Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 376, Issue 6, Pages 884-889Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-003-2003-1
Keywords
iridoid glycoside; micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography; electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry; partial filling; Melitaea cinxia
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The iridoid glycosides, methyl catalpol, asperuloside, verbenalin, cinnamoyl catalpol, catalpol and aucubin, were studied from both larvae and adults of butterfly Melitaea cinxia. Special emphasis in the study was put on finding a correlation between the iridoid glycoside content in butterflies and plants. An optimised partial filling micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatographic-electrospray ionisation mass spectrometric (PF-MECC-ESI-MS) method was employed for the separation and identification of the six iridoid glycosides. In this work, the isolation and determination of catalpol and aucubin from extracts of both larvae and adults of Melitaea cinxia butterflies is demonstrated. The PF-MECC-ESI-MS method, using the [M+Na]+, [M+Li]+ and/or [M+NH4]+ adducts in ESI-MS, was used for quantification of aucubin and catalpol in the insects. In addition, the identification of all analytes was attempted by direct infusion MS/MS analysis. LOQ values for the iridoid glycosides varied between 10 mg/l (for verbenalin) to 50 mg/l (for catalpol and aucubin) corresponding to 0.1% of the samples dry mass. A correlation was noticed between the concentrations of iridoid glycosides in plants and the concentrations in larvae feeding on them.
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