Journal Article

Characteristic Volatile Composition of Seven Seaweeds from the Yellow Sea of China

Liu, Hongbing, Wang, Pengrui, Chen, Jiapeng, Shi, Li, Chen, Lujing

2021

Overview

Plant volatile organic compounds (VOCs) represent a relatively wide class of secondary metabolites. The VOC profiles of seven seaweeds (Grateloupia filicina, Polysiphonia senticulosa, Callithamnion corymbosum, Sargassum thunbergii, Dictyota dichotoma, Enteromorpha prolifera and Ulva lactuca) from the Yellow Sea of China were investigated using multifiber headspace solid phase microextraction coupled with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (HS-SPME/GC–MS), among them, the VOCs of three red algae Grateloupia filicina, Polysiphonia senticulosa, and Callithamnion corymbosum were first reported. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to disclose characteristic categories and molecules of VOCs and network pharmacology was performed to predict potential biomedical utilization of candidate seaweeds. Aldehyde was found to be the most abundant VOC category in the present study and (E)-β-ionone was the only compound found to exist in all seven seaweeds. The chemical diversity of aldehydes in E. prolifera suggest its potential application in chemotaxonomy and hinted that divinylbenzene/carboxen/polydimethylsiloxane (DVB/CAR/PDMS) fiber is more suitable for aldehyde extraction. VOCs in D. dichotoma were characterized as sesquiterpenes and diterpenes and the most relevant pharmacological pathway was the neuroactive ligand–receptor interaction pathway, which suggests that D. dichotoma may have certain preventive and therapeutic values in cancer, especially in lung cancer, in addition to neuropsychiatric diseases.

• Publisher: MDPI AG,MDPI
• Subject: Abiotic stress / Alcohol / Aldehydes / Algae / biomedical utilization / Callithamnion / Callithamnion corymbosum / Cancer / characteristic VOCs / Chemical composition / Chemotaxonomy / China / Dictyota dichotoma / diterpenoids / Divinylbenzene / Gas chromatography / gas chromatography-mass spectrometry / Grateloupia / Grateloupia filicina / Headspace / headspace solid phase microextraction / Ionone / Lung cancer / lung neoplasms / Mass spectrometry / Mass spectroscopy / Mental disorders / Metabolism / Metabolites / Organic compounds / Pharmacology / Polydimethylsiloxane / Polysiphonia / principal component analysis / Principal components analysis / Receptors / Sargassum thunbergii / Seaweeds / Secondary metabolites / Sesquiterpenes / sesquiterpenoids / Solid phase methods / solid phase microextraction / Solid phases / therapeutics / Ulva lactuca / Ulva prolifera / VOCs / Volatile organic compounds / Yellow Sea