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Barrera Adame, Diana Astrid ; Schuster, Sabine ; Niedermeyer, Timo H. J.:
Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Coniine and Other Hemlock Alkaloids after On-Tissue Derivatization Reveals Distinct Alkaloid Distributions in the Plant.
In: Journal of Natural Products.
Vol. 87
(2024)
Issue 10
.
- pp. 2376-2383.
ISSN 1520-6025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.4c00445
Abstract in another language
Specialized metabolites play important roles in plants and can, for example, protect plants from predators or pathogens. Alkaloids, due to their pronounced biological activity on higher animals, are one of the most intriguing groups of specialized metabolites, and many of them are known as plant defense compounds. Poison hemlock, Conium maculatum, is well-known for its high content of piperidine alkaloids, of which coniine is the most famous. The distribution, localization, and diversity of these compounds in C. maculatum tissues have not yet been studied in detail. The hemlock alkaloids are low molecular weight compounds with relatively high volatility. They are thus difficult to analyze on-tissue by MALDI mass spectrometry imaging due to delocalization, which occurs even when using an atmospheric pressure ion source. In this manuscript, we describe an on-tissue derivatization method that allows the subsequent determination of the spatial distribution of hemlock alkaloids in different plant tissues by mass spectrometry imaging. Coniferyl aldehyde was found to be a suitable reagent for derivatization of the secondary amine alkaloids. The imaging analysis revealed that even chemically closely related hemlock alkaloids are discretely distributed in different plant tissues. Additionally, we detected a yet undescribed hemlock alkaloid in Conium maculatum seeds.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health > Chair Bioanalytical Sciences and Food Analytics |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 500 Science > 570 Life sciences, biology |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Apr 2025 09:47 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Apr 2025 09:47 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/93408 |