Chemical and metabolic profiling of Amaryllidaceae alkaloids in the bulbs of Narcissus tazetta L. var. chinensis Roem using liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry with data mining strategy
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Abstract
Rationale
The bulbs of Narcissus tazetta L. var. chinensis Roem (BNTCR) has been used as an herbal medicine for the treatment of carbuncles in China. The previous phytochemical studies indicated that the main active components of BNTCR were Amarllidaceae alkaloids (AAs). However, the comprehensive chemical and metabolic profiling of AAs in BNTCR remains underexplored. Therefore, it is necessary to establish an accurate and rapid approach for chemical characterization and metabolic profiling of AAs in BNTCR.
Methods
The structural elucidation of natural products by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled to quadrupole time of flight tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-QTOF-MS/MS) with outstanding properties is still limited due to complex mixtures that contain hundreds of compounds. In this study, we employed UHPLC-QTOF-MS/MS with a data mining strategy, including diagnostic fragment ions (DFIs) and neutral loss (NL), for rapid classifying and identifying AAs in BNTCR and prototypes absorbed into the blood of mice after oral administration of BNTCR extract.
Results
As a result, 87 AAs, including 13 narciclasine type, 13 homolycorine type, 17 lycorine type, 12 galanthamine type, 25 haemanthamine type, and 7 tazettine type, were tentatively characterized (6 verified with authentic standards). In addition, a total of 44 prototypes were identified in mice plasma, urine, and fecal samples. Among them, 8 prototypes were found in plasma, 36 in urine, and 40 in feces, respectively. Lycorine, pseudolycorine, homolycorine, 8-O-demetylhomolycorine, and tazettine, as major AAs in BNTCR, were absorbed into the blood.
Conclusions
Our findings provided a crucial step for the elucidation of the active compounds in BNTCR for treatment of carbuncles. In the future, the developed strategy could also be applied for identifying AAs in other herbal medicines from Amarllidaceae.
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Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry is a journal whose aim is the rapid publication of original research results and ideas on all aspects of the science of gas-phase ions; it covers all the associated scientific disciplines. There is no formal limit on paper length ("rapid" is not synonymous with "brief"), but papers should be of a length that is commensurate with the importance and complexity of the results being reported. Contributions may be theoretical or practical in nature; they may deal with methods, techniques and applications, or with the interpretation of results; they may cover any area in science that depends directly on measurements made upon gaseous ions or that is associated with such measurements.
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