Determination of Nicotianamine in Soy Sauce and Other Plant-Based Foods by LC-MS/MS

Autor: Hitomi Yamaguchi, Riichiro Uchida
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 60:10000-10006
ISSN: 1520-5118
0021-8561
DOI: 10.1021/jf3035868
Popis: Nicotianamine is a nonproteinogenic amino acid, known to be an important metal chelator in plants. Recently, the antihypertensive effect of nicotianamine was discovered. In this study, a simple method to determine nicotianamine was developed using liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) with a multimode ODS column. This method does not need derivatizing or ion-pairing reagents to retain nicotianamine, which is known for its poor retention on reversed-phase columns because of its high polarity. Moreover, this method showed a sufficient limit of detection (0.5 ng/mL), so it was found to be suitable for the analysis of nicotianamine in soy sauce and other foods, without cleanup. To subtract the matrix effect during LC-MS/MS analysis, a standard addition method was used. The levels of nicotianamine in soy sauce ranged from
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