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Abstract
Dietary purine restrictions are recommended for patients with hyperuricemia and gout. While measuring the purine contents of various foods in our laboratory using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), we observed and reported changes in purine composition. In this study, we measured the total purine content and free purine of raw anchovies as well as after fermentation, using two methods by HPLC. Method 1 involved acid hydrolysis of all purines, such as nucleic acids and nucleotides, to form four corresponding purine bases. Method 2, which is a non-hydrolysis method, is used to measure the amount of free purines (nucleotide, nucleoside, purine base). As a result of method 1, after fermentation, adenine-related and hypoxanthine-related purines and the total purine levels decreased significantly. Regardless of being raw or fermented, each anchovy contained mainly hypoxanthine- and guanine-related purines. Among the hypoxanthine-related purines, the results of method 2 revealed that the raw anchovies contained a lot of inosine monophosphate (IMP), while after fermentation contained more inosine. In guanine-related and adenine-related purines, those nucleotides decreased by fermentation and nucleosides and bases increased. Measurements of free purines revealed that those reductions after fermentation observed in method 1 were derived from decreased nucleotides. These results indicate that purines are affected by the fermentation bacteria and period.
Acknowledgment
The authors would like to thank Yaizu Fisheries Chemical Co., Ltd. for providing fresh anchovies, which were difficult to obtain on the market.
Disclosure statement
The authors have no conflicts of interest directly relevant to the content of this article.