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Variation in fatty acid composition of Artemia salina nauplii enriched with microalgae and baker's yeast for use in larviculture
Chakraborty, Rekha D.,Chakraborty, Kajal,Radhakrishnan
, p. 4043 - 4051 (2007)
The high content of the essential fatty acids in some microalgae and baker's yeast has made them excellent diets for boosting the fatty acid content of livefood Artemia. The influences of baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and three microalgae, viz., Chlorella salina, Chaetoceros calcitrans, and Nannochloropsis salina, were tested as diet components in marine livefeed brine shrimp Artemia salina nauplii to improve the polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) composition. Artemia nauplii submerged in these diets for four different enrichment intervals (3, 6, 8, and 24 h) were found to incorporate essential fatty acids, and the percentage composition of different fatty acids was measured in the enriched Artemia nauplii and enrichment diets. N. salina produced higher levels of arachidonic acid (AA, 20:4n6, 9.50%), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5n3, 25.80%), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6n3, 4.18%) as compared to other diets. The total PUFA content of the enriched Artemia by N. salina increased by 56.50% with enrichment periods up to 8 h, followed by a significant reduction in the final 24 h. N. salina yielded Artemia nauplii with considerable EPA (8.05%), AA (14.15%), and DHA (1.85%) after 8 h of enrichment, which are significantly higher levels than in nauplii fed with the other three diets (p = 0.05). The DHA/EPA values in Artemia enriched for 6 h by N. salina and C. calcitrans were found to be, respectively, 88.46 and 25% higher than freshly hatched Artemia. Artemia enriched by C. salina and baker's yeast exhibited a reduction in PUFA content even at 6 h of enrichment. Significant relative decreases in DHA, EPA, and total PUFA in Artemia enriched with all of the diets were apparent, with a corresponding increase in the total saturated fatty acid content (26.95 ± 9.75%) in the final stages (24 h) of enrichment (p = 0.05).
Eicosapentaenoic acid enrichment from sardine oil by argentation chromatography
Chakraborty, Kajal,Raj, R. Paul
, p. 7586 - 7595 (2008/09/19)
Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) derived from chemically hydrolyzed sardine oil was concentrated by urea fractionation using methanol at different temperatures (2, 4, and 6°C) and urea/fatty acid ratios (2:1, 3:1, and 4:1 w/w) and purified by argentation neutral alumina column chromatography. The individual fatty acids were determined as fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) by gas-liquid chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy as FAME and N-acyl pyrrolidides. In the mass fragmentation pattern of FAME, the base peak was assigned to be the 1-methoxyethenol moiety (m/z = 74) obtained by McLafferty rearrangement. Formation of the cyclic tropylium ion (m/z = 91) in fatty acids with four or more double bonds was apparent in FAME-PUFAs. The base peak of N-acyl pyrrolidides was the McLafferty rearrangement ion, 1-(pyrrolidin-1-yl) ethenol (m/z = 113). The highest concentration of EPA (47.78%) was obtained at the crystallization temperature of 4°C with a urea/fatty acid ratio of 4:1 (w/w) with 93.74% yield. After complexation of saturated and less unsaturated fatty acids by urea complexation, argentation chromatography resulted in an EPA of high purity (99.6%) with an overall recovery of 54.09% using 50% diethyl ether/n-hexane as eluting solvent. The peroxide (POV) and thiobarbituric acid (TBS) values were found to be highest (4.0 mequiv of O2/kg and 5.2 mg of malondialdehyde/kg, respectively) during urea fractionation at the higher crystallization temperature (6°C) and higher urea/fatty acid ratio (4:1).
