Kimura Toshiyuki, Suzuki Masahiro, Takenaka Makiko, Yamagishi Kenji, Shinmoto Hiroshi
Laboratory of Post-harvest Crop Management, National Agricultural Research Center for Tohoku Region, 50 Harajukuminami, Arai, Fukushima-city, Fukushima, Fukushima 960-2156, Japan.
Phytochemistry. 2004 Feb;65(4):423-6. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2003.10.008.
A caffeic acid derivative was isolated from Matteuccia struthiopteris (ostrich fern) as a major radical scavenger. The compound consisted of caffeic acid and L-homoserine. NMR and MS analysis revealed the structure as L-O-caffeoylhomoserine.