GM) and a decrease in glutathione heterogeneity (GH) uniformly raises the intracellular glutathione (GSH) level.