HPLC fucoxanthin profiles of a microalga, a macroalga and a pure fucoxanthin standard

Su Chern Foo; Fatimah Md Yusoff; Maznah Ismail; Mahiran Basri; Sook Kun Yau; Nicholas M H Khong; Kim Wei Chan; Mahdi Ebrahimi

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.12.047

HPLC fucoxanthin profiles of a microalga, a macroalga and a pure fucoxanthin standard

Data Brief. 2016 Dec 29:10:583-586. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.12.047. eCollection 2017 Feb.

Authors

Su Chern Foo¹, Fatimah Md Yusoff², Maznah Ismail¹, Mahiran Basri³, Sook Kun Yau¹, Nicholas M H Khong¹, Kim Wei Chan¹, Mahdi Ebrahimi⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
² Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia; Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
³ Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia; Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
⁴ Department of Veterinary Preclinical Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.

Abstract

Data in this article illustrate representative fucoxanthin chromatograms of a microalga, Chaetoceros calcitrans; a macroalga, Saccharina japonica and; a pure fucoxanthin standard. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) eluted fucoxanthin at the 7.008±0.024th min. This data article refers to the research article ''Antioxidant capacities of fucoxanthin-producing algae as influenced by their carotenoid and phenolic contents'' Foo et al. [1]; where a more comprehensive data interpretation and analysis is explained.

Keywords: Carotenoids; Fucoxanthin; High performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC); Macroalgae; Microalgae.