scholarly journals A robust method of extraction and GC-MS analysis of Monophenols exhibited UV-B mediated accumulation in Arabidopsis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maneesh Lingwan ◽  
Shyam Kumar Masakapalli
Keyword(s):  
Growth Conditions ◽  
Methyl Tert Butyl Ether ◽  
Robust Method ◽  
Butyl Ether ◽  
Methanolic Extracts ◽  
Tissue Extracts ◽  
Ms Analysis ◽  
Assisted Extraction ◽  
Efficient Extraction ◽  
Method Of Extraction

Studies on specialised metabolites like phenolics are of immense interest owing to their significance to agriculture, nutrition and health. In plants, phenolics accumulate and exhibits spatial and temporal regulations in response to growth conditions. Robust methodologies aimed at efficient extraction of plant phenolics, their qualitative and quantitative analysis is desired. We optimised the analytical and experimental bottlenecks that captured free, ester, glycoside and wall-bound phenolics after acid or alkali treatments of the tissue extracts and subsequent GC-MS analysis. Higher recovery of phenolics from the methanolic extracts was achieved by through a) Ultrasonication assisted extraction along with Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) enrichment b) nitrogen gas drying and c) their derivatisation using MSTFA for GC-MS analysis. The optimised protocol was tested on Arabidopsis rosette exposed to UV-B radiation (280-315 nm) which triggered enhanced levels of 11 monophenols and might be attributed to photoprotection and other physiological roles. Interestingly, coumaric acid (308 m/z) and caffeic acid (396 m/z) levels were enhanced by 12-14 folds under UV-B. Other phenolics such as cinnamic acid (220 m/z), hydroxybenzoic acid (282 m/z), vanillic acid (312 m/z, gallic acid (458 m/z), ferulic acid (338 m/z), benzoic acid (194 m/z), hydroxycinnamic acid (368 m/z) and protocatechuic acid (370 m/z) also showed elevated levels by about 1 to 4 folds. Notably, vanillin (253 m/z) was detected only in the UV-B exposed tissues. The protocol also comprehensively captured the variations in the levels of ester, glycoside and wall-bounded phenolics with high reproducibility and sensitivity. The robust method of extraction and GC-MS analysis can readily be adopted for studying phenolics in plant systems.

scholarly journals Unveiling Biological Activities of Marine Fungi: The Effect of Sea Salt

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 6008
Author(s):  
Micael F. M. Gonçalves ◽  
Ana Paço ◽  
Luís F. Escada ◽  
Manuela S. F. Albuquerque ◽  
Carlos A. Pinto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Marine Fungi ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Biological Activities ◽  
Vero Cells ◽  
Growth Conditions ◽  
Sea Salt ◽  
Cytotoxic Activities ◽  
Methanolic Extracts ◽  
Assisted Extraction ◽  
Multiresistant Strains

There is an urgent need for new substances to overcome current challenges in the health sciences. Marine fungi are known producers of numerous compounds, but the manipulation of growth conditions for optimal compound production can be laborious and time-consuming. In Portugal, despite its very long coastline, there are only a few studies on marine fungi. From a collection of Portuguese marine fungi, we screened for antimicrobial, antioxidant, enzymatic, and cytotoxic activities. Mycelia aqueous extracts, obtained by high pressure-assisted extraction, and methanolic extracts of culture media showed high antioxidant, antimicrobial, and cytotoxic activities. The mycelium extracts of Cladosporium rubrum showed higher antioxidant potential compared to extracts from other fungi. Mycelia and culture media extracts of Aspergillus affinis and Penicillium lusitanum inhibited the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Kocuria rhizophila, Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, including multiresistant strains. Penicillium lusitanum and Trichoderma aestuarinum inhibited the growth of clinical strains of Candida albicans, C. glabrata, C. parapsilosis, and C. tropicalis. All extracts from culture media were cytotoxic to Vero cells. Sea salt induced alterations in the mycelium’s chemical composition, leading to different activity profiles.

scholarly journals NEW COMPONENTS OF ALCEA NUDIFLORA EXTRACT AFTER MICROWAVE EXTRACTION

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-84
Author(s):  
Natal'ya Alekseyevna Pankrushina ◽  
Tat'yana Petrovna Kukina
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Biologically Active ◽  
Methyl Tert Butyl Ether ◽  
Butyl Ether ◽  
Assisted Extraction ◽  
Acetate Methyl ◽  
Neutral Compounds ◽  
New Compounds ◽  
Promising Source ◽  
Alcea Nudiflora

Alcea nudiflora (Lindl.) Boiss. (Malvaceae) has a wide area of growth in Central Asia, the Altai territory and Western Siberia and has long been used in folk and traditional medicine. Availability of the resource and long-term application practice makes Alcea nudiflora a promising source of valuable biologically active natural compounds. The chemical composition of A nudiflora has been studied after effective microwave assisted extraction (MAE) performed using solvents with different ability to convert microwave energy into heat: hexane, ethyl acetate, methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and ethyl alcohol (EtOH). The selected MAE conditions enabled us to reduce significantly the extraction time and obtain extracts enriched with new compounds. The chemical composition of aboveground part extracts of Alcea nudiflora (Lindl.) Boiss was studied by applying GC/MS method. 13 acids were discovered for the first time, including 6 aromatic acids and 7 unbranched monobasic acids of unsaturated and saturated series, as well as 11 new neutral compounds, including 7 naphthalene derivatives.

scholarly journals Biodegradation of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether and Other Fuel Oxygenates by a New Strain, Mycobacterium austroafricanum IFP 2012

2002 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 2754-2762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan François ◽  
Hugues Mathis ◽  
Davy Godefroy ◽  
Pascal Piveteau ◽  
Françoise Fayolle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Sodium Dodecyl ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
Butyl Alcohol ◽  
Amyl Alcohol ◽  
Methyl Tert Butyl Ether ◽  
Methylotrophic Bacterium ◽  
Specific Rate ◽  
Butyl Ether ◽  
Mycobacterium Austroafricanum

ABSTRACT A strain that efficiently degraded methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) was obtained by initial selection on the recalcitrant compound tert-butyl alcohol (TBA). This strain, a gram-positive methylotrophic bacterium identified as Mycobacterium austroafricanum IFP 2012, was also able to degrade tert-amyl methyl ether and tert-amyl alcohol. Ethyl tert-butyl ether was weakly degraded. tert-Butyl formate and 2-hydroxy isobutyrate (HIBA), two intermediates in the MTBE catabolism pathway, were detected during growth on MTBE. A positive effect of Co2+ during growth of M. austroafricanum IFP 2012 on HIBA was demonstrated. The specific rate of MTBE degradation was 0.6 mmol/h/g (dry weight) of cells, and the biomass yield on MTBE was 0.44 g (dry weight) per g of MTBE. MTBE, TBA, and HIBA degradation activities were induced by MTBE and TBA, and TBA was a good inducer. Involvement of at least one monooxygenase during degradation of MTBE and TBA was shown by (i) the requirement for oxygen, (ii) the production of propylene epoxide from propylene by MTBE- or TBA- grown cells, and (iii) the inhibition of MTBE or TBA degradation and of propylene epoxide production by acetylene. No cytochrome P-450 was detected in MTBE- or TBA-grown cells. Similar protein profiles were obtained after sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of crude extracts from MTBE- and TBA-grown cells. Among the polypeptides induced by these substrates, two polypeptides (66 and 27 kDa) exhibited strong similarities with known oxidoreductases.

Phthalate degradation by glow discharge plasma enhanced with pyrite in aqueous solution

2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 1365-1375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chensi Shen ◽  
Shaoshuai Wu ◽  
Hui Chen ◽  
Sadia Rashid ◽  
Yuezhong Wen
Keyword(s):  
Aqueous Solution ◽  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Glow Discharge ◽  
Discharge Plasma ◽  
Ph Value ◽  
Glow Discharge Plasma ◽  
Methyl Tert Butyl Ether ◽  
Butyl Ether ◽  
Polymeric Compound ◽  
X Ray

In order to prevent health risk from potential exposures to phthalates, a glow discharge plasma (GDP) process was applied for phthalate degradation in aqueous solution. The results revealed that the phthalate derivatives 4-hydroxyphthalic acid, 4-methylphthalic acid and 4-tert-butylphthalic anhydride could be degraded efficiently in GDP process (498 V, 0.2 A) with high removal efficiencies of over 99% in 60 minutes. Additionally, pyrite as a promising heterogeneous iron source in the Fenton reaction was found to be favorable for GDP process. The phthalate degradation reaction could be significantly enhanced by the continuous formation of •OH and the inhibition of the quenching reaction in the pyrite Fenton system due to the constant dissolution of Fe(II) from pyrite surface. Meanwhile, the initial pH value showed little impact on the degradation of phthalates and the energy efficiency of GDP system for phthalate degradation ranged between 0.280 × 10−9 and 1.210 × 10−9 mol/J, which is similar to the GDP system with phenol, bisphenol A and methyl tert-butyl ether as the substrates. Further, the X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analyses indicated that the pyrite was relatively stable in GDP system and there was no obvious polymeric compound formed on the catalyst surface. Overall, this GDP process offers high removal efficiency, simple technology, considerable energy efficiency and the applicability to salt-containing phthalate wastewater.

Direct dissolution of gallstones with methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) via endoscopic transpapillary catheterization in the gallbladder (ETCG)

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naohito Uchida ◽  
Toshiaki Nakatsu ◽  
Shuko Hirabayashi ◽  
Atsushi Minami ◽  
Hiroki Fukuma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Methyl Tert Butyl Ether ◽  
Butyl Ether ◽  
Tert Butyl ◽  
Direct Dissolution ◽  
Dissolution Of Gallstones
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