marine drugs Article Metabolite Profiling of the Microalgal Diatom Chaetoceros Calcitrans and Correlation with Antioxidant and Nitric Oxide Inhibitory Activities via 1H NMR-Based Metabolomics Awanis Azizan 1, Muhammad Safwan Ahamad Bustamam 1, M. Maulidiani 1, Khozirah Shaari 1,2, Intan Safinar Ismail 1,2, Norio Nagao 3 and Faridah Abas 1,4,* ID 1 Laboratory of Natural Products, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +603-8946-8343 Received: 13 April 2018; Accepted: 3 May 2018; Published: 7 May 2018 Abstract: Microalgae are promising candidate resources from marine ecology for health-improving effects. Metabolite profiling of the microalgal diatom, Chaetoceros calcitrans was conducted by using robust metabolomics tools, namely 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy coupled with multivariate data analysis (MVDA). The unsupervised data analysis, using principal component analysis (PCA), resolved the five types of extracts made by solvents ranging from polar to non-polar into five different clusters. Collectively, with various extraction solvents, 11 amino acids, cholesterol, 6 fatty acids, 2 sugars, 1 osmolyte, 6 carotenoids and 2 chlorophyll pigments were identified.