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Ultra‐performance LC/TOF MS analysis of medicinal Panax herbs for metabolomic research
Author(s) -
Xie Guoxiang,
Plumb Robert,
Su Mingming,
Xu Zhaohui,
Zhao Aihua,
Qiu Mingfeng,
Long Xiangbao,
Liu Zhong,
Jia Wei
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of separation science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.72
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1615-9314
pISSN - 1615-9306
DOI - 10.1002/jssc.200700650
Subject(s) - panax notoginseng , ginseng , traditional medicine , chemistry , araliaceae , quadrupole time of flight , medicinal herbs , metabolomics , metabolite , ginsenoside , chromatography , mass spectrometry , tandem mass spectrometry , medicine , biochemistry , alternative medicine , pathology
In this study, metabolite profiling of five medicinal Panax herbs including Panax ginseng (Chinese ginseng), Panax notoginseng (Sanchi), Panax japonicus (Rhizoma Panacis Majoris), Panax quinquefolium L. (American ginseng), and P. ginseng (Korean ginseng) were performed using ultra‐performance LC‐quadrupole TOF MS (UPLC‐QTOFMS) and multivariate statistical analysis technique. Principal component analysis (PCA) of the analytical data showed that the five Panax herbs could be separated into five different groups of phytochemicals. The chemical markers such as ginsenoside Rf, 20(S)‐pseudoginsenoside F11, malonyl gisenoside Rb1, and gisenoside Rb2 accountable for such variations were identified through the loadings plot of PCA, and were identified tentatively by the accurate mass of TOFMS and partially verified by the available reference standards. Results from this study indicate that the proposed method is reliable for the rapid analysis of a group of metabolites present in herbal medicines and other natural products and applicable in the differentiation of complex samples that share similar chemical ingredients.