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Isolation and Purification of Two Isoflavones from Hericium erinaceum Mycelium by High-Speed Counter-Current
Jinzhe He1, Peng Fan2, Simin Feng3
1Department of Food Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, Zhejiang, China. hejzgd@163.com.
Abstract:
High-speed counter-current chromatography (HSCCC) was used to separate and purify two isoflavones for the first time from Hericium erinaceum (H. erinaceum) mycelium using a two-phase solvent system composed of chloroform-dichloromethane-methanol-water (4:2:3:2, v/v/v/v). These two isoflavones were identified as genistein (4',5,7-trihydroxyisoflavone, C15H10O₅) and daidzein (4',7-dihydroxyisoflavone, C15H10O₄), using infrared spectroscopy (IR), electro-spary ionisation mass (ESI-MS), ¹H-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and 13C-NMR spectra. About 23 mg genistein with 95.7% purity and 18 mg daidzein with 97.3% purity were isolated from 150 mg ethanolic extract of H. erinaceum mycelium. The results demonstrated that HSCCC was a feasible method to separate and purify genistein and daidzein from H. erinaceum mycelium.
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