Haemmerle, Michael; Le, Minh Hien; Hekmat, Omid published the artcile< GC-FID-based quantification of the sum of the three forms of vitamin B3 from animal liver>, Reference of 93-60-7, the main research area is gas chromatog flame ionization detector vitamin B3 liver; Flame ionization detection; Gas chromatography; Nicotinamide; Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; Nicotinic acid; Vitamin B(3).
Vitamin B3 (nicotinic acid, nicotinamide) is an essential water-soluble vitamin and cellular energy metabolism depends on the vitamin B3-derived cofactors. Inaccessible covalently-linked nicotinic acid in food such as maize can cause vitamin B3 deficiency in animals since maize is also deficient in tryptophan, the precursor of nicotinic acid. A sensitive and reproducible GC-FID-based method for the quantification of the sum of the three forms of vitamin B3 from animal liver was developed. Free nicotinic acid, free nicotinamide and nicotinamide moiety of NAD+/NADP+ (and their riboside precursors) were simultaneously derivatized as Me nicotinate. Reaction time and temperature and the extraction procedure for Me nicotinate were optimized. Starting from wild boar liver, removal of proteins, solvent exchange, derivatization, and chloroform extraction resulted in sufficient enrichment and baseline separation of Me nicotinate. The within-laboratory reproducibility of the full procedure was determined with relative standard deviation <10%. On-column limit of detection and lower limit of quantification for Me nicotinate were both sub-picomole. The accuracy of the method was determined from the recoveries of the pre-extraction spiked-in vitamin B3 standards The overall recovery for the full procedure was 16% but very consistent (relative standard deviation = 7%), enabling determination of apparent vitamin B3 concentrations for relative quant. comparison. Analytical Biochemistry published new progress about Esterification (methyl-). 93-60-7 belongs to class pyridine-derivatives, and the molecular formula is C7H7NO2, Reference of 93-60-7.