Improved isolation procedure for azaspiracids from shellfish, structural elucidation of azaspiracid-6, and stability studies
Kilcoyne, Jane Keogh, Adela Clancy, Ger LeBlanc, Patricia Burton, Ian Quilliam, Michael A. Hess, Philipp Miles, Christopher O.
Kilcoyne, Jane
Keogh, Adela
Clancy, Ger
LeBlanc, Patricia
Burton, Ian
Quilliam, Michael A.
Hess, Philipp
Miles, Christopher O.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/12264
https://doi.org/10.13025/28520
https://doi.org/10.13025/28520
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2012-03-14
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Kilcoyne, Jane; Keogh, Adela; Clancy, Ger; LeBlanc, Patricia; Burton, Ian; Quilliam, Michael A. Hess, Philipp; Miles, Christopher O. (2012). Improved isolation procedure for azaspiracids from shellfish, structural elucidation of azaspiracid-6, and stability studies. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 60 (10), 2447-2455
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Azaspiracids are a group of lipophilic polyether toxins produced by the small dinoflagellate Azadinium spinosum. They may accumulate in shellfish and can result in illnesses when consumed by humans. Research into analytical methods, chemistry, metabolism, and toxicology of azaspiracids has been severely constrained by the scarcity of high-purity azaspiracids. Consequently, since their discovery in 1995, considerable efforts have been made to develop methods for the isolation of azaspiracids in sufficient amounts and purities for toxicological studies, in addition to the preparation of standard reference materials. A seven-step procedure was improved for the isolation of azaspiracids-1-3 (1, 2, and 3) increasing recoveries 2-fold as compared to previous methods and leading to isolation of sufficiently purified azaspiracid-6 (6) for structural determination by NMR spectroscopy. The procedure, which involved a series of partitioning and column chromatography steps, was performed on 500 g of Mytilus edulis hepatopancreas tissue containing similar to 14 mg of 1. Overall yields of 1 (52%), 2 (43%), 3 (43%), and 6 (38%) were good, and purities were confirmed by NMR spectroscopy. The structure of 6 was determined by one- and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. The stability of 6 relative to 1 was also assessed in three solvents in a short-term study that demonstrated the greatest stability in aqueous acetonitrile.
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