کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1173336 961668 2011 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
A highly specific and sensitive quantification analysis of the sterols in silkworm larvae by high performance liquid chromatography–atmospheric pressure chemical ionization–tandem mass spectrometry
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه شیمی شیمی آنالیزی یا شیمی تجزیه
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
A highly specific and sensitive quantification analysis of the sterols in silkworm larvae by high performance liquid chromatography–atmospheric pressure chemical ionization–tandem mass spectrometry
چکیده انگلیسی

The biochemical quantification of sterols in insects has been difficult because only small amounts of tissues can be obtained from insect bodies and because sterol metabolites are structurally related. We have developed a highly specific and sensitive quantitative method for determining of the concentrations of seven sterols—7-dehydrocholesterol, desmosterol, cholesterol, ergosterol, campesterol, stigmasterol, and β-sitosterol—using a high performance liquid chromatography–atmospheric pressure chemical ionization–tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC/APCI-MS/MS). The sterols were extracted from silkworm larval tissues using the Bligh and Dyer method and were analyzed using HPLC/APCI-MS/MS with selected reaction monitoring, using cholesterol-3,4-13C2 as an internal standard. The detection limits of the method were between 12.1 and 259 fmol. The major sterol in most silkworm larval tissues was cholesterol, whereas only small quantities of the dietary sterols were detected. Thus, a simple, sensitive, and specific method was successfully developed for the quantification of the sterol concentrations in each tissue of an individual silkworm larva. This method will be a useful tool for investigating to molecular basis of sterol physiology in insects, facilitating the quantification of femtomole quantities of sterols in biological samples.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Analytical Biochemistry - Volume 419, Issue 2, 15 December 2011, Pages 123–132
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