Structural features of copigmentation of oenin with different polyphenol copigments

J Agric Food Chem. 2013 Jul 17;61(28):6942-8. doi: 10.1021/jf401174b. Epub 2013 Jul 5.

Abstract

The copigmentation binding constants (K) for the interaction of different copigments with oenin (major red wine anthocyanin) were determined. All tests were performed in a 12% ethanol citrate buffer solution (0.2 M) at pH 3.5, with an ionic strength adjusted to 0.5 M by the addition of sodium chloride. Over the past years, several copigmentation studies were made and many copigments were tested, but none of them included prodelphinidin B3 or a dimeric-type adduct like oenin-(O)-catechin, probably due to the difficulty in obtaining them. The data yielded from this study allowed concluding that (a) the presence of a pyrogallol group in the B ring of the flavan-3-ol structure slightly increases the copimentation potential and (b) within all copigments tested oenin-(O)-catechin was revealed to be the best. According to computational studies performed on epicatechin/oenin, epigallocatechin/oenin, procyanidin B3/oenin, and oenin-(O)-catechin/oenin complexes, the ΔGbinding energy of the oenin-(O)-catechin/oenin complex is the most negative compared to the other copigmentation complexes, hence being more stable and thermodynamically favored. All structural data show that oenin-(O)-catechin and epigallocatechin are closer to the pigment molecule, which is in accordance with these two copigments having the highest experimental copigmentation binding constants for oenin.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anthocyanins / chemistry*
  • Anthocyanins / metabolism*
  • Biflavonoids / chemistry
  • Biflavonoids / metabolism
  • Catechin / analogs & derivatives
  • Catechin / chemistry
  • Catechin / metabolism
  • Molecular Structure
  • Pigmentation
  • Pigments, Biological* / chemistry
  • Pigments, Biological* / metabolism
  • Polyphenols / chemistry*
  • Polyphenols / metabolism*
  • Proanthocyanidins / chemistry
  • Proanthocyanidins / metabolism
  • Thermodynamics
  • Wine / analysis*

Substances

  • Anthocyanins
  • Biflavonoids
  • Pigments, Biological
  • Polyphenols
  • Proanthocyanidins
  • procyanidin B3
  • Catechin
  • gallocatechol