Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 37, 1372-1376, Copyright © 1996 by Lipid Research, Inc.
Semi-preparative isolation of plant sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerols by solid phase extraction and HPLC procedures
HA Norman, CF Mischke, B Allen and JS Vincent
Weed Science Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA.
Techniques are described for the semi-preparative isolation of
sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol from plant leaf tissue lipid extracts and the
resolution and analysis of component molecular species.
Sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol was resolved from phospholipids in a polar
lipid fraction by isocratic normal phase HPLC with detection at 208 nm. The
mobile phase was composed of heptane-isopropanol-0.001 M KCl 40:52:8
(v/v/v). Yields from spinach leaf lipid extracts were 1.8 mg.10 g-1 fresh
wt leaf tissue. Molecular species components of purified
sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol were separated by reversed-phase C18 HPLC,
and fatty acid positional distribution was defined.