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JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 59, Issue 7, Pages 3004-3013Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jf105005q
Keywords
carotenoids; up-regulation; high-resolution mass spectrometry; electrospray-time-of-flight; Scenedesmus; sodium acetate; sodium chloride; stress-induced carotenogenesis; differential analysis; astaxanthin; canthaxanthin; targeted metabolomics; metabolite profiling
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Carotenoids have potent antioxidant activity as well as therapeutic value, and their formation has been seen to be induced in algae by stress, including high-salt culture conditions. A differential profiling of carotenoids was conducted using a targeted metabolomics approach with accurate mass data generated by liquid chromatography-electrospray-time-of-flight (LC-ESI-TOF) mass spectrometry followed by postacquisition filtering based on isotope patterns and mass defects to detect carotenoids up-regulated in Scenedesmus sp. exposed to high-salt conditions. Algal cultures treated with high concentrations of sodium acetate or sodium chloride were found to cause an increase in various carotenoids. On the basis of differential analysis, astaxanthin and canthaxanthin increased upon salt treatment. Astaxanthin, in its free form and as fatty acid esters, was seen to increase in Scenedesmus sp. using accurate mass MS. A few other carotenoid compounds increased upon salt treatment, including echinenone and adonirubin, involved in the pathway of astaxanthin biosynthesis from beta-carotene, as well as isomers of astaxanthin and canthaxanthin. A time course study of acetate treatment was done to observe the time-dependent up-regulation of carotenogenesis.
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