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Yang JY, Xie MC, Tan XC, Tian YX, Wang H, Xu ZL, Yuan TT, Xiao YM, Shen YD. Improved molecular softness of tadalafil hapten enhancing antibody performance in immunoassay: Evidence from computational chemistry. J Food Sci 2022; 87:1342-1354. [PMID: 35166370 DOI: 10.1111/1750-3841.16078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2021] [Revised: 01/08/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
The tadalafil-like compounds have appeared recently as adulterants in drinks and healthcare dietary supplements sourced from medicinal and edible food, which may cause illness and even death. In this work, the rationality of haptens was explored by computational chemistry and molecular simulation theories such as frontier molecular orbital (FMO)-based softness (S), three-dimensional (3D) structure, surface electrostatic potential (ESP), and lipophilic potential (LP). An antiserum from hapten H5 with the highest softness and maintaining the appropriate three-dimensional (3D) structure showed the optimal immunoassay performance, indicating an increasing softness was a critical factor for effective hapten. Based on the antibody induced by hapten H5, an indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (icELISA) method for detecting multiple tadalafil-like adulterants was established. The icELISA showed a limit of detection (LOD), 50% inhibition concentration (IC50 ), and a working range of 0.004-0.396, 0.89-4.27, and 0.094-16.71 ng/ml for tadalafil, amino tadalafil, acetamino tadalafil, nortadalafil, and N-desmethyl ent-tadalafil, respectively. The spiked recoveries of tadalafil-like adulterants in samples ranged from 84.9% to 116.2%. The results of the icELISA and HPLC-MS/MS methods had a good correlation for real samples with the R2 of 0.9955. Specially, this work not only provided a convenient immunoassay method for measuring tadalafil-like adulterants in spirit drinks and dietary supplements in group-screening manner, but also suggested that softness was likely to be a general theory for rational hapten design. PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Rapid monitoring of tadalafil-like adulterants in food samples is very necessary and important for consumers, regulatory agencies, and the food industry.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jin-Yi Yang
- College of Food Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
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- College of Food Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Nanning, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- College of Food Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
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- College of Food Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
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- Shenzhen Care-green Agriculture Products Testing & Certification Co. Ltd., Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Care-green Agriculture Products Testing & Certification Co. Ltd., Shenzhen, China
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- College of Food Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
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Theoretical study of Au 4 thymine, Au 20 and Ag 20 uracil and thymine complexes for surface enhanced Raman scattering. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2017.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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