ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:To determine the content of 17 amino acid in sarcocarp of northeast Empetrum nigrum simultaneous-ly. METHODS:HPLC-ELSD method was adopted. The determination was performed on Waters Symmetry C18 column with mobile phase consisted of 5.0 mmol/L heptafluorobutyric acid solution(containing 0.7% trifluoroacetic acid)-acetonitrile(gradient elution) at the flow rate of 2.0 L/min,the column temperature was 37 ℃,the drift tube temperature was set at 60 ℃. RESULTS:The line-ar ranges of glycine,serine,aminosuccinic acid,aminopropionic acid,threonine,glutamic acid,cystinol,diaminocaproic acid, histidine,arginine,proline,valine,methionine,oxyphenylaminopropionic acid,isoleucine,aminocaproic acid,phenylalanine were 0.0059-0.1877,0.0082-0.2628,0.0104-0.3328,0.0070-0.2227,0.0093-0.2978,0.0115-0.3678,0.0094-0.3004,0.0114-0.3655,0.0121-0.3880,0.0136-0.4355,0.0090-0.2878,0.0092-0.2930,0.0117-0.3730,0.0142-0.4530,0.0103-0.3280, 0.0103-0.3280 and 0.0129-0.4130 mg/mL(all r>0.9990). RSDs of precision,stability and repeatability tests were not all less than 2.0%. Recoveries were 98.0%-101.2%(RSD<2.0%,n=6). CONCLUSIONS:This method is simple,precision,stable and repeatable,and can be used for simultaneous determination of 17 amino acid in sarcocarp of northeast E. nigrum.