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Improvement of the pharmacological activity of menthol via enzymatic β-anomer-selective glycosylation
Choi, Ha-Young,Kim, Bo-Min,Morgan, Abubaker M. A.,Kim, Joong Su,Kim, Won-Gon
, (2017)
Menthol has a considerable cooling effect, but the use range of menthol is limited because of its extremely low solubility in water and inherent flavor. (?)-Menthol β-glucoside was determined to be more soluble in water (>27 times) than (?)-menthol α-glucoside; hence, β-anomer-selective glucosylation of menthol is necessary. The in vitro glycosylation of (?)-menthol by uridine diphosphate glycosyltransferase (BLC) from Bacillus licheniformis generated (?)-menthol β-glucoside and new (?)-menthol β-galactoside and (?)-menthol N-acetylglucosamine. The maximum conversion rate of menthol to (?)-menthol β-d-glucoside by BLC was found to be 58.9%. Importantly, (?)-menthol β-d-glucoside had a higher cooling effect and no flavor compared with menthol. In addition, (?)-menthol β-d-glucoside was determined to be a non-sensitizer in a skin allergy test in the human cell line activation test, whereas menthol was a sensitizer.
