Title
Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Activity of Aloe vera from the Pica Oasis (Tarapacá, Chile) by UHPLC-Q/Orbitrap/MS/MS
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Villalobos M.
Bórquez J.
Simirgiotis M.
Universidad Arturo Prat
Publisher(s)
Hindawi Limited
Abstract
The chemical composition of Aloe vera growing in the small town of San Andrés de Pica, an oasis of warm waters and typical fruits, located in Tamarugal province in the Northern Chilean region of Tarapacá is reported. The chemical characterization was performed using liquid chromatography (UHPLC) coupled to PDA and high-resolution mass spectrometry (HESI-Q-Orbitrap®-MS) in four different plant parts of Aloe (peel, flowers, gel, and roots). Twenty-five phenolic compounds were identified, including cinnamic acids and other derivatives (e.g., caffeic and chlorogenic acids), chromones (e.g., aloesin and isoaloeresin D), anthracene compounds and derivatives (e.g., aloin A/B and emodin), and several C-flavonoids (e.g., orientin and isovitexin), among others. Total antioxidant activity of the ethanolic extracts of the peels, flowers, gel, and roots was measured as the capturing of the DPPH• and ABTS•+ radicals, while the iron-reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) was measured by spectroscopic methods. The peel had the highest antioxidant activity with values of 2.43 mM ET/g MF (DPPH•), 34.32 mM ET/g MF (ABTS•+), and 3.82 mM ET/g MF (FRAP). According to our results, the peel is the best part of the plant for the production of nutraceuticals or cosmetics products for its greatest number of bioactive compounds. This is a new and innovative finding since the only part used in traditional medicine is the gel of Aloe, and the peel is generally considered waste and discarded.
Volume
2018
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química Protección y nutrición de las plantas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85059694894
Source
Journal of Chemistry
ISSN of the container
20909063
Sponsor(s)
Michael Villalobos thanks Universidad Arturo Prat for financing his undergraduate thesis and the Project “For-talecimiento de lineas” (VRIIP037-17 and VRIIP0123-18) Universidad Arturo Prat. Mario Simirgiotis and Jorge Bórquez thank Fondecyt (1180059) for financial support. We thank Dr. Luis Barrio of Arturo Prat University for his guidance in carrying out the statistical analysis of the research. We thank the teacher Gina Alberta Arancio Jofre from the University of La Serena (ULS) for her help in the identification and registration of the species of A. vera that was analyzed in this study. *e technical assistance of Alicia Valladares is gratefully acknowledged.
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