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Quarantine ΔMass ✓ Demethylation

ODMT

Glycyrrhiza glabra

Fabaceae

Substrate reaction site Product reaction site MCS substructure diff highlighting · RDKit atom mapping
Substrate
medicarpin
PubChem ↗ COC1=CC2=C(C=C1)[C@@H]3COC4=C([C@@H]3O2)C=CC(=C4)O
ODMT
ΔMass: -14.0157 Da demethylation(-14.0157)
Product
demethylmedicarpin
PubChem ↗ C1[C@@H]2[C@H](C3=C(O1)C=C(C=C3)O)OC4=C2C=CC(=C4)O

Evidence trail

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Source text excerpt ation; ation; PMID 41782076, in vitro assay with recombinant GgODMT, O-demethylation of 4'-OCH3 to 4'-OH.

Reaction & quality gates

Mechanism
Demethylation (-14.01 Da)
Evidence type
In vitro
Confidence
High
Data tier
Quarantine
non-CYP auxiliary enzyme (pathway partner, not cytochrome P450)
Substrate class
Other
Product class
Other

Literature & public identifiers

PubMed
PMID:41782076 ↗
DOI
10.1186/s43897-025-00202-x ↗
UniProt
GenBank
NCBI TaxID
49827 ↗

Seizing the key nodes in glabridin biosynthesis network: identification of enzymes for producing licorice hairy roots with high levels of glabridin.