A method has been presented for the simultaneous analysis of neurotoxin β-N-oxalyl-α, β-diaminopropionic acid (β-ODAP) and its non- or low-toxic isomer α-ODAP as well as other amino acids in Lathyrus sativus extracts after derivatization with para-nitrobenzyloxycarbonyl chloride (PNZ-Cl) by reversed-phase (C18 column) high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC). Detection limits of isomers were 0.08 μg/mL for both β-, α-ODAP, for homoarginine 0.09 μg/ mL at a signal-to-noise ratio of 3:1.
An assay is presented for simultaneously determining 5 biogenic amines and the major non-protein amino acids: the toxin β-N-oxalyl-L-α,β-diaminopropanoic acid (β-ODAP), its isomer α-ODAP and homoarginine in Lathyrus sativus extracts using the HPLC system after derivatization with para-nitrobenzyloxycarbonyl chloride (PNZ-Cl). However, it is more worthy of noting that this paper also describes a new extraction method using 0.2 mol/L HClO4. The new method has some advantages: shorter extraction-time, simultaneous extraction of free amino acids and polyamines, better inhibiting the isomerization of β-ODAP to α-ODAP, and so on.
