Development and Validation of An RP-HPLC Method For Methionine, Cystine and Lysine Separation and Determination in Corn Samples
Development and Validation of An RP-HPLC Method For Methionine, Cystine and Lysine Separation and Determination in Corn Samples
Development and Validation of An RP-HPLC Method For Methionine, Cystine and Lysine Separation and Determination in Corn Samples
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IULIA VARZARU1,2*, ARABELA ELENA UNTEA2, TEODOR MARTURA3, MARGARETA OLTEANU2, TATIANA DUMITRA PANAITE2,
MARIA SCHITEA3, ILIE VAN1
1
University of Agronomic Science and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, 59 Marasti Blv., 011464, Bucharest, Romania
2
National Research Development Institute for Animal Biology and Nutrition (INCDBNA) 1 Calea Bucuresti, 077015 Balotesti, Ilfov,
Romania
3
National Agricultural Research and Development Institute (INCDA) 1 Nicolae Titulescu Str., 915200, Fundulea, Cãlãraºi, Romania
In this paper a RP-HPLC method is developed and validated. Using a Hypersil BDS C18 column, a mobile
phase: solvent A (phosphate buffer) and solvent B (water : acetonitrile : methanol, 20:20:60 v/v/v), a 45°C
column temperature and a flow rate of 1.7 mL/min, the proposed method proved a good separation of the
investigated amino acids, in 35 minutes.
Corn (Zea mays L.) is a worldwide grown plant which - HyperSil BDS C18 column, with silica gel, dimensions
has a high productive potential, twice as much compared 250 × 4.6 mm, particle size 5μm (Thermo-Electron
to other cereals. It is a major component of the feed Corporation, Waltham, MA);
formulations for farm animals. Like in the other cereals, - Rotary evaporator Buchi (Zurich, Switzerland);
the feeding value of the corn protein is determined by the - Dr ying stove BMT ECOCELL Blueline Comfort
presence of essential amino acids (lysine, methionine, (Neuremberg, Germany);
cystine and others). The determination of the essential - Sartorius analytical balance (Gottingen, Germany);
amino acids concentration from corn is a key-instrument - Water purification system Mili-Q Ultrapure (Millipore,
for the nutritionists, irrespective of the animal species. Billerica, MA);
Hence, the necessity to develop more accurate and precise - Laboratory mill, GRINDOMIX GM 200 Retsch (Haan,
methods to determine the amino acids from the corn used Germany);
in animal diets. - Glass vials closing in flame Termodensirom (Bucharest,
The high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) Romania).
has been used by many authors in order to analyse the Class A glassware Schott Duran (Meinz, Germany) was
amino acid content from all kind of feed matrices: sorghum used for transfer, dilution and storage of the working
grain [1], rice grain [2], peanut meal [1], fruits and solutions.
vegetables [3-6], soybean [7], soybean meal [7],
compound feeds [8], cotton [9]. EU Regulation no. 152/ Chemicals
2009 [10], laying down the methods of sampling and Cysteic acid and methionine sulfone, reference
analysis for the official control of feed, recommends for materials for HPLC, were supplied by Sigma (Deisenhofer,
separation and quantification of amino acids the use of ion Germany).
exchange chromatography (IEC) technique with post- Lysine, aspartic acid, alanine and leucine reference
column derivatization with ninhydrine and visible spectrum materials for HPLC, were supplied by Merck (Darmstadt,
detection. Germany).
There are several methods describing the amino acid Stock solution of the standard amino acid mixture was
analysis in corn samples: IEC [11-15]; gas chromatography prepared in hydrochloric acid (0.1 M) and contained 500
coupled with mass spectrometry (GC/MS) [16]; near µg/ mL for each amino acid (cysteic acid, methionine
infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) [17, 18] and sulfone, lysine, aspartic acid, alanine, leucine).
HPLC [1, 7]. The reversed phase high performance liquid The reagents: hydrogen peroxide (30%), disodium
chromatography (RP-HPLC) was used for separation of phosphate, sodium citrate, phenol, hydrochloric acid (37%,
the amino acids from corn, on a Superpac ODS-2 column d = 1.19 kg·L-1), sodium hydroxide, boric acid, sodium
coupled to an LKB dual pump HPLC system, controlled by disulphite (all analytical reagent grade), methanol and
a gradient generator with 50 minutes time of analyse [19]. acetonitrile (HPLC grade) were supplied by Sigma
The objective of our research was to develop and (Deisenhofer, Germany).
validate a fast and sensitive RP-HPLC method for Derivatization materials: orto-phtaldehyde (OPA),
methionine, lysine and cystine separation and mercapto-propionic acid (AMP) and 9-Fluorenylmethyl
determination. The proposed method was applied on chloroformate (FMOC), formic acid and thiodiethanol (all
several corn grain samples. analytical reagent grade) were supplied by Merck
(Darmstadt, Germany).
Experimental part Buffer solutions: citrate (19.61 g/L, pH 2.2) and borate
Equipment (33.35 g/L, pH 10.2) for the samples preparation, as well
- HPLC Finningan Surveyor Plus (Thermo-Electron as phosphate (3.85 g/L, pH 7.8) for the mobile phase were
Corporation, Waltham, MA); prepared in our laboratory.
* email address: [email protected]; Tel.: 0040 21 351 20 82
Table 1
INFLUENCE OF THE
FLOW RATE ON THE
RETENTION TIME VALUES
AND ON THE
RESOLUTION FOR THE
SEPARATION OF CYSTEIC
ACID, ASPARTIC ACID,
METHIONINE SULFONE,
ALANINE, LEUCINE AND
LYSINE
35 min. Figures 2 and 3 show the gradient programs profile RP-HPLC Method Validation
and the corresponding chromatograms. The RP-HPLC method used for the separation and
The influence of the column temperature on the quantitative determination of methionine, cysteine and
retention time values and on the resolution of separation, lysine was validated according to the international rules
was performed by testing different levels of temperature [22, 23].
(30, 35, 40, 45 0C). As a result, the total analysis time The required performance criterion for accuracy is the
decreased proportionally with the increase of column bias in interval of -2 – 2%. For 10 repeated determinations
temperature. For 450C, the retention time of the last amino and 9 degree of freedom [25], the value given in the table
acid (lysine) on chromatogram decreased with 2.19 min. is t = 2.26. The obtained results for accuracy were
The resolution obtained for the 3 pairs of amino acids evaluated using the Student’s t test [26]. The calculated t
studied varied in the range 0.95 and 2.80 (fig. 4). values (between -2.06 and -0.80), were smaller, in all cases
In conclusion, the amino acids: cysteic acid, methionine than the theoretical one. As shown in table 2 the data
and lysine can be separated in 35 min using a Hypersil BDS belong to the same population of values as the reference
column (C18), 250 x 4.6 mm, 5 μm particle size. Mobile value, so the method can be considered validated for the
phase consists in a mixture of solvent A (phosphate buffer accuracy parameter. The correlation coefficients, R2 of the
3.85 g/L) and solvent B (water : acetonitrile : methanol, linear regression equations exceeded 0.9985,
20:20:60, v/v/v), column temperature 45°C and a flow rate demonstrating a good correlation between the measured
of 1.7 mL/min and the gradient program d. Figure 4 shows response (area of the peak) and the concentration of the
a chromatogram obtained under these conditions, where analyte. The LOD value for the investigated amino acids
the retention times are the following: 2.91 min for cysteic ranged between 0.03 and 0.34 μg/mL, and the LOQ value
acid, 3.27 min for aspartic acid, 13.28 min for methionine, between 0.10 and 1.04 μg/mL. The detection and
14.53 min for alanine, 24.47 min for leucine and 25.17 min quantification limits obtained for the proposed method are
for lysine. comparable with the values reported by other authors for
Table 3
RESULTS OBTAINED FOR CYSTINE, METHIONINE AND LYSINE DETERMINATION IN CORN
GRAIN SAMPLES USING THE RP-HPLC PROPOSED METHOD AND THE METHOD [24]
the same type of analyte [27 - 29]. For a concentration of 1 Amino acids determinations in corn grain samples
mg / L, the maximum accepted RSD value is 10.72%, The proposed RP-HPLC method was applied to the
according to Horwitz equation [30]. The obtained values determination of the essential amino acids: cysteine,
for RSD were between 2.71 - 6.29% for all the investigated methionine and lysine in real samples. Eight corn grain
amino acids. The range 80 - 120% is the required samples belonging to 8 hybrids, were collected for
performance criteria for recovery. The values obtained for analytical determinations. The results obtained by the
recovery varied from 95.27 to 102.90 for all the investigated proposed method, were compared with those provided by
amino acids. The results obtained from parameters application of the method [24] but using a 250 x 4.6 mm
evaluated were in the range of performance criteria column dimensions. Table 3 shows the results obtained
required and this provided the validation of all steps in the for cysteine, methionine and lysine determinations in the
amino acid analysis. corn grain samples.
As shown in figure 5, there is a good correlation (R2 =
0.9312 for cystine, 0.8620 for methionine, and 0.804 for