Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 64, Issue 23, Pages 4807-4816Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.6b00541
Keywords
C. vulgaris; metabolomics; ethephon; alpha-tocopherol; GABA; fatty acids; lipids
Funding
- Basic Core Technology Development Program for the Oceans
- Polar Regions of the National Research Foundation (NRF) - Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning [NRF-2016M1A5A1027464]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant - Korea government (MSIP) [NRF-2015R1A5A1008958]
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In this study, Chlorella vulgaris (C. vulgaris) was treated with ethephon at low (50 mu M) and high (200 mu M) concentrations in medium and harvested at 0, 7, and 14 days, respectively. The presence of ethephon led to significant metabolic changes in C. vulgaris, with significantly higher levels of alpha-tocopherol, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), asparagine, and proline, but lower levels of glycine, citrate, and galactose relative to control. Ethephon induced increases in saturated fatty acids but decreases in unsaturated fatty acids. The levels of highly saturated sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol species and palmitic acid bound phospholipids were increased on day 7 of ethephon treatment. Among the metabolites, the productivities of alpha-tocopherol (0.70 mu g/L/day) and GABA (1.90 mu g/L/day) were highest for 50 and 200 mu M ethephon on day 7, respectively. We propose that ethephon treatment involves various metabolic processes in C. vulgaris and can be an efficient way to enrich the contents of alpha-tocopherol and GABA.
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