Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 50, Issue 10, Pages 2846-2855Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jf011442c
Keywords
Olea europea; olive oil mill wastewaters; polymers; supramolecular structure; pigments; metals; polysaccharides; proteins; melanin; phenols; chromatography; diffuse reflectance Infrared Fourier; transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS); atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS)
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A dark and complex metal polymeric organic mixture, named polymerin, was recovered from olive oil mill wastewaters (OMWW) and characterized by chemical analysis, diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS), and atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS). Polymerin proved to be composed of carbohydrates (52.40 mg 100(-1), w/w), melanin (26.14 mg 100(-1)), and proteins (10.40 mg 100(-1)), and the respective composition of monosaccharides, phenols, and amino acids was determined. It also contained metals (11.06 mg 100(-1)), mainly K+ and, to a lesser extent, Na+, Ca2+, Mg2-, Zn2+, Fe3-, and Cu2+, which were naturally bound and chelated through carboxylate anions and other characteristic nucleophilic functional groups naturally occurring in polymerin. The distribution of polymerin relative molecular size was assessed to be approximately between 500.0 and 2.0 kDa by calibrated molecular weight gel filtration chromatography, indicating also that a fraction consisted of protein, melanin, and polysaccharide, strongly aggregated to each other in a supramolecular status by a combination of covalent and hydrogen bonds and CH/II interactions, and another fraction of only free polysaccharide. Polymerin was transformed into a potassium salt deglycosylated derivative, named KSDpolymerin, which was also characterized by chemical analysis, DRIFTS, and AAS. KSDpolymerin consisted of carbohydrates (6.00 mg 100(-1)), melanin (52.49 mg 100(-1)), and proteins (35.40 mg 100(-1)), and the composition of monosaccharides, phenols, and amino acids was determined. It also contained metals (6.11 mg 100(-1)), mainly K+ and to a lesser extent Na+, Ca2+, Mg2-, Zn2+ and Fe3+, bound as in polymerin. All the organic components were strongly linked in a supramolecular aggregate status and the relative average molecular size proved to be 6.3 kDa. Finally, we briefly discuss the possible use of such polymerins in agriculture as bioamendments and macro-and microelement biointegrators and as a biofilter for toxic metal removal, in light of their similarity with humic acids.
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