Monosaccharide composition analysis of immunomodulatory polysaccharides by on‐line hollow fiber microextraction with high‐performance liquid chromatography

The monosaccharide compositions of functional polysaccharides are essential for structure elucidation and biological activity determination. A sensitive method based on on-line hollow-fiber liquid-phase microextraction with high-performance liquid chromatography has been established for the analysis of ten monosaccharide compositions (two uronic acids, two amino sugars and six neutral sugars) of the immunomodulatory polysaccharides. After derivatization, the sample was injected into the lumen of a hollow fiber immersed in butyl ether and separated by liquid chromatography. Under optimized conditions, the calibration curves were linear (r ≥ 0.9996) in the range of 10-2000 μmol L(-1) . The limits of detection were in the range of 0.04-1.58 μmol L(-1) , and the recoveries were in the range of 92.1-99.6%, which shows that the method is applicable to the analysis of the monosaccharide composition of various polysaccharides.