Identification of Ubiquinones in Honey: A New View on Their Potential Contribution to Honey’s Antioxidant State
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Abstract
Honey is composed of macromolecules arranged into multicomponent colloidal particles dispersed in a supersaturated sugar solution. The core part of colloidal particles in honey is made up of high-molecular weight protein-polyphenol complexes. We designed a multi-step extraction process to gain better insight into the phenolic compounds strongly bound to proteins in honey. Honeys were sequentially extracted by solvents of reduced polarities and the extraction process was monitored by LC-ESI-MS/MS. Unexpectedly, the results revealed ubiquinone-like compounds that partitioned to both, soluble supernatants and protein-bound insoluble residues from which they were released after the pronase-digestion of proteins. The accurate mass measurement and MS/MS fragmentation patterns using UPHLC-MS/MS coupled to quadrupole orbitrap confirmed their identification as ubiquinones. Distribution of ubiquinone-bound proteins was further investigated by the fractionation of honey protein-polyphenol complexes by size-exclusion chromatography followed by LC-ESI-MS analysis. Mass spectra revealed the presence of ubiquinones (UQs) in fractions of high polyphenol to protein ratio. The dominant mass peaks observed in these fractions were identified as UQ-3, UQ-5, and UQ-7. Since the quinone group of UQs is involved in redox reaction, we discuss the possibility that UQs may contribute to the antioxidant/proxidant activity of these complexes.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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