Tanin hydrolysable

Les tanins hydrolysables sont un type de tanins caractérisés par leur faculté d'être hydrolysés.

On en distingue deux sous-types:

• les gallotanins (exemple: pentagalloyl glucose)
• les ellagitanins (exemple: punicalagines)

• (en) Funatogawa K., Hayashi S., Shimomura H. et al., 2004. Antibacterial activity of hydrolyzable tannins derived from medicinal plants against Helicobacter pylori. Microbiol. Immunol. 48 (4): 251–61, DOI 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2004.tb03521.x, PMID 15107535.
• (en) Yang L.L., Lee C.Y. & Yen K.Y., 2000. Induction of apoptosis by hydrolyzable tannins from Eugenia jambos L. on human leukemia cells. Cancer Lett. 157, August 2000, (1): 65–75, DOI 10.1016/S0304-3835(00)00477-8, PMID 10893444.
• (en) Tanimura S., Kadomoto R., Tanaka T., Zhang Y.J., Kouno I. & Kohno M. 2005. Suppression of tumor cell invasiveness by hydrolyzable tannins (plant polyphenols) via the inhibition of matrix metalloproteinase-2/-9 activity. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 330, May 2005, (4): 1306–13, DOI 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.03.116, PMID 15823585.

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