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PHYTOCHEMISTRY
Volume 78, Issue -, Pages 147-155Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2012.02.028
Keywords
Cyanobacteria; Mastigocladus laminosus; Tolypothrix; RP-HPLC/MS-APCI; Polyunsaturated triacylglycerols; Regioisomeric separation; Stearidonic acid; 3,6,9,12-Octadecatetraenoic acid; Picolinyl esters
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- GACR [P503/11/0215]
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Reversed phase liquid chromatography-atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry (RP-HPLC/APCI-MS) was used for direct analysis of triacylglycerols (TAGS) from different strains of the cyanobacteria Mastigocladus laminosus, Tolypothrix cf tenuis and Tolypothrix distort. This technique enabled us to identify and quantify the specific molecular species of TAGs directly from lipid extracts of the cyanobacteria. The regioisomeric series of TAGs having alpha-linolenic and gamma-linolenic and also oleic and cis-vaccenic acids were separated by RP-HPLC and identified by APCI-MS. M. laminosus produced only a few molecular species of TAGs, including both isomers of octadecenoic (oleic and vaccenic) acid, while T. distorta contained tens of molecular species of TAGs having FAs with up to four double bonds (stearidonic acid and including also its positional isomer, i.e. 3,6,9,12-octadecatetraenoic acid) and both positional isomers (alpha and gamma) of linolenic acids. Individual strains of both cyanobacteria exhibited different contents of polyunsaturated fatty acids (Tolypothrix sp.) and different distribution of positional isomers of monoenoic fatty acids in TAGs (M. laminosus). (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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