Abstract

The pharmaceutical industry is interested in identifying novel target compounds. Due to their versatile pharmacological activities (e.g. antiviral, anti-carcinogen and immunosuppressive) sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerides (SQDGs) are potential drug candidates. The present publication deals with the purification and structural characterization of SQDGs from three different strains of Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Besides detection of SQDGs (sn-1: C16:1/sn-2: C16:0 and sn-1: C20:5/sn-2: C16:0), two novel 2'-O-acylsulfoquinovosyldiacylglyerides (Ac-SQDGs, sn-1: C16:0/ sn-2: C16:0/2' C20:5 and sn-1: C20:5/sn-2: C16:0/2' C20:5) were identified by using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) QTrap time-of-flight (ToF) hybrid mass spectrometry (MS) with multistage MS(n). The analytical method enables the sn-position verification of fatty acids (MS(2)) as well as the confirmation of the regioposition of eicospentanoic acid at the sulfoquinovose (MS(3)).

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