Formation of carthamin by a partially purified enzyme from safflower seedlings

Summary An enzyme responsible for synthesizing carthamin from precarthamin was partially purified and the catalytic properties were investigated.Acknowledgments. The authors wish to thank Prof. A. Komamine, University of Tokyo, for reading this paper. We are indebted to Prof. A. Saito, Tokai University, for performing emission spectrochemical analysis of the enzyme protein used in this study.