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本文介绍了检测和使用免费的纬向毛细管电泳从植物材料有机酸定量的方法。该方法的潜在应用中,确定在咖啡种子有机酸水平二次发酵的效果的一个例子中,提供了。
羧酸是含有一个或多个末端羧基(COOH)官能团的有机酸。短链羧酸(SCCAs;含有三至六个碳原子的羧酸),如苹果酸和柠檬酸,对许多生物系统,在那里它们在细胞呼吸功能,可以作为细胞的健康指标的适当运作的关键。在食品中,有机酸含量会对味道显著影响,导致酸或"酸"味增加SCCA水平。正因为如此,对于有机酸水平的快速分析方法特别适用于食品和饮料工业。然而不幸的是,用于SCCA量化大多数方法都依赖于需要具有危险的试剂样品的衍生费时协议,其次是昂贵的色谱和/或质谱分析。此方法详细介绍了组织的检测和定量替代方法从植物材料和使用自由纬向毛细管电泳(CZE)食物样本齐尼奇酸,有时简称为毛细管电泳(CE)。 CZE提供一种用于测量SCCAs与检测的下限(0.005毫克/毫升)的成本效益的方法。本文将详细介绍SCCAs从植物样品提取和量化。虽然所提供的方法主要针对从咖啡豆SCCAs的测定中,所提供的方法可应用于多个植物为基础的食品原料。
Carboxylic acids are organic compounds containing one or more terminal carboxyl functional groups, each attached to an R-group containing one or more carbons (R-C[O]OH). Short chain, low molecular weight carboxylic acids (short chain carboxylic acids, SCCAs) containing between one and six carbons, are essential components of cellular respiration, and function in several biochemical pathways necessary for cell growth and development. SCCAs play critical roles in cellular metabolism1, cell signaling2, and organismal responses to the environment (such as antibiosis3). Because of this, SCCAs can serve as useful indicators of disruptions to cellular metabolism, plant stress responses4,5, and fruit quality6,7. To date, SCCAs have been quantified primarily through chromatographic techniques such as high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) or gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). While these methods, are capable of achieving very low limits of detection, they can be expensive, require the derivatization of target SCCAs using caustic and/or toxic reagents, and include lengthy separation runs on the GC or HPLC. Because of this, interest in the use of free zonal capillary electrophoresis (CZE), which does not require sample derivatization, to quantify organic acids has steadily increased8.
Free zonal capillary electrophoresis (CZE) is a chromatographic separation methodology that, due to its high number of theoretical plates, speed, and relative ease-of-use, is increasingly replacing both GC-MS and high-pressure liquid chromatography as an analytical method for the quantification (particularly for quality control purposes) of anions, cations, amino acids, carbohydrates, and short chain carboxylic acids (SCCAs)8,9,10. CZE-based separation of small molecules, including SCCAs, is based two primary principles: the electrophoretic movement of charged ions in an electrical field established across the buffer filling the capillary; and the electro-osmotic movement of the entire buffer system from one end of the capillary to the other, generally towards the negative electrode. In this system, small molecules move towards the negative electrode at varying speeds, with the speed of each molecule determined by the ratio of the net charge of the molecule to the molecular mass. As the movement of each individual molecule in this system is dependent on the charge state of the molecule and the overall rate of electro-osmotic flow (which is itself based on the ion content of the buffer used to fill the capillary), the buffer pH and ionic composition heavily impact the degree to which molecules can be efficiently separated using CZE. Because of this, SCCAs, with their relatively high charge-to-mass ratios, are ideal targets for CZE-based separation. Metabolites separated using CZE can be detected using a variety of methods, including UV absorbance, spectral absorbance (which is generally performed using a photo-diode array [PDA]), and/or mass spectroscopy (CE-MS or CE-MS/MS)8. The diversity of separation and detection methods provided by CZE makes it an extremely flexible and adaptable technique. Because of this, CZE has been increasingly applied as a standard method of analysis in the areas of food safety and quality11,12, pharmaceutical research13, and environmental monitoring13,14.
Capillary electrophoresis has been used to detect and quantify short chain carboxylic acids for nearly two decades13. The resolving power (particularly for small, charged molecules), short run time, and low per sample cost of CZE analyses make CZE an ideal technique for the separation and quantification of SCCAs13. This method presents a protocol to utilize CZE to measure the concentration of organic acids from plant tissues. Example data was generated through the successful implementation of this protocol to measure the change in organic acid levels in coffee seeds following a secondary fermentation treatment. The protocol details the critical steps and common errors of CZE-based separation of SCCAs, and discusses the means by which this protocol can be successfully applied to quantify SCCAs in additional plant tissues.
1.样品制备
2.有机酸标准溶液配制
3.有机酸提取
4.设置了SCCA检测运行
表 1: 用于通过毛细制备用于短链羧酸的分离毛细管调理方法的程序电泳 。
表 2:用于通过毛细管电泳一个以分析短链羧酸的分离方法程序。
5. SCCA检测运行执行和数据收集
图1:PDA的比较突出的痕迹重载样本作为分析物浓度的增加,个别高峰几何可能开始变得不对称。在( 一 )0.05毫克/毫升,乙酸呈现良好定义的,左右对称的峰。作为乙酸增加到浓度(B)的0.07毫克/毫升和(c)0.10毫克/毫升,峰值尾形式(箭头)。这拖尾是一个很好的迹象表明,样品超载。 请点击此处查看该图的放大版本。
6.数据分析
该协议已成功用于测量的绿色咖啡种子的SCCA含量种子处理的影响。在这个实验中,6个处理为: 明串珠菌属的饱和微生物悬浮液在其生长培养基pseudomesenteroides应变GCP674(1),在水中GCP674微生物的含水悬浮液(2),乙酸和乳酸(0.15和0.4的水溶液毫克分别/ ml)的(3),一个废M1生长培养基处理(4),卫生署2 O水(5),和未治疗的对照(没有加入到种子...
正如任何分析技术,存在可以显著影响生成的数据的质量和可靠性的几个关键因素。首先,为了有效地处理样品,用最少的冷冻/解冻循环是很重要的。反复冻融可以处理或分析之前破坏样品的化学组成。其次,它是至关重要的这个协议的步骤一致并均匀地施加到所有样品。从不一致的样品制备和处理产生的技术错误可以显著影响所产生的数据的质量,并导致在SCCA测量增加的"噪音"。例如,样品后...
The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests.
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of this project by The J.M. Smucker company.
Name | Company | Catalog Number | Comments |
Ceramic Moarter and Pestle | Coorstek | 60310 | |
Beckman Coulter P/ACE MDQ CE system | Beckman Coulter | Various | |
Glass sample vials | Fisher Inc. | 033917D | |
1.5 ml microcentrifuge tubes | Fisher Inc. | 02-681-5 | |
LC/MS grade water | Fisher Inc. | W6-1 | Milli-Q water (18.2 MΩ.cm) is also acceptable |
15 ml glass tube/ Teflon lined cap | Fisher Inc. | 14-93331A | |
Parafilm M | Fisher Inc. | 13-374-12 | |
CElixirOA detection Kit pH 5.4 | MicroSolv | 06100-5.4 | |
BD Safety-Lok syringes | Fisher Inc. | 14-829-32 | |
17 mm Target Syringe filter, PTFE | Fisher Inc. | 3377154 | |
32 Karat, V. 8.0 control software | Beckman Coulter | 285512 | |
capillary electrophoresis (CE) sample vials | Beckman Coulter | 144980 | |
caps for CE vials | Beckman Coulter | 144648 | |
Liquid Nitrogen | N/A | N/A | Liquid nitrogen is available from most facilities services |
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