Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules27030678
Keywords
Moringa oleifera leaf; high-speed countercurrent chromatography; polyphenols; quercetin; kaempferol; neuroprotective effects
Funding
- scientific research project of Education Department of Liaoning Province [2019LQN09, 2019LJC06]
- Doctoral Scientific Research Foundation of Liaoning Province [2020-BS-123]
- Liao Ning Revitalization Talents Program [XLYC1902040]
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This study successfully separated the main polyphenols from Moringa oleifera leaves using high-speed counter-current chromatography and verified their neuroprotective activities.
Moringa oleifera leaves have been widely used for the treatment of inflammation, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other diseases, due to being rich in polyphenols. The main objective of this work was to largely separate the main polyphenols from Moringa oleifera leaves using the technique of high-speed counter-current chromatography (HSCCC). The phenolic composition in Moringa oleifera leaves was first analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively by UPLC-Q-Exactive Orbitrap/MS and UPLC-QqQ/MS, respectively, indicating that quercetin and kaempferol derivatives, phenolic acid and apigenin are the main polyphenols in Moringa oleifera leaves, with quercetin and kaempferol derivatives predominating. Furthermore, the conditions of HSCCC for large-scale separation of polyphenols from Moringa oleifera leaves were optimized, which included the selection of the solvent system, flow rate and the sample load. Only by one-step HSCCC separation (within 120 min) under the optimized conditions, six quercetin and kaempferol derivatives, a phenolic acid and an apigenin could be individually isolated at a large scale (yield from 10% to 98%), each of which possessed high purity. Finally, the isolated polyphenols and phenolic extract from Moringa oleifera leaves (MLPE) were verified to have strong neuroprotective activities against H2O2-induced oxidative stress in PC-12 cells, suggesting that these compounds would contribute to the main beneficial effects of Moringa oleifera leaves.
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