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JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
卷 92, 期 7, 页码 1533-1539出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.4739
关键词
tea plant (Camellia sinensis (L; ) O; Kuntze); tea flavan-3-ols; anthocyanidin reductase; enzyme assay
资金
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Prophase Program) [2007CB116211]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30771755, 30972401]
- Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province of China [090411006]
BACKGROUND: Flavan-3-ols, which account for approximately 700800 g kg-1 of tea polyphenols, exert many health-promoting effects. Anthocyanidin reductase (ANR) is an important enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of flavan-3-ols in the tea plant. The purpose of this study was to establish a suitable method for the determination of ANR activity. RESULTS: Thin layer chromatography (TLC), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and mass spectrometry (MS) analyses showed that cyanidin and delphinidin were converted into epicatechin and epigallocatechin respectively via ANR by using reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) as a coenzyme in the tea plant. In order tomeasure ANR activity via NADPH concentration changes at 340 nm, several interference factors were studied. The interferences from the high background absorbance of substrate and coenzyme and the oxidation reaction of substrate and product were excluded by devising control experiments, decreasing substrate and coenzyme concentrations or adding antioxidants. The optimal pH and concentrations of substrate and NADPH were chosen such that the ANR assays were carried out at 45. C for25min in a total volume of 1.5mL of reaction mixture containing 0.1 mol L-1 phosphate buffer (pH 6.5), 0.0667 mmol L-1 cyanidin, 1 mmol L-1 NADPH, 0.53 mmol L-1 ascorbic acid and 150 mu g total protein. Quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) analysis showed that the trends in ANR gene expression correspondedwith the enzyme activity in leaves at different development stages. CONCLUSION: The proposed method is simple, rapid, sensitive and suitable for the determination of ANR activity in the tea plant. (C) 2011 Society of Chemical Industry
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