... especially withrespect to its glycone/aglycone speci®city a nd ability to catalyse the hydrolysis of dietary xenobiotic glycosides. Thisis also the ®rst report describing heterologous expression of a ... b-D-arabino-sides), similar to the native enzyme. For the ®rst time, weshow that the human enzyme has signi®cant activity towardsmany common dietary xenobiotics including glycosides of phytoestrogens, ¯avonoids, ... (5¢-TTTTT T GGATCCCTACAGATGTGCTTCAAGGCC-3¢), thusintroducing XhoIandBamHI sites, respectively (underlined)at each end of the gene. The 5¢ terminus of this construct wasdesigned to introduce t...