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Wang Y, Wu S, Wu D, Shen J, Wei Y, Wang C. Amino bearing core-shell structured magnetic covalent organic framework nanospheres: Preparation, postsynthetic modification with phenylboronic acid and enrichment of monoamine neurotransmitters in human urine. Anal Chim Acta 2020; 1093:61-74. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2019.09.078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2019] [Revised: 09/26/2019] [Accepted: 09/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Nwabufo CK, El-Aneed A, Krol ES. Tandem mass spectrometric analysis of novel caffeine scaffold-based bifunctional compounds for Parkinson's disease. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2019; 33:1792-1803. [PMID: 31351020 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.8540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Revised: 07/19/2019] [Accepted: 07/20/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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RATIONALE Novel bifunctional compounds composed of a caffeine scaffold attached to nicotine (C8 -6-N), 1-aminoindan (C8 -6-I), or caffeine (C8 -6-C8 ) were designed as therapeutics or diagnostics for Parkinson's disease (PD). In order to probe their pharmacological and toxicological profile, an appropriate analytical method is required. The goal of this study is to establish a tandem mass spectrometric fingerprint for the development of quantitative and qualitative methods that will aid future assessment of the in vitro and in vivo absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion (ADME) and pharmacokinetic properties of these lead bifunctional compounds for PD. METHODS Accurate mass measurement was performed using a hybrid quadrupole orthogonal time-of-flight mass spectrometer while multistage MS/MS and MS3 analyses were conducted using a triple quadrupole linear ion trap mass spectrometer. Both instruments are equipped with an electrospray ionization (ESI) source and were operated in the positive ion mode. The source and compound parameters were optimized for all three tested bifunctional compounds. RESULTS The MS/MS analysis indicates that the fragmentation of C8 -6-N and C8 -6-I is driven by the dissociation of the nicotine and 1-aminoindan moieties, respectively, but not caffeine. A significant observation in the MS/MS fragmentation of C8 -6-C8 suggests that a previously reported loss of acetaldehyde during caffeine dissociation is instead a loss of CO2 . CONCLUSIONS The collision-induced tandem mass spectrometry (CID-MS/MS) analysis of these novel bifunctional compounds revealed compound-specific diagnostic product ions and neutral losses for all three tested bifunctional compounds. The established MS/MS fingerprint will be applied to the future development of qualitative and quantitative methods.
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- Chukwunonso K Nwabufo
- Drug Discovery and Development Research Group, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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- Drug Discovery and Development Research Group, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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- Drug Discovery and Development Research Group, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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A classification of liquid chromatography mass spectrometry techniques for evaluation of chemical composition and quality control of traditional medicines. J Chromatogr A 2019; 1609:460501. [PMID: 31515074 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2019.460501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2019] [Revised: 08/06/2019] [Accepted: 08/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Natural products (NPs) and traditional medicines (TMs) are used for treatment of various diseases and also to develop new drugs. However, identification of drug leads within the immense biodiversity of living organisms is a challenging task that requires considerable time, labor, and computational resources as well as the application of modern analytical instruments. LC-MS platforms are widely used for both drug discovery and quality control of TMs and food supplements. Moreover, a large dataset generated during LC-MS analysis contains valuable information that could be extracted and handled by means of various data mining and statistical tools. Novel sophisticated LC-MS based approaches are being introduced every year. Therefore, this review is prepared for the scientists specialized in pharmacognosy and analytical chemistry of NPs as well as working in related areas, in order to navigate them in the world of diverse LC-MS based techniques and strategies currently employed for NP discovery and dereplication, quality control, pattern recognition and sample comparison, and also in targeted and untargeted metabolomic studies. The suggested classification system includes the following LC-MS based procedures: elemental composition determination, isotopic fine structure analysis, mass defect filtering, de novo identification, clustering of the compounds in Molecular Networking (MN), diagnostic fragment ion (or neutral loss) filtering, manual dereplication using MS/MS data, database-assisted peak annotation, annotation of spectral trees, MS fingerprinting, feature extraction, bucketing of LC-MS data, peak profiling, predicted metabolite screening, targeted quantification of biomarkers, quantitative analysis of multi-component system, construction of chemical fingerprints, multi-targeted and untargeted metabolite profiling.
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Kecskeméti A, Bartal A, Bóka B, Kredics L, Manczinger L, Shine K, Alharby NS, Khaled JM, Varga M, Vágvölgyi C, Szekeres A. High-Frequency Occurrence of Surfactin Monomethyl Isoforms in the Ferment Broth of a Bacillus subtilis Strain Revealed by Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry. Molecules 2018; 23:molecules23092224. [PMID: 30200458 PMCID: PMC6225151 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23092224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2018] [Revised: 08/17/2018] [Accepted: 08/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Surfactins are cyclic lipopeptides consisting of a β-hydroxy fatty acid of various chain length and a peptide ring of seven amino acids linked together by a lactone bridge, forming the cyclic structure of the peptide chain. These compounds are produced mainly by Bacillus species and possess numerous biological effects such as antimicrobial (antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal) activities. A mixture of surfactins extracted from Bacillus subtilis strain SZMC 6179J was examined by HPLC-ESI-IT-MS technique, enhancing their separation to reveal novel lipopeptide varieties with higher masses and to characterize their structures. During the MS² spectra analyses of their sodiated molecular ions [M + Na]⁺, a previously rarely encountered group of surfactins was detected and two novel types of the group were discovered containing methyl esterified aspartic acid residue in their fifth amino acid position. The relative amounts of these monomethyl isoforms exceeded 35% of the produced surfactin in total. In the m/z value of 1114, all the detected isoforms possessed aspartic acid 4-methyl ester residue in their fifth amino acid position (C17-[Lxx4, AME5], C18-[AME5]), offering an opportunity to separate a pure fraction of the compound and to study its biological activities in the future.
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- Anita Kecskeméti
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
- Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
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Kurka O, Roithová J, Bednář P. Examination of small molecule losses in 5-methylpyranopelargonidin MS/MS CID spectra by DFT calculations. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2014; 49:1314-1321. [PMID: 25476950 DOI: 10.1002/jms.3466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2014] [Revised: 08/12/2014] [Accepted: 08/13/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Pyranoanthocyanins are formed during food treatment and maturation (e.g. wine, juices), and they can be considered a natural alternative to artificial food colorants. Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is perhaps the most important technique in analysis of anthocyanin dyes. Knowledge of fragmentation pattern is a key aspect of their successful structural characterization. Polyphenolic compounds are known to lose small molecules during collision-induced dissociation (CID) in MS/MS experiments. However, the specific positions where such losses occur preferentially are unknown. The aim of this communication is to investigate the energetically most preferred places for H2 O and CO losses during the fragmentation of 5-methylpyranopelargonidin molecule by the means of computational chemistry (employing density functional theory) combined with CID MS/MS experiments and infrared multiphoton dissociation spectroscopy. Mechanisms responsible for the fragmentations were investigated, and optimal geometries and transition states were obtained. Cleavage of water as well as carbon monoxide occurs preferentially from the C-ring of flavonoid skeleton. In the most stable structure of 5-methylpyranopelargonidin, B-ring was found to be tilted with respect to the rest of the molecule. Planarization effort of the parent molecule contributes both to its decarbonylation and dehydration.
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- Ondřej Kurka
- Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 12, 771 46, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Wright P, Alex A, Harvey S, Parsons T, Pullen F. Understanding collision-induced dissociation of dofetilide: a case study in the application of density functional theory as an aid to mass spectral interpretation. Analyst 2014; 138:6869-80. [PMID: 24071718 DOI: 10.1039/c3an01103h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Fragmentation of molecules under collision-induced dissociation (CID) conditions is not well-understood. This may make interpretation of MSMS spectra difficult and limit the effectiveness of software tools intended to aid mass spectral interpretation. Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been successfully applied to explain the thermodynamics of fragmentation in the gas phase by the modelling the effect that protonation has on the bond lengths (and hence bond strengths). In this study, dofetilide and four methylated analogues were used to investigate further the potential for using DFT to understand and predict the CID fragmentation routes. The products ions present in the CID spectra of all five compounds were consistent with charge-directed fragmentation, with protonation adjacent to the cleavage site being required to initiate fragmentation. Protonation at the dissociative site may have occurred either directly or via proton migration. A correlation was observed between protonation-induced bond lengthening and the bonds which were observed to break in the CID spectra. This correlation was quantitative in that the bonds calculated to elongate to the greatest extent gave rise to the most abundant of the major product ions. Thus such quantum calculations may offer the potential for contributing to a predictive tool for aiding the accuracy and speed mass spectral interpretation by generating numerical data in the form of bond length increases to act as descriptors flagging potential bond cleavages.
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- Patricia Wright
- School of Science, University of Greenwich, Medway Campus, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4TB, UK.
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Stolić I, Bratoš I, Kovačević G, Bajić M. Fragmentation of diamide derivatives of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2012; 26:1023-1031. [PMID: 22467451 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The sequential product ion (MS(n)) fragmentation of four symmetric diamide derivatives of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene were characterized using ion trap mass spectrometry with electrospray ionization and their fragmentation patterns were studied. The experimental data consists of mass spectra obtained by tandem mass spectrometry, and calculations were obtained by the M06-2X/6-31 G (d,p) method. Investigated compounds represent building blocks in synthesis of compounds used in different areas of chemistry and industry such as in medicinal chemistry, as potential anticancer and anticonvulsant agents, in organic chemistry as linkers for solid-phase synthesis, and in the synthesis of a variety of materials in polymer chemistry. We present herein the investigation of the fragmentation pathway of protonated diamide derivatives of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene that involves the identification of fragments, influence of proton transfer on direction of fragmentation and mechanisms of reactions by which the fragmentation process occurs. Data obtained from product ion spectra of these protonated compounds and density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicate that the fragmentation process takes place via four main reactions: amido-iminol proton transfer, reverse cycloaddition, cleavage of the amide bond, and isocyanic acid elimination. The 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene-2,5-dicarboxamide was observed as an intermediate in the fragmentation of its alkyl derivatives. To our knowledge, this work brings the first correct description of the mechanism of elimination of isocyanic acid.
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- Ivana Stolić
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Heinzelova 55, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
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Urinary profile of methylprednisolone acetate metabolites in patients following intra-articular and intramuscular administration. Anal Bioanal Chem 2011; 400:255-67. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-011-4744-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2010] [Revised: 01/19/2011] [Accepted: 01/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Lagutschenkov A, Langer J, Berden G, Oomens J, Dopfer O. Infrared spectra of protonated neurotransmitters: dopamine. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2011; 13:2815-23. [DOI: 10.1039/c0cp02133d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Rasche F, Svatoš A, Maddula RK, Böttcher C, Böcker S. Computing Fragmentation Trees from Tandem Mass Spectrometry Data. Anal Chem 2010; 83:1243-51. [DOI: 10.1021/ac101825k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Florian Rasche
- Chair for Bioinformatics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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- Research Group Mass Spectrometry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 8, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Research Group Mass Spectrometry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 8, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Stress and Developmental Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Weinberg 3, D-06120 Halle, Germany
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- Chair for Bioinformatics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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Kind T, Fiehn O. Advances in structure elucidation of small molecules using mass spectrometry. BIOANALYTICAL REVIEWS 2010; 2:23-60. [PMID: 21289855 PMCID: PMC3015162 DOI: 10.1007/s12566-010-0015-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 303] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2010] [Accepted: 08/03/2010] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The structural elucidation of small molecules using mass spectrometry plays an important role in modern life sciences and bioanalytical approaches. This review covers different soft and hard ionization techniques and figures of merit for modern mass spectrometers, such as mass resolving power, mass accuracy, isotopic abundance accuracy, accurate mass multiple-stage MS(n) capability, as well as hybrid mass spectrometric and orthogonal chromatographic approaches. The latter part discusses mass spectral data handling strategies, which includes background and noise subtraction, adduct formation and detection, charge state determination, accurate mass measurements, elemental composition determinations, and complex data-dependent setups with ion maps and ion trees. The importance of mass spectral library search algorithms for tandem mass spectra and multiple-stage MS(n) mass spectra as well as mass spectral tree libraries that combine multiple-stage mass spectra are outlined. The successive chapter discusses mass spectral fragmentation pathways, biotransformation reactions and drug metabolism studies, the mass spectral simulation and generation of in silico mass spectra, expert systems for mass spectral interpretation, and the use of computational chemistry to explain gas-phase phenomena. A single chapter discusses data handling for hyphenated approaches including mass spectral deconvolution for clean mass spectra, cheminformatics approaches and structure retention relationships, and retention index predictions for gas and liquid chromatography. The last section reviews the current state of electronic data sharing of mass spectra and discusses the importance of software development for the advancement of structure elucidation of small molecules. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s12566-010-0015-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Tobias Kind
- Genome Center–Metabolomics, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
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- Genome Center–Metabolomics, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
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Lagutschenkov A, Langer J, Berden G, Oomens J, Dopfer O. Infrared Spectra of Protonated Neurotransmitters: Serotonin. J Phys Chem A 2010; 114:13268-76. [DOI: 10.1021/jp109337a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Anita Lagutschenkov
- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany, FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, Edisonbaan 14, 3439 MN Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, and University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098XH, The Netherlands
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- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany, FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, Edisonbaan 14, 3439 MN Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, and University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098XH, The Netherlands
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- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany, FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, Edisonbaan 14, 3439 MN Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, and University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098XH, The Netherlands
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- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany, FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, Edisonbaan 14, 3439 MN Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, and University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098XH, The Netherlands
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- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany, FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, Edisonbaan 14, 3439 MN Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, and University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098XH, The Netherlands
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Basic rules for the interpretation of atmospheric pressure ionization mass spectra of small molecules. J Chromatogr A 2010; 1217:3908-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2010.02.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2009] [Revised: 02/17/2010] [Accepted: 02/22/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Wright P, Alex A, Nyaruwata T, Parsons T, Pullen F. Using density functional theory to rationalise the mass spectral fragmentation of maraviroc and its metabolites. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2010; 24:1025-1031. [PMID: 20213631 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.4458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is widely used for the identification of metabolites at all stages of the pharmaceutical discovery and development process. The assignment of ions in the product ion spectra can be time-consuming and hence delay feedback of results that may influence the direction of a project. A deeper understanding of the processes involved in generation of the product ions formed via collision-induced dissociation may allow development of chemically intelligent software to aid spectral interpretation. Current commercially available spectral interpretation software takes a mainly arithmetical approach resulting in extensive lists of numerically plausible ions, many of which may not be chemically feasible. In this study, high-resolution MS/MS spectra were obtained for maraviroc and two of its synthetic metabolites, and structures for the product ions proposed. Density functional theory (DFT) based on in silico modelling was undertaken to investigate whether the fragmentation observed was potentially a result of bond lengthening (and hence weakening) as a consequence of protonation of the molecule at the most thermodynamically stable site(s). It was determined that for all three compounds, where the product ions resulted from simple bond cleavages (not rearrangements), the bonds that cleaved had been calculated to elongate after protonation. It was also noted that the protonated molecule may represent a mixture of singly charged protonated species and that the most basic sites in the molecule may not necessarily be the most thermodynamically stable for protonation.
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- Patricia Wright
- Department of Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Metabolism, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Sandwich CT13 9NJ1, UK.
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Hammad LA, Neely M, Bridge B, Mechref Y. Fast liquid chromatography separation and multiple-reaction monitoring mass spectrometric detection of neurotransmitters. J Sep Sci 2009; 32:2369-76. [PMID: 19569096 DOI: 10.1002/jssc.200900158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We describe here the fast LC-MS/MS separation of a mixture of neurotransmitters consisting of dopamine, epinephrine, norepinephrine, 3,4-dihydroxybenzylamine (DHBA), salsolinol, serotonin, and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). The new UltiMate 3000 Rapid Separation system (RSLC) was successfully coupled to the 4000 QTRAP mass spectrometer operating in multiple-reaction monitoring (MRM) mode. The separation was attained using a 100 mm length, 2.2 microm particle size Acclaim column at a flow rate of 0.5 mL/min. The column back pressure was 350 bar, while the total run time including column re-equilibration was 5.2 min. The peak resolution was minimally affected by the fast separation. The RSLC-MRM separation was found to have a precision range based on peak area for 50 replicate runs of 2-5% CV for all analytes, and the reproducibility of the retention time for all analytes was found to range from 0-2% CV. The described method represents an almost seven times shorter analysis time of neurotransmitters using LC/MRM which is very useful in screening large quantities of biological samples for various neurotransmitters.
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- Loubna A Hammad
- METACyt Biochemical Analysis Center, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA
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