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Article history: Glycolipids of fresh latex from three clones of Hevea brasiliensis were characterized and quantied by
Received 27 November 2009 HPLC/ESI-MS. Their fatty acyl and sterol components were further conrmed by GC/MS after saponica-
Received in revised form 22 April 2011 tion. The four detected glycolipid classes were steryl glucosides (SG), esteried steryl glucosides (ESG),
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monogalactosyl diacylglycerols (MGDG) and digalactosyl diacylglycerols (DGDG). Sterols in SG, ESG
and total latex unsaponiable were stigmasterol, b-sitosterol and D5-avenasterol. The latter was found
Keywords: instead of fucosterol formerly described. Galactolipids were mainly DGDG and had a fatty acid composi-
Hevea brasiliensis
tion different from that of plant leaves as they contained less than 5% C18:3. Glycolipids, which repre-
Euphorbiaceae
Latex
sented 2737% of total lipids, displayed important clonal variations in the proportions of the different
HPLC/MS fatty acids. ESG, MGDG and DGDG from clone PB235 differed notably by their higher content in furan
Glycolipids fatty acid, which accounted for more than 40% of total fatty acids. Clonal variation was also observed
Galactolipids in the relative proportions of glycolipid classes except MGDG (8%), with 4351% DGDG, 3034% SG
Galactosyl diacylglycerols and 719% ESG. When compared with other plant cell content, the unusual glycolipid composition of
Steryl glucosides H. brasiliensis latex may be linked to the peculiar nature of this specialized cytoplasm expelled from lat-
Furan fatty acids iciferous system, especially in terms of functional and structural properties.
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will deal with several hundred samples from trees cultivated and Table 2
tapped under various conditions, a rapid and direct analysis Fatty acid composition (% mol/mol) of the total glycolipid fraction from fresh latex
from three H. brasiliensis clones, determined by GC.
method was required for qualitative and quantitative determina-
tion of glycolipid content. Among the possible methods, HPLC/MS Fraction Fatty acid H. brasiliensis clone
is promising as it allows a direct and sensitive study of glycosyl- RRIM600 PB235 BPM24
ated conjugates without derivatization. It has been used in several Total lipid fraction C14:0 0.3 0.2 0.4
works for glycolipid analysis in plant, animal or microbial lipid ex- C16:0 8.0 3.6 7.0
tracts (de Souza et al., 2007; Gil et al., 2003; Ruibal-Mendieta et al., C16:1 0.4 1.8 0.5
2004; Yamauchi et al., 2001). Reverse-phase chromatography C18:0 13.6 5.7 13.9
C18:1 9.5 3.3 9.5
allows the separation of glycolipids according to both their family
C18:2 49.4 10.6 40.2
and their FA composition, whereas in normal phase chromatogra- C18:3 2.7 0.9 1.7
phy, glycolipids from a same family have very close retention FuFAa 15.2 73.4 25.8
times, which facilitate their quantication. As a detection method, C20:0 0.8 0.5 1.0
Glycolipid fraction C14:0 0.3 0.4 0.4
both atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) and electro-
C16:0 9.6 9.7 7.9
spray ionization (EI) mass spectrometry have been proposed. In the C16:1 0.6 1.6 1.1
work reported here, we have used normal phase HPLC coupled to C18:0 16.2 12.3 16.8
ESI-MS to directly separate, identify and quantify each glycolipid C18:1 15.3 6.5 18.5
family in total glycolipid extracts obtained by preparative silica C18:2 46.9 24.8 43.9
C18:3 3.0 2.5 3.1
gel column chromatography. For the development of the method,
FuFAa 7.6 41.5 7.6
the identication was comforted by GC analysis (ame ionization C20:0 0.5 0.6 0.6
detection, FID) of the FA and GCMS analysis of sterol composition Phospholipid fraction C14:0 0.7 1.5 1.4
of the total glycolipid extract. C16:0 9.2 11.6 9.3
C16:1 0.9 8.2 1.1
C18:0 14.1 15.2 16.0
C18:1 11.2 8.3 13.4
2. Results
C18:2 58.7 36.0 52.9
C18:3 3.0 2.7 2.0
2.1. Global composition of the glycolipid family FuFAa 1.6 15.4 3.1
C20:0 0.5 1.2 0.8
Total lipid and glycolipid content of latices from the three Data are the mean of 3 repetitions (independent extractions). Standard deviations
H. brasiliensis clones are given in Table 1. Glycolipids represented were <5% of the means.
a
2737% of total latex lipids, depending on the H. brasiliensis clone, FuFA: furan fatty acid or 10,13-epoxy-11-methyl octadeca-10,12 dienoic acid,
and 0.71% of the dry rubber content. Latex from clone PB235 con- Rt = 7.35 min.
tained the highest total lipid content but the highest amount of
glycolipids was found in latex from clone BPM24. In order to deter-
mine FA and sterol proles of glycolipids from the studied latices,
samples of the glycolipid fraction were saponied and subjected to and, to a lesser extent, C16:0. The abundance of FuFA in lipids from
GC and GC/MS analysis. FA ranged from C14 to C20 (Table 2). the H. brasiliensis PB235 clone was the highest reported so far.
Linoleic acid was the major FA in glycolipids from the latex of Three sterols were detected by GC/MS analysis of TMS ether
RRIM600 (47% of total FA) and BPM24 (44%) clones, while glycolip- derivatives from the unsaponiable of both total and glycolipid
ids from H. brasiliensis PB235 contained 42% furan FA (FuFA, 10,13- fractions: stigmasterol (5a-stigmasta-5, 22-dien-3b-ol), b-sitos-
epoxy-11-methyl octadeca-10,12 dienoic acid) and only 25% terol (5a-stigmast-5-en-3b-ol) and D5-avenasterol (5a-stigmasta-
C18:2. The structure of furan fatty acid was veried by 1H and 5,24(28)-dien-3b-ol (24Z)). Their identication was based on the
13
C NMR after a preliminary purication from trifuranoyl glycerol comparison of both their retention times and mass spectra with
contained in lipid extract from PB235 clone (Figs. 1 and 2). The that of commercial standards. For D5-avenasterol, of which no
analysis of chemical shifts from 1H and 13C NMR spectra showed standard sample was available, the reference used was an unsa-
the presence in this fatty acid of furfuryl group substituted by poniable from oat (Avena sativa, L.) kernel oil, that is known to
methyl group. Moreover, the 13C NMR spectroscopy results are contain this sterol (Mtt et al., 1999). It is to be noted that
consistent with those reported by Marcel et al. (1981). The pres- previous works (Hasma and Subramaniam, 1986; Nair et al.,
ence of high amounts of FuFA in H. brasiliensis latex has been re- 1993) reported the presence of fucosterol (5a-stigmasta-
ported previously; it was shown to be clone-dependent and 5,24(28)-dien-3b-ol (24E)) instead of the D5-avenasterol found in
located in triacylglycerols and glycolipids, but not in phospholipids our study.
(Hasma, 1984; Hasma and Subramaniam, 1986). As shown in Table Relative proportions of sterols are given in Table 3 for each la-
2, the relative abundance of FuFA among total FA was, depending tex. Differences were observed between clones, with a higher
on the clone, 1.84 times lower in glycolipids than in total lipids, amount of D5-avenasterol in H. brasiliensis PB235. In every clone,
whereas glycolipids were richer in C18:1 (1.62 times), C18:0 the relative abundance of D5-avenasterol was lower in glycolipids
than in the total lipids.
Table 1
Glycolipid content of latices from three H. brasiliensis clones.
2.2. HPLC separation of glycolipid families
H. brasiliensis clone % Total lipids % Glycolipids % Glycolipids
(w/w dry rubber) (w/w lipid) (w/w dry rubber) Chromatograms on Fig. 3 show the separation of a mixture of
RRIM600 2.5c 27abc 0.68b commercial glycolipids from soybean (SG, ESG) and plant leaves
PB235 3.5a 23bc 0.82ab (MGDG, DGDG), and of the glycolipid fraction from H. brasiliensis
BPM24 2.8b 37a 1.0a
RRIM600 fresh latex. Four common peaks were found in both sam-
Data are the mean of 3 repetitions (independent extractions). Values not connected ples, corresponding to ESG (2.32.6 min), MGDG (2.8 min), SG
by same letter are signicantly different (P = 5%). (3.3 min) and DGDG (5.0 min). A supplementary compound, eluted
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Fig. 1. 1H NMR spectrum of puried furan fatty acid. The protons at 0.9; 1.3; 2.35 ppm were assigned to the CH3 terminal group of aliphatic chain (proton a), CH2 (proton b) in
aliphatic chain and CH2 (proton e) in a position of carbonyl group. These protons are representative of classical fatty acids. The CH2 (proton c) at 1.6 ppm represents the
different protons in b-position of carbonyl and furfuryl groups. The presence of CH2 (proton f) at 2.5 ppm is attributed to CH2 group in a-position of furfuryl groups, the
protons of CH3 group at 2.35 ppm (proton d) in a-position of furfuryl groups and the proton of CH furfuryl group at 5.7 ppm (proton g) conrmed the presence of furfuryl
group in fatty acid chain.
after 9.8 min, was present in the DGDG commercial standard but 2.3.1. Steryl glucosides
not in the glycolipids extracted from latex. The mass of the de- Two main ions were detected in the latex samples, correspond-
tected ion (m/z 699) and the chromatographic behaviour of the ing to stigmasteryl or D5-avenasteryl glucoside (m/z 597) and b-
compound corresponded to that of lyso-DGDG, detected as [diga- sitosteryl glucoside (m/z 599) respectively (Fig. 4). [b-Sitosteryl
lactosyl monolinolenin + Na]+. glucoside + Na]+ was the main ion, which was consistent with
the sterol composition of the glycolipid fractions given in Table 3.
2.3. Identication of glycolipid molecular species
2.3.2. Esteried steryl glucosides
ESI-mass spectra of each glycolipid family peak permitted to
The most abundant ion in the ESG family peak found in every H.
characterize molecular species differing by their FA prole. The de-
brasiliensis clones latex was m/z 859 (Fig. 5), that corresponds to
tected masses are listed in Table 4. The second column of the table
the structures of b-sitosteryl (60 -O-linolenoyl) glucoside, stigmas-
presents possible molecular species matching ion masses with the
teryl (60 -O-linoleoyl) glucoside and avenasteryl (60 -O-linoleoyl)
FA and sterol composition of the total glycolipid fraction from latex
glucoside. It accounted for around 3040% of total detected ESG
reported above. The relative molecular composition of each glyco-
ions. The fraction from PB235 clone was characterized by a high
lipid family was evaluated by integration of peaks extracted for
amount of FuFA esters of b-sitosteryl glucoside (m/z 889, 14% of
each m/z from the TIC chromatogram. Due to the lack of pure stan-
ESG ions).
dards for each combination of FA within a given glycolipid family
and the complex relationship between detectors response and
concentration (including ionization yields and mutual suppression 2.3.3. Sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerols
both in mixtures and overlapping peaks), it was not possible to SQDG are among the major glycolipid components of the photo-
precisely quantify the various molecular species. However, relative synthetic membrane in plants, algae and various bacteria (Welti
detectors responses are given in Table 4 for each glycolipid family et al., 2003; Rezanka et al., 2003; Young et al., 1999). Due to its
to allow comparison between clones, with the hypothesis that the strong negative charge at neutral pH, SQDG standard was analyzed
effects of mutual suppression by the various components of lipid in negative ESI mode and observed as [MH]. The most abundant
mixtures will affect in a similar way all the molecular species with- molecular species in the standard was C16:0/C18:3-SQDG (m/z
in a given family (i.e. with a same sugar moiety and differing only 815) (Fig. 6). This species could be also detected in positive ESI po-
by FA composition). sitive mode in the form of [MH + 2Na]+ (m/z 861). However, this
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Fig. 2. 13C NMR spectrum of puried furan fatty acid in CDCl3. The chemical shift value at 180 ppm is attributed to carbonyl groups (carbon 7) and the peaks at 153, 150, 114
and 107 ppm are characteristic of furfuryl cycles carbon (carbon 3, 4, 5, and 6), respectively. The CH2 carbon type (carbon 2) has a chemical shift value between 22 and
34 ppm. The CH3 carbon type (carbon 1 and 8) has a chemical shift value at 14 and 10 ppm characteristic of the terminal carbon of aliphatic chain and the CH3 group in a-
position of furfuryl groups. Experiment was conducted in attached proton test (APT) mode, therefore the CH and CH3 types (carbon 1, 4, and 8) are represented by negative
signals.
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%
%
00
00 10 00 1 0
5.00 (e) DGDG 5.04
100 100 (e) DGDG
% %
0 0
3.30 3.25
100 (d) SG 100 (d) SG
% %
0 0
2.82 2.82
100 (c) MGDG 100 (c) MGDG
% %
0 0
2.34 2.60
100 (b) ESG 100 (b) ESG
% %
5.87 7.79
0 0
of injections, using 5 concentrations of standards (Fig. 9). The re- Glycolipids represented about one third of total lipids from H.
sponse for each glycolipid family was determined by the integra- brasiliensis latex, and about 1% of the dry rubber. Half of the glyco-
tion of the chromatographic peak extracted from the total ion lipids mass consisted in DGDG, another third being SG. Some clonal
chromatogram for the appropriate m/z range (see Fig. 3be), except variation in the proportions of the four glycolipid classes detected
for MGDG and ESG that had relatively close mean retention times was observed, especially in the ESG content (719% of total glyco-
and shared ions with common masses (m/z 837 and 857, Table 4). lipids) that seemed to be inversely correlated to the DGDG amount
For these families, the response was the sum of the peak areas ob- so that the total ESG + DGDG was 5862% of total glycolipids in the
tained from a m/z range chromatogram excluding the common latices from the three clones studied.
ions, and from individual chromatograms obtained for m/z 837
(Rt 2.55 for ESG and 2.95 min for MGDG) and m/z 857 (Rt 2.29
and 2.73 min, respectively). Due to the lack of specic standards 3. Discussion
from H. brasiliensis, molar response coefcients were determined
for each glycolipid family using commercial standards from parsley Like other eukaryotic organisms, plants produce a variety of
leaf and soybean oil. Although differences in FA composition be- sterols and sterol derivatives. They are essential components of
tween standards and samples may not allow precise quantication, cellular membranes where they participate to the control of mem-
data were used for relative comparison between samples from the brane uidity and permeability (Heftmann, 1970; Heinz, 1996;
three Hevea clones. Schaller, 2003). Sterols in plants exist as free sterols, acylated ster-
Results are given on Fig. 10. The main glycolipid was DGDG in ols, steryl glycosides and acylated steryl glycosides (Moreau et al.,
the three latices (4351% of total glycolipids), followed by SG 2002; Phillips et al., 2002). The same sterol moieties are generally
(3034%). A higher interclonal difference was observed for ESG, found in these different forms (Grunwald, 1978; Potocka and
which content varied from 7% in the BPM24 samples to 19% in Zimowski, 2008). Naturally occurring SG have been identied as
PB235. MGDG, that are generally the most abundant galactoglycer- 3b-hydroxyglucosides, where C-1 of the carbohydrate forms the
olipids in plants (Benning and Ohta, 2004), were found in small glycosidic linkage (Grunwald, 1978). The sugar often reported
amount (8%) in H. brasiliensis latex. These results are consistent most in SG is glucose, although galactose, mannose and gentiobi-
with those indirectly obtained by preparative TLC and sugar quan- ose also have been found. Indeed, a previous study carried out on
tication in a previous study using H. brasiliensis RRIM501 latex H. brasiliensis latex using gas liquid chromatography (GLC), indi-
(DGDG 63%, SG 21%, ESG 10% MGDG 6%) (Hasma and Subraman- cated that glucose was attached to the ESG and SG fractions, and
iam, 1986). galactose to MGDG and DGDG (Hasma, 1984). Studies on SG and
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862
% 585 597 600 %
863
586 883
601 607 833 839 864
583 919
0 0
816
%
% 600 817
817
597 818 837
601 787 793
639 0 m/z
0 760 780 800 820 840 860 880 900 920 940
(c) PB235
599
100 Fig. 6. ESI-MS mass spectra of SQDG standard from plant chloroplast thylakoid
membranes in negative mode (a) and positive mode (b).
597 600
%
595 601
639 ESG biosynthesis of various plants have suggested that ESG forma-
0
tion could occur via two pathways (Frasch and Grunwald, 1976;
(d) RRIM600
599 Grunwald, 1978; Potocka and Zimowski, 2008). In the rst one,
100
acyl groups are transferred from phospholipids to SG by a micro-
somal enzyme. In the second proposed pathway, a soluble enzyme
% 600 uses acyl groups originating from galactolipids for SG acylation but
597
601 at a distinctly lower rate compared to the rst pathway. However,
595 639 ESG biosynthesis is not yet fully known as different specicities of
0 m/z
m/z
560 570 580 590 600 610 620 630 640 the acyltransfering enzymes were observed according to the
source. For instance, galactolipids were shown to be the sole acyl
Fig. 4. ESI-MS mass spectra of SG from the fresh latex of three H. brasiliensis clones
donors in broad bean leaves, while the acyltransferase activity in
(bd) compared to that of a standard from soybean (a). Details on assigned
structures for ions detected in latex glycolipids are given in Table 4. The detected carrot roots used both phospholipids and galactolipids (Eichenber-
ion at m/z 585 detected in the standard corresponds to the structure of [campe- ger and Siegrist, 1975). For RRIM600 and BPM24 Hevea clones, the
steryl glucoside + Na]+. fatty acid constituents observed in the main ESG from Hevea latex
were C16:0, C18:2 and C18:3 (Table 4) which were also found in
both phospholipids and glycolipids (Table 2). However, furan fatty
acid was found in high amounts in galactolipids from PB235 clone
100
837 (ions corresponding to FuFA/FuFA MGDG and FuFA/FuFA DGDG
(a) Standard represented 47% and 39% of total detected ions, respectively) but
838 to a lesser extent in phospholipids (15% of total fatty acids Table
% 2) as in ESG (1424% of ESG ions). This would suggest that ESG in
839
H. brasiliensis latex might originate mainly from phospholipids via
0 the rst pathway. SG was present in a higher amount than ESG in
(b) BPM24 the glycolipid fraction of Hevea latex, with 3034% and 719% of
859 total glycolipids, respectively. To the contrary, a recent survey of
100
48 edible plant sources contrarily showed that acylated steryl glu-
861
837 cosides were 210 times more abundant than non-acylated sterol
% 865 glycosides in most of vegetables. Nevertheless, some vegetables
835 838 857 903
839 867 877 878 889 905 912 and fruits displayed higher SG than ESG (1.52.5 times higher)
831 891
0 such as apple, pear and Japanese radish (Sugawara and Miyazawa,
(c) PB235 1999). This difference has been proposed to be affected by specic
859 demands depending on plant species, age, tissues and environmen-
100
903 tal signals (Heinz, 1996; Picchioni et al., 1995; Wojciechowski,
865 889
887
837 857 890 1991).
% 904
835 866 Although numerous studies have discussed the roles of sterols
838 877 891 905911
832
855
878 and derivatives in many plants, their role in H. brasiliensis latex
0 has still to be determined. Further studies should aim not only at
(d) RRIM600 a better understanding of their metabolism but also of their roles
859 on the special characters of this plant and their eventual impact
100
861
on natural rubber properties.
865
H. brasiliensis latex contains high amounts of galactolipids (14
% 837 857 866 903
838 16% MGDG and 8486% DGDG), that represented 5060% of total
835 904
873 877 889 glycolipids (Fig. 10) and 2337% of total lipids (Table 1). Contrarily
829 856 878 890 913
0 m/z
m/z to MGDG and DGDG, no detectable amount of SQDG was found in
820 830 840 850 860 870 880 890 900 910 920 latex. The predominance of DGDG over MGDG among latex galac-
Fig. 5. ESI-MS mass spectra of ESG from the fresh latex of three H. brasiliensis clones
tolipids is consistent with observations made on A. sativa and
(bd) compared to a standard from soybean (a). Details on assigned structures for A. thaliana in non-photosynthetic tissues (Andersson et al., 2003;
ions detected in latex glycolipids are given in Table 4. Hrtel et al., 2000). In an earlier work (Hasma, 1984), glycolipids
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797
100 769 (a) Standard
% 799
815
100
(b) BPM24
805
% 841
839
777 791
857
100
(c) PB235
%
771 815
805
873
777 833 903
791 843 889 947
0
815
100 (d) RRIM600
805
%
771 837
859
779
792
763 871 880 896 911 919 930
938 947
0 m/z
m/z
760 780 800 820 840 860 880 900 920 940
Fig. 7. ESI-MS mass spectra of MGDG from the fresh latex of three H. brasiliensis clones (bd) compared to a commercial standard from plant leaves (a). Details on assigned
structures for ions detected in latex glycolipids are given in Table 4. The ions at m/z 769, 797 and 799 found in the standard correspond to the structure of [C16:3/18:3-
MGDG + Na]+, [C18:3/18:3-MGDG + Na]+ and [C18:2/18:3-MGDG + Na]+, respectively.
were found to represent 41% and 65% of the total (glycolip- 1.13.11.x) (Liavonchanka and Feussner, 2006). A specic oxidized
ids + phospholipids) in the RRIM600 and GT1 clones, respectively. C18 fatty acid, characterized by a methylated furan ring, has been
Although this work did not separate galactolipids from the rest shown to be present in H. brasiliensis latex in various proportions
of the glycolipids, its results are consistent with our ndings and depending on the clone and the lipid fraction studied. As in Has-
might indicate a specic trait of Hevea latex. Tables 2 and 4 show mas work (Hasma and Subramaniam, 1978), we have evidenced
that the MGDG and DGDG from Hevea latex do not contain high FuFA in triglycerides and glycolipids, but only in low amounts in
amounts of C18:3 as found in leaves of Euphorbiaceae but have a phospholipids (none in Hasmas study). Our study further showed
composition similar to that of neutral lipids and phospholipids, ex- that FuFA is present in every esteried glycolipid family, i.e. MGDG,
cept for the amounts of furan fatty acid that will be discussed be- DGDG and ESG. Both GCMS analysis of fatty acids obtained by the
low. This may be linked to the activity of non-plastid membranes hydrolysis of the various latex lipid fractions (data not shown) and
as, interestingly, H. brasiliensis latex contains various kinds of HPLCESI-MS analysis of the raw lipids, showed only one molecu-
membrane-bound organelles, mostly consisting in rubber particles, lar species of FuFA in Hevea latex, i.e. 10,13-epoxy-11-methyl octa-
in vacuoles called lutoids and in double-membrane chromoplasts deca-10,12 dienoic acid (conrmed by NMR). This fatty acid,
named Frey-Wyssling particles (de Fay et al., 1989; Nair, 2000). classied as of the F2 type in the classication of furan acids
The peculiar high ratio between galactolipids and phospholipids (Hannemann et al., 1989), is thus undoubtedly the product of a
in the cytoplasm of laticifers raises the question of its physiological specic enzyme activity (Berger et al., 2001). Furan fatty acids
role. It is to be noted that expressed sequence tags (ESTs) analysis are quite ubiquitous in living organisms but seem to be synthe-
of latex mentioned several genes involved in the rubber biosynthe- sized by plants, where they are generally found at trace levels,
sis and defense- or stress-related genes but gave no evident clues and by some microorganisms (Gorst-Allman et al., 1988; Spiteller,
about lipid modication (Chow et al., 2007; Ko et al., 2003). 2005). The proposed mechanism for the biosynthesis of the most
Plants are known to contain a rich variety of oxidized lipids, also common furan fatty acids is a multistep pathways starting by a
called oxylipins (Stelmach et al., 2001), that mainly result from the lipoxygenase-catalyzed oxidation of either linoleic acid (LA, cis,-
activity of enzymes of the versatile lipoxygenase family (EC cis-9,12-octadecadienoic acid) or cis,cis-9,12-hexadecadienoic acid
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968
965
%
939 963 970
937 942 991 993 995 1019 1035
0
(c) PB235
1019
100
1020
% 967
968 1021 1035
939 965
941 991 995 1051
937 997
0
(d) RRIM600
967
100
965 968
%
963 970
939
941 1019
937 971 993 995 1035
0 m/z
m/z
850 875 900 925 950 975 1000 1025 1050 1075 1100
Fig. 8. ESI-MS mass spectra of DGDG from the fresh latex of three H. brasiliensis clones (bd) compared to a standard from plant leaves (a). Details on assigned structures for
ions detected in latex glycolipids are given in Table 4. The ions at m/z 931 and 959 detected in the standard correspond to the structure of [C16:3/18:3-DGDG + Na]+ and
[C18:3/18:3-DGDG + Na]+, respectively.
3.00E+07 1.80E+08
2 2
R = 0.9974 (SG) R = 0.9950 (DGDG)
2.50E+07 1.50E+08
2.00E+07 1.20E+08
area
1.50E+07 9.00E+07
1.00E+07 6.00E+07
5.00E+06 3.00E+07
0.00E+00 0.00E+00
0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80
concentration (mg/ml) concentration (mg/ml)
1.20E+07 8.00E+07
2 2
R = 0.9991 (ESG) R = 0.9988 (MGDG)
9.00E+06 6.00E+07
area
6.00E+06 4.00E+07
3.00E+06 2.00E+07
0.00E+00 0.00E+00
0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25
concentration (mg/ml) concentration (mg/ml)
Fig. 9. Example of calibration curves of standard glycolipids for quantitation by HPLC/MS. A new calibration was realized for each series of samples. j: DGDG, h: MGDG, :
SG and }: ESG.
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4. Experimental
4.1. Materials
4.2. Methods
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Table 4
Molecular species found in each glycolipid family from latex of three H. brasiliensis clones. The relative proportion of each ion in a family was calculated by the integration of the
chromatogram extracted for its specic mass. Structure assignment for each detected ion was obtained by matching its mass with the fatty acids and sterols present in the total
glycolipid fraction.
spectra of the furanoid fatty acid were recorded in deuterated chlo- 4.2.7. Analysis of fatty acid and sterol TMS ether derivatives from
roform (CDCl3) as solvent. saponied extracts
Total lipid extracts, a sample of oat oil and isolated glycolipid
fractions were saponied according to Christie (2003). The free
4.2.6. Isolation of neutral lipid, glycolipid and phospholipid fractions FA and unsaponiable fractions were recovered separately in hex-
The procedure described by Rouser et al. (1967) was followed, ane for further analysis by gas chromatography as described below.
except that the lipid/silica ratio was 1:30 (w/w) instead of 1:60. Prior to their injection, samples were submitted to silylation
Lipid extract (1 ml of 60 mg/ml solution in chloroform) was according to Vaysse et al. (2002).
loaded onto a silica gel column (1.6 10 cm) containing 1.8 g of
silica gel 60 (0.0400.063 mm, Merck, Germany). Neutral lipids,
glycolipids and phospholipids were successively eluted with chlo- 4.2.7.1. Analysis of the fatty acid composition by GC/FID. FAME deriv-
roform (60 ml), acetone/methanol (9:1 v/v, 90 ml) and methanol atives of FA from the glycolipid and phospholipids fraction were
(60 ml). The ow rate was approximately 1 ml/min. Each elution analyzed using a Shimadzu GC17A gas chromatograph (Shimadzu
fraction was collected separately then weighed after solvent Co., Kyoto, Japan) equipped with a BPX70 fused silica capillary col-
evaporation. umn (30 m, i.d. 0.25 mm, lm thickness 0.25 lm, SGE, Victoria,
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