Morin (flavonol)


Morin is a yellow chemical compound that can be isolated from Maclura pomifera, Maclura tinctoria, and from leaves of Psidium guajava. In a preclinical in vitro study, morin was found to be a weak inhibitor of fatty acid synthase with an IC50 of 2.33 μM. Morin was also found to inhibit amyloid formation by islet amyloid polypeptide and disaggregate amyloid fibers.
Morin can be used to test for the presence of aluminium or tin in a solution, since it forms characteristically fluorescent coordination complexes with them under UV light.

Glycosides