1. Stereoselective separation of underivatized and 6-aminoquinolyl-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl carbamate derivatized amino acids using zwitterionic quinine and quinidine type stationary phases by liquid chromatography-High resolution mass spectrometry.
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Horak J and Lämmerhofer M
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- Amino Acids chemistry, Aminoquinolines isolation & purification, Carbamates isolation & purification, Chemistry Techniques, Analytical instrumentation, Cinchona chemistry, Stereoisomerism, Amino Acids isolation & purification, Aminoquinolines chemistry, Carbamates chemistry, Chemistry Techniques, Analytical methods, Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid, Quinidine chemistry, Quinine chemistry, Tandem Mass Spectrometry
- Abstract
Amino acids play an important role in cellular processes and are building blocks for peptides and proteins, which take part in regulatory processes within each organism. Hence a large variety of biotechnologically or synthetically produced therapeutic drugs are peptides and proteins. Due to the chiral nature of amino acids and the large variety of common, uncommon and newly synthesized amino acid type compounds, stereoselective separation tools combined with mass spectrometric detection are important in research as well as purity control of therapeutics in industry. Since structural isomers and epimers of common amino acids are isobaric to each other, stereoselective separation is key to their identification. For this purpose zwitterionic quinine and quinidine type chiral stationary phases Chiralpak ZWIX(+) and Chiralpak ZWIX(-) were investigated for their separation performance for underivatized and 6-aminoquinolyl-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl carbamate (AQC; AccQ) derivatized proteinogenic amino acids, uncommon amino acids and their isobaric analogs such as allo-threonine, homoserine, allo-isoleucine and homocysteine by HPLC-ESI-QTOF-MS. Cystine and homocystine were reduced with dithiothreitol and S-alkylated with iodoacetic acid and iodoacetamide. In general, derivatization with AQC and thiol alkylation increased the detection sensitivity and resolution of acidic, basic and polar amino acids significantly (e.g. separation factor of Asp increased from 1.00 to 2.29 for Asp-AQC). In addition, throughout this study a u-
13 C15 N-L-amino acid metabolomics mixture was added to the DL-amino acid test solution and used as a co-eluting peak assignment standard to identify the corresponding u-12 C14 N-L-amino acid peak and hence determine the elution order of the enantiomer pairs for complex mixtures within a single run, employing the same separation conditions for underivatized and AQC-derivatized amino acids and their isobaric analogs., (Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)- Published
- 2019
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