Freshwater algae chemotaxonomy by high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) analysis

doi:10.1007/s11783-010-0283-1

Front Envir Sci Eng Chin

2011, Vol. 5

Issue (1) : 84-91 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-010-0283-1

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Freshwater algae chemotaxonomy by high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) analysis

Yansong HOU^1,2, Wei LIANG¹(

), Liping ZHANG¹, Shuiping CHENG¹, Feng HE¹, Zhenbin WU¹

1. State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; 2. Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Abstract

The study of community composition of algae is essential for understanding the structure and dynamics of the aquatic ecosystem and for evaluating the eutrophic level of the water body. A high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method based on a reverse-phase C₁₈ nonpolar column was developed for the main algal taxa, which includes cyanophytes, bacillariophytes, euglenophytes, dinophytes, and chlorophytes. Based on the elution order using HPLC, 19 pigments were identified, and they were chlorophyllide a, 19′-butanoyloxyfucoxanthin, chlorophyll c₁ + c₂, phephorbides a, peridinin, methyl-chlorophyllide a, fucoxanthin, neoxanthin, violaxanthin, myxoxanthophyll, diadinoxanthin, diatoxanthin, lutein, zeaxanthin, chlorophyll b allomer, chlorophyll b, chlorophyll a allomer, chlorophyll a, and β,β-carotene. A comparison study of cell microscopic counts and accessory pigment analysis indicated that HPLC analysis could be a useful tool for monitoring phytoplankton communities and their abundance.

Keywords high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) algae pigment chemotaxonomy

Corresponding Author(s): LIANG Wei,Email:liangwei02@tsinghua.org.cn; wuzb@ihb.ac.cn

Issue Date: 05 March 2011

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Yansong HOU,Wei LIANG,Liping ZHANG, et al. Freshwater algae chemotaxonomy by high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) analysis[J]. Front Envir Sci Eng Chin, 2011, 5(1): 84-91.

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Tab.1 List of all pigments detected in cultures of monospecies, with the corresponding retention time (RT, min), absorption maxima, and primary source

Fig.1 Chromatograms of Yuehu Lake in November extract by HPLC pigment analysis at 440 nm (Peaks are labeled according to Table 1)

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