High performance liquid chromatography of non-protein amino acids extracted fromAcacia seeds

Autor: Christine S. Evans, David A. Younie, Ajit J. Shah, Max W. Adlard
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: Phytochemical Analysis. 3:20-25
ISSN: 1099-1565
0958-0344
DOI: 10.1002/pca.2800030104
Popis: A sensitive, reversed phase, high performance liquid chromatographic procedure for the analysis of non-protein amino acids has been developed. The method is based on precolumn derivatization with 9-fluoroenylmethyl chloroformate of the non-protein amino acids characteristic of seeds of Acacia species, namely N-acetyldjenkolic acid, diaminopropionic acid and diaminobutyric acid and their acetyl, ureido and oxalyl N-substituted derivatives. The separation of derivatives was achieved by means of a gradient elution programme utilizing two buffers of different pH values and acetonitrile. Following separation, the derivatized amino acids were detected spectrofluorometrically. The levels of non-protein amino acids in seeds of Acacia species, which were representative of three taxonomically distinct groups, were measured by analysis of ethanol extracts.
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