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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 24, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms241813732
Keywords
chemical composition; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; nuclear magnetic resonance; proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight-mass spectrometer; solid-phase microextraction; volatile organic compounds
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In this study, a metabolomic approach was applied to explore the metabolome of dried hop leaves, revealing a wide range of chemical components including volatile organic compounds, terpenic compounds, fatty acids, sugars, amino acids, organic acids, and alcohols.
Currently, the leaves of the hop plant (Humulus lupulus L.) are an unexploited and still little-investigated agricultural by-product. In our study, with the aim of exploring the metabolome of dried hop leaves (Chinook cultivar), a metabolomic approach was applied using multiple analytical tools such as SPME/GC-MS, GC-MS, PTR-ToF-MS, and NMR to identify the secondary metabolites. The obtained results showed the presence of a high number of components belonging to different chemical classes. In fact, thanks to the multi-methodological approach, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with low molecular weight, terpenic compounds, fatty acids, sugars, amino acids, organic acids, and alcohols have been detected and identified. Among the revealed terpenes in the untreated matrix, the sesquiterpenes alpha-humulene, beta-caryophyllene, and alpha-copaene were the most abundant. Among the saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, palmitic and linolenic acids, respectively, were those with the highest relative percentages. Particularly relevant was the sugar content, where sucrose was the main exponent while glutamate and asparagine were the principal detected amino acids. Conversely, alcohols and organic acids were the least abundant compound classes, and xanthohumol was also identified in the methanolic extract.
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