Absence of Tocotrienol Form of Vitamin E in Purple Perilla (Perilla frutescens var. acuta Kudo) Seeds Confirmed by Comparative Analysis Using HPLC and GC

GC 및 HPLC 비교분석에 기초한 차조기 종실내 tocotrienol 부재의 평가

  • Lee, Young-Sang (Quality Control Institute for Agricultural Products, Soonchunhyang Univ.) ;
  • Kim, Min-Kyoung (Quality Control Institute for Agricultural Products, Soonchunhyang Univ.)
  • 이영상 (순천향대학교 농산물품질및안전성평가연구소) ;
  • 김민경 (순천향대학교 농산물품질및안전성평가연구소)
  • Published : 2008.12.31

Abstract

Lipid soluble vitamin E consists of tocopherols and tocotrienols depending upon double bonds in phytyl side chains attached to chromanol ring. Recent reports on antioxidative, anticancer, and cholesterol-lowering effects of tocotrienols have increased researches and commercialization of tocotrienols. Purple perilla (Perilla frutescens var. acuta Kudo) has been reported as a plant containing tocotrienols along with tocopherol forms of vitamin E based upon normal phase HPLC analysis. To confirm the existence or absence of tocotrienol form of vitamin E in purple perilla, comparative analysis using HPLC, GC/FID, and GC/MSD has been conducted for 14 purple perilla genetic accessions collected from Korea and Japan. Normal phase HPLC analysis showed ${\alpha}-$, ${\beta}-$, ${\gamma}-$, and ${\delta}-tocopherols$ along with peaks with retention times quite similar to ${\beta}-$ and ${\gamma}-tocotrienols$. Same purple perilla samples, analysed by GC exhibited ${\alpha}-$, ${\beta}-$, ${\gamma}-$, and ${\delta}-tocopherols$ quantitatively equivalent to HPLC results. However, no peaks for ${\beta}-$ and ${\gamma}-tocotrienols$ could be observed and unknown two peaks of similar retention times with ${\beta}-$ and ${\gamma}-tocotrienols$ were identified not corresponding tocotrienols by GC/MSD. These results suggest the absence of tocotrienol form of vitamin E in purple perilla as well as the necessity of using GC-based qualitative and quantitative vitamin E analysis to avoid misinterpretation of peaks with similar retention times as tocotrienol isomers when analysed by an HPLC.

비타민 vitamin E 구성 성분으로 항산화, 항암, 고지혈증 개선 등 다양한 생리활성을 나타내는 tocotrienol이 국내산 차조기에서 보고된 바, 존재 여부 확인을 위하여 국내수집 6종, 일본수집 8종 등 총 14종의 차조기 유전자원과 들깨 종실을 대상으로 HPLC 및 GC, GC/MS 비교 분석을 수행 하였으며 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 순상의 HPLC 이용시 차조기에서 4종의 tocopherol 및 ${\beta}-tocotrienol$, ${\gamma}-tocotrienol$과 매우 유사한 머무름 시간의 발견되었다. 2. 그러나 동일 시료를 GC로 재분석한 결과 13개 차조기 유전자원에서 모두 4종의 tocotrienol과 일치하는 물질은 발견되지 않았다. 3. GC 이용시 ${\delta}-tocotrienol$${\gamma}-tocotrienol$과 유사한 머무름 시간의 peak가 검출되었으나 GC/MS를 이용하여 확인한 결과 tocotrienol이 아닌 것으로 확인되었다. 4. 이상의 HPLC 및 GC 비교분석결과에 기초할 때, 차조기에는 tocotrienol류의 vitamin E는 존재하지 않는 것으로 추정되었으며 GC를 이용한 vitamin E isomer 분석이 HPLC 이용시 발생가능한 유사 머무름시간대 물질을 tocotrienol로 판단하는 오류 방지에 효과적임을 알 수 있었다.

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