title: Preliminary study on the determination of selenium compounds in some selenium-accumulating mushrooms.
abstract: Using various chromatographic techniques (size exclusion, anion exchange, and cation exchange) combined with several detectors (neutron activation analysis and atomic fluorescence spectrometry), an attempt was made to characterize selenium compounds in some edible, selenium-accumulating mushrooms (Albatrellus pes-caprae and Boletus edulis). The mushrooms contained mostly low-molecular-weight (6 kDa) selenium compounds. After proteolysis, only a small fraction of the extractable selenium could be identified as selenite (3.0-9.2%, Albatrellus pes-caprae), selenocystine (minor, Albatrellus pes-caprae; 7.5%, Boletus edulis), or selenomethionine (1.0%, Boletus edulis), leaving the form of the bulk still to be elucidated.
authors.affiliation: Interfaculty Reactor Institute, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Slejkovec
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: van Elteren
authors.forename: U D
authors.initials: UD
authors.lastname: Woroniecka
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Kroon
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Falnoga
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Byrne
mesh_terms: D000363:Agaricales / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D003553:Cystine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000032:analysis; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D009501:Neutron Activation Analysis; D016566:Organoselenium Compounds / Q000032:analysis; D064586:Selenic Acid; D012643:Selenium / Q000378:metabolism*; D018036:Selenium Compounds / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry*; D012645:Selenomethionine / Q000032:analysis; D018038:Sodium Selenite / Q000032:analysis; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D016566:Organoselenium Compounds; D018036:Selenium Compounds; C009226:selenocystine; D003553:Cystine; D012645:Selenomethionine; D012643:Selenium; D018038:Sodium Selenite; D064586:Selenic Acid