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Simple Detection Methods for Antinutritive Factor β-ODAP Present in Lathyrus Sativus L. By High Pressure Liquid Chromatography and Thin Layer Chromatography

Simple Detection Methods for Antinutritive Factor β-ODAP Present in Lathyrus Sativus L. By High Pressure Liquid Chromatography and Thin Layer Chromatography

Bidisha Ghosh, Joy Mitra, Saikat Chakraborty, Jagannath Bhattacharyya, Anirban Chakraborty, Soumitra Kumar Sen, Muniasamy Neerathilingam

PLoS One. 2015 Nov 2;10(11):e0140649.

PMID: 26524073

Abstract:

Lathyrus sativus L. (Grass pea) is the source for cheap and nutritious food choice in drought and famine susceptible zones in greater part of North India and Africa. The non-protein amino acid β-N-oxalyl-L-α,β-diaminopropionic acid (β-ODAP) has been known for decades for its potent neurotoxic effect, causing irreversible neurodegenerative disease "neurolathyrism", present in both seed and leaf of Lathyrus sativus L. and other species in varying proportions. It is crucial to establish a rapid as well as reliable detection methodology for β-ODAP content in various Lathyrus plants. Currently available HPLC based methods involve multi-step derivatization of the sample. To overcome this, we have developed β-ODAP analysis method by HPLC without any prior derivatization. This method is statistically significant in the range of 2 to 100μg/ml and exhibited linear response with r2 > 0.99. Limit of detection and quantitation of the later method was determined to be 5.56 μg/ml and 16.86 μg/ml, respectively. In addition to this, a TLC based method has also been developed. The limit of detection of β-ODAP is 0.6μg and for its substrate, L-1,2-diaminopropionic acid is 5μg. Both HPLC and TLC methods were validated by conducting in-vitro bioconversion test to detect the presence of biocatalyst in plant extract. This method is economical, rapid and simple.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP5302454	β-ODAP		5302-45-4	Price

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