title: Precolumn phenylisothiocyanate derivatization and liquid chromatography of amino acids in food.
abstract: A precolumn phenylisothiocyanate derivatization method is described for the determination of amino acids in protein hydrolysates from a wide variety of complex food matrixes, with and without performic acid oxidation pretreatment. Analysis of samples that were not pretreated with performic acid was necessary since this pretreatment destroyed an average of 25% of the histidine and 87% of the tyrosine present in the food samples. This method is rapid and reproducible; coefficients of variation between duplicate analyses of the same food item were less than 5% for a majority of the amino acids. Occasionally, variation between duplicate analyses for histidine and tyrosine was greater than 10%. Recoveries of amino acids added to samples were in the 100% range.
authors.affiliation: University of Idaho, Department of Bacteriology and Biochemistry, Moscow, ID 83843.
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Hagen
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Frost
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Augustin
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis*; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid; D003553:Cystine / Q000032:analysis; D005504:Food Analysis; D005561:Formates; D006868:Hydrolysis; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D017879:Isothiocyanates; D008460:Meat / Q000032:analysis; D008715:Methionine / Q000032:analysis; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D013861:Thiocyanates; D014908:Triticum / Q000032:analysis; D014675:Vegetables / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D005561:Formates; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D017879:Isothiocyanates; D013861:Thiocyanates; C005441:phenylisothiocyanate; C008817:peroxyformic acid; D003553:Cystine; D008715:Methionine