Extraction with hot water is the oldest and simplest method used to recover pectin from an alcohol insoluble residue extract, although this method has not been widely used for the cell wall analysis of pollen tube, a model used to study cell wall. This protocol described this method applied for pectin extraction from 6 h-old Arabidopsis pollen tubes followed by a sugar composition analysis by gas chromatography mass spectrometry.
Arabidopsis pollen germination medium (see Recipes)
Trifluoroacetic acid (2 N) (see Recipes)
Equipment
Inverted microscope Olympus CK2
Centrifuge Allegra® X-15R Beckmann Coulter
Hot-water bath (70 °C and 90 °C)
40-ml glass potter homogenizer
Freeze-dryer
Incubator (22 °C, 80 °C and 110 °C)
Sample concentrator under air flow (Techne, catalog number: FSC400D )
GC-EI-MS instrument is composed of a Zebron Z5-MSi (30 m, 0.25 mm id, 0.25 µm film thickness, Phenomenex) capillary column for chromatographic separations, a Hewlett-Packard 6890 series gas chromatograph coupled to an Autospec mass spectrometer of EBE geometry (Micromass, Manchester, UK) equipped with a Opus 3.1 data system
Dumont, M., Lehner, A., Loutelier-Bourhis, C., Mollet, J. and Lerouge, P. (2015). Analysis of Sugar Component of a Hot Water Extract from Arabidopsis thaliana Pollen Tubes Using GC-EI-MS. Bio-protocol 5(12): e1503. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.1503.