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The compound annonacin is contained in the fruit, seeds, and leaves of soursop. [16] [17] [18] The leaves of Annona muricata contain annonamine, which is an aporphine-class alkaloid containing a quaternary ammonium group. [19] The plant also contains lichexanthone, a compound in the xanthone class. [20]
Oxalis pes-caprae (African wood-sorrel, Bermuda buttercup, Bermuda sorrel, buttercup oxalis, Cape sorrel, English weed, goat's-foot, sourgrass, soursob or soursop; Afrikaans: suring; Arabic: hommayda (حميضة) [2]) is a species of tristylous yellow-flowering plant in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae.
Annona montana, the mountain soursop, is a tree and its edible fruit in the Annonaceae family native to Central America, the Amazon, and islands in the Caribbean. It has fibrous fruits. [ 4 ] A. montana may be used as a rootstock for cultivated Annonas .
The Annonaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas [3] commonly known as the custard apple family [4] [3] or soursop family. With 108 accepted genera and about 2400 known species, [ 5 ] it is the largest family in the Magnoliales .
Several annonaceous species have been found to contain acetogenins, a class of natural compounds with a wide variety of biological activities. [9] [10] The first complete genome for a species in this genus (Annona muricata) was published in 2021. [11] The earliest fossils have been found in the Lance Formation dating to the Late Cretaceous. [12]
Annonacin is a disabling and potentially lethal neurotoxin. [4] [5] [6] Like other acetogenins, it is a mitochondrial complex I (NADH-dehydrogenase) inhibitor. [5]As NADH-dehydrogenase is responsible for the conversion of NADH to NAD+ as well as the establishment of a proton gradient in the mitochondria, annonacin disables the ability of a cell to generate ATP through oxidative phosphorylation ...
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Annona senegalensis, commonly known as African custard-apple, [3] wild custard apple, wild soursop, abo ibobo (Yoruba language), [4] sunkungo (Mandinka language), and dorgot (Wolof language) [5] is a species of flowering plant in the custard apple family, Annonaceae.