Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 16, Issue 8, Pages 6621-6633Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules16086621
Keywords
zebrafish; notoginsenoside R-1; ginsenoside Rg(1); ginsenoside Rb-1; metabolism
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [30973978]
- Jiangsu Provincial Chinese Medicine Leading Talent project
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Zebrafish, a common model organism for studies of vertebrate development and gene function, has been used in pharmaceutical research as a new and powerful tool in recent years. In the present study, we applied zebrafish for the first time in a metabolic study of notoginsenoside (R-1), ginsenoside (Rg(1)) and ginsenoside (Rb-1), which are saponins isolated from Panax notoginseng. Metabolites of these three saponin compounds in zebrafish after exposure for 24 h were identified by high performance liquid chromatography - electrospray mass spectrometry (HPLC-ESI-MS) with a Zorbax C-18 column for separation using a binary gradient elution of 0.05% formic acid acetonitrile 0.05% formic acid water. The quasi-molecular ions of compounds were detected in negative mode. Step-wise deglycosylation metabolites and hydroxylation metabolites of the three saponins were found, which were coincide with regular methods for metabolic analysis. Our study demonstrated that the zebrafish model can successfully imitate the current metabolic model with advantages of lower cost, far less amount of compound needed, easy set up and high performance. Our data suggests that the zebrafish metabolic model has the potential for developing a novel method for quickly predicting the metabolism of Chinese herb components, including those of trace compounds.
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