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Grooms AJ, Burris BJ, Badu-Tawiah AK. Mass spectrometry for metabolomics analysis: Applications in neonatal and cancer screening. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2024; 43:683-712. [PMID: 36524560 PMCID: PMC10272294 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Revised: 11/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Chemical analysis by analytical instrumentation has played a major role in disease diagnosis, which is a necessary step for disease treatment. While the treatment process often targets specific organs or compounds, the diagnostic step can occur through various means, including physical or chemical examination. Chemically, the genome may be evaluated to give information about potential genetic outcomes, the transcriptome to provide information about expression actively occurring, the proteome to offer insight on functions causing metabolite expression, or the metabolome to provide a picture of both past and ongoing physiological function in the body. Mass spectrometry (MS) has been elevated among other analytical instrumentation because it can be used to evaluate all four biological machineries of the body. In addition, MS provides enhanced sensitivity, selectivity, versatility, and speed for rapid turnaround time, qualities that are important for instance in clinical procedures involving the diagnosis of a pediatric patient in intensive care or a cancer patient undergoing surgery. In this review, we provide a summary of the use of MS to evaluate biomarkers for newborn screening and cancer diagnosis. As many reviews have recently appeared focusing on MS methods and instrumentation for metabolite analysis, we sought to describe the biological basis for many metabolomic and additional omics biomarkers used in newborn screening and how tandem MS methods have recently been applied, in comparison to traditional methods. Similar comparison is done for cancer screening, with emphasis on emerging MS approaches that allow biological fluids, tissues, and breath to be analyzed for the presence of diagnostic metabolites yielding insight for treatment options based on the understanding of prior and current physiological functions of the body.
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- Alexander J Grooms
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Ohio, Columbus, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Ohio, Columbus, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Ohio, Columbus, USA
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Gebretsadik H, Kahsay G, Adams E, Van Schepdael A. A comprehensive review of capillary electrophoresis-based techniques for erythropoietin isoforms analysis. J Chromatogr A 2023; 1708:464331. [PMID: 37660565 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2023.464331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Revised: 08/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023]
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Different CE techniques have been used to analyze erythropoietin. These techniques have been shown to be effective in differentiating and quantifying erythropoietin isoforms, including natural and recombinant origins. This review provides a comprehensive overview of various capillary electrophoresis-based techniques used for the analysis of erythropoietin isoforms. The importance of erythropoietin in clinical practice and the necessity for the accurate analysis of its isoforms are first discussed. Various techniques that have been used for erythropoietin isoform analysis are then described. The main body of the review focuses on the different capillary electrophoresis-based methods that have been developed for erythropoietin isoform analysis, including capillary zone electrophoresis and capillary isoelectric focusing. The advantages and drawbacks of each method as well as their applications are discussed. Suggestions into the future directions of the area are also described.
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- Hailekiros Gebretsadik
- KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Herestraat 49, O&N2, PB 923, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Herestraat 49, O&N2, PB 923, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Herestraat 49, O&N2, PB 923, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Herestraat 49, O&N2, PB 923, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
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Sarkozy D, Guttman A. Analysis of Peptides and Proteins by Native and SDS Capillary Gel Electrophoresis Coupled to Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry via a Closed-Circuit Coaxial Sheath Flow Reactor Interface. Anal Chem 2023; 95:7082-7086. [PMID: 37094174 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c04332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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A simple and widely applicable coaxial sheath flow reactor interface (CSFRI) is introduced for easy and robust connection of liquid-phase microseparation methods to mass spectrometric detection, especially for capillary gel electrophoresis analysis of proteins and peptides including SDS-protein complexes. The interface readily accommodated post-column reactions prior to MS detection. It was demonstrated that this novel closed-circuit connection allowed the utilization of non-MS friendly buffer components without significant ion suppression and supported stable electrospray. In SDS capillary agarose gel electrophoresis mode, addition of γ-cyclodextrin to the sheath liquid efficiently removed the SDS content of the sample and the background electrolyte in the flow reactor section by inclusion complexation, while maintaining good separation efficiency and decreasing ion suppression.
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- Daniel Sarkozy
- Horváth Csaba Memorial Laboratory of Bioseparation Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral School of Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Horváth Csaba Memorial Laboratory of Bioseparation Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral School of Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
- Translational Glycomics Group, Research Institute of Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering, University of Pannonia, H-8200 Veszprem, Hungary
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Böhm D, Koall M, Matysik FM. Combining amperometry and mass spectrometry as a dual detection approach for capillary electrophoresis. Electrophoresis 2023; 44:492-500. [PMID: 36413610 DOI: 10.1002/elps.202200228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 10/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Dual detection concepts (DDCs) are becoming more and more popular in analytical chemistry. In this work, we describe a novel DDC for capillary electrophoresis (CE) consisting of an amperometric detector (AD) and a mass spectrometer (MS). This detector combination has a good complementarity as the AD exhibits high sensitivity, whereas the MS provides excellent selectivity. Both detectors are based on a destructive detection principle, making a serial detector arrangement impossible. Thus, for the realization of the DDC, the CE flow was divided into two parts with a flow splitter. The DDC was characterized in a proof-of-concept study with ferrocene derivates and a nonaqueous background electrolyte. We could show that splitting the CE flow was a suitable method for the instrumental realization of the DDC consisting of two destructive detectors. By lowering the height of the AD compared to the MS, it was possible to synchronize the detector responses. Additionally, for the chosen model system, we confirmed that the AD was much more reproducible and had lower limits of detection (LODs) than the MS. The LODs were identical for the DDC and the single-detection arrangements, indicating no sensitivity decrease due to the CE flow splitting. The DDC was successfully applied to determine the drug and doping agent trimetazidine.
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- Daniel Böhm
- Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Chemo- and Biosensors, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Chemo- and Biosensors, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Chemo- and Biosensors, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, Regensburg, Germany
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Chen D, McCool EN, Yang Z, Shen X, Lubeckyj RA, Xu T, Wang Q, Sun L. Recent advances (2019-2021) of capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry for multilevel proteomics. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2023; 42:617-642. [PMID: 34128246 PMCID: PMC8671558 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2021] [Revised: 05/29/2021] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Multilevel proteomics aims to delineate proteins at the peptide (bottom-up proteomics), proteoform (top-down proteomics), and protein complex (native proteomics) levels. Capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) can achieve highly efficient separation and highly sensitive detection of complex mixtures of peptides, proteoforms, and even protein complexes because of its substantial technical progress. CE-MS has become a valuable alternative to the routinely used liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for multilevel proteomics. This review summarizes the most recent (2019-2021) advances of CE-MS for multilevel proteomics regarding technological progress and biological applications. We also provide brief perspectives on CE-MS for multilevel proteomics at the end, highlighting some future directions and potential challenges.
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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María Casas-Ferreira A, del Nogal Sánchez M, Rodríguez-Gonzalo E, Pérez Pavón JL. Non-separative determination of isomeric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by electrospray Ag(I) cationization mass spectrometry and multivariate calibration. Microchem J 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2022.108072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Seyfinejad B, Jouyban A. Capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry in pharmaceutical and biomedical analyses. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2022; 221:115059. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2022.115059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2022] [Revised: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 09/14/2022] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Tan C, Hong J, Xu W. Ion Bunching in Square-Wave-Driven Mobility Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2022; 94:13682-13690. [PMID: 36170210 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c01134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The ion-bunching effect was typically produced for ion beams in the gas phase, such as in ion accelerators. In this work, ion bunching was generated for ions in a liquid channel, specifically in a mobility capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (MCE-MS) setup. MCE was recently developed and coupled with MS for ion separation and the precise measurements of ion hydrodynamic radius and effective charge in solution. In conventional MCE, a DC high voltage is applied, which serves as the separation voltage. In this study, square waves were employed to replace this DC voltage, and the ion-bunching phenomenon was observed and characterized in both simulations and experiments. After applying a high voltage square wave, cations and anions would be bunched and concentrated at the positive and negative half cycle of the square wave, respectively. Accordingly, ion signal intensities detected by the following mass spectrometer could be increased by up to ∼50 folds for the aspartic acid anion. This square wave could also dissociate metal adduct cations from nucleic acid anions, which results in stronger nucleic acid ion intensities (up to ∼10 folds) with cleaner backgrounds.
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- Congrui Tan
- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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Wang CF, Li L. Instrument-type effects on chemical isotope labeling LC-MS metabolome analysis: Quadrupole time-of-flight MS vs. Orbitrap MS. Anal Chim Acta 2022; 1226:340255. [PMID: 36068057 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2022.340255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Chemical isotope labeling (CIL) LC-MS is a powerful tool for metabolome analysis with markedly improved metabolomic coverage and quantification accuracy over the conventional LC-MS technique. In addition, with differential isotope labeling, each labeled metabolite is detected as a peak pair in the mass spectra, offering the possibility of differentiating true metabolite peaks from the singlet noise or background peaks. In this study, we examined the effects of instrument type on the detectability of true metabolites with a focus on the comparison of quadrupole time-of-flight (QTOF) and Orbitrap mass spectrometers. Using the same ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography setup and optimized running conditions for QTOF and Orbitrap, we compared the total number of peak pairs detected and identified from the two instruments using human urine and serum as the test samples. Many common peak pairs were detected from the two instruments; however, there were a significant number of unique peak pairs detected in each type of instrument. By combining the datasets obtained using QTOF and Orbitrap, the total number of peak pairs detected could be significantly increased. We also examined the effect of mass resolving power on peak pair detection in Orbitrap (60,000 vs. 120,000 resolution). The observed differences in peak pair detectability were much less than those of QTOF vs. Orbitrap. However, the type of peak pairs detected using different resolutions could be somewhat different, offering the possibility of increasing the overall number of peak pairs by combining the two datasets obtained at two different resolutions. The results from this study clearly indicate that instrument type can have a profound effect on metabolite detection in CIL LC-MS. Therefore, comparison of metabolome data generated using different instruments needs to be carefully done. Moreover, future research (e.g., hardware modifications) is warranted to minimize the differences in order to generate more reproducible metabolome data from different types of instruments.
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- Chu-Fan Wang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Mora MF, Kok MGM, Noell A, Willis PA. Detection of Biosignatures by Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry in the Presence of Salts Relevant to Ocean Worlds Missions. ASTROBIOLOGY 2022; 22:914-925. [PMID: 35913998 DOI: 10.1089/ast.2021.0091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a promising liquid-based technique for in situ chemical analysis on ocean worlds that allows the detection of a wide range of organic molecules relevant to the search for life. CE coupled with mass spectrometry (MS) is particularly valuable as it also enables the discovery of unknown compounds. Here we demonstrate that CE coupled to MS via electrospray ionization (ESI) can readily analyze samples containing up to half the saturation levels of salts relevant to ocean worlds when using 5 M acetic acid as the separation media. A mixture containing amino acids, peptides, nucleobases, and nucleosides was analyzed in the presence of two salts, NaCl and MgSO4, based on their relevance to Europa and Enceladus. We demonstrate here CE-MS limits of detection for these organics ranging from 0.05 to 1 μM (8 to 89 ppb) in the absence of salts. More importantly, we demonstrate here for the first time that organics in the low micromolar range (1-50 μM) are detected by CE-MS in the presence of 3 M NaCl without desalting, preconcentration, or derivatization. This demonstration highlights how CE-MS is uniquely suited for organic analysis on future missions to ocean worlds.
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- Maria F Mora
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
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Gstöttner C, Haselberg R, Wuhrer M, Somsen GW, Domínguez-Vega E. Assessment of Macro- and Microheterogeneity of Monoclonal Antibodies Using Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Hyphenated with Mass Spectrometry. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2531:125-142. [PMID: 35941483 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2493-7_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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This chapter focuses on the application of capillary zone electrophoresis hyphenated with mass spectrometry (CZE-MS) for the characterization of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). mAbs are complex molecules comprising different glycoforms and many other posttranslational modifications. In addition to this inherent microheterogeneity, misassembling of antibodies can take place during production contributing to their macroheterogeneity. CZE-MS is a versatile and powerful technique which has demonstrated high potential for the assessment of both micro- and macroheterogeneity of mAbs. In this chapter, technical and practical considerations for the characterization of mAbs by CZE-MS are described. CE-MS interfacing, capillary coatings for the prevention of mAb adsorption, and sample preparation considerations are covered in detail. The assessment of the macro- and microheterogeneity is discussed and exemplified through three different approaches involving analysis of intact, enzymatically digested, and reduced antibodies. The examples also illustrate the use of two commercially available interfacing techniques (i.e., sheath liquid and sheathless) as well as different types of capillary coatings (positively charged and neutral coatings).
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- Christoph Gstöttner
- Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Division of BioAnalytical Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Division of BioAnalytical Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Gosset-Erard C, Giorgetti J, Biacchi M, Aubriet F, Leize-Wagner E, Chaimbault P, François YN. Protocol for Etching Bare-Fused Silica Capillaries for Sheathless Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry Coupling. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2531:49-59. [PMID: 35941477 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2493-7_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Homemade capillaries are a very common practice for the users of capillary electrophoresis (CE), notably in CE-UV. With the advent of the capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry coupling since the end of the 1980s, several interfaces have been developed. Among those interfaces, the porous tip sprayer allows great sensitivity at nano flow rates and has been used in numerous applications over the past few years. However, the homemade implementation of a suitable capillary for the porous tip sprayer is more challenging. The porous tip is created by etching the bare-fused silica capillary with hydrofluoric acid. Here we describe the complete process of etching bare-fused silica capillaries, from length cutting to quality control of the newly etched capillary.
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- Clarisse Gosset-Erard
- Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse des Interactions et des Systèmes (LSMIS), UMR 7140 (Unistra-CNRS), Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique-Approche Multi-échelles des Milieux Complexes (LCP-A2MC), Université de Lorraine, Metz, France
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- Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse des Interactions et des Systèmes (LSMIS), UMR 7140 (Unistra-CNRS), Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse des Interactions et des Systèmes (LSMIS), UMR 7140 (Unistra-CNRS), Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique-Approche Multi-échelles des Milieux Complexes (LCP-A2MC), Université de Lorraine, Metz, France
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- Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse des Interactions et des Systèmes (LSMIS), UMR 7140 (Unistra-CNRS), Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique-Approche Multi-échelles des Milieux Complexes (LCP-A2MC), Université de Lorraine, Metz, France
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- Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse des Interactions et des Systèmes (LSMIS), UMR 7140 (Unistra-CNRS), Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
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Technique development of high-throughput and high-sensitivity sample preparation and separation for proteomics. Bioanalysis 2021; 14:101-111. [PMID: 34854341 DOI: 10.4155/bio-2021-0202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Sample preparation and separation methods determine the sensitivity and the quantification accuracy of the proteomics analysis. This article covers a comprehensive review of the recent technique development of high-throughput and high-sensitivity sample preparation and separation methods in proteomics research.
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Helena H, Ivona V, Roman Ř, František F. Current applications of capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry for the analysis of biologically important analytes in urine (2017 to mid-2021): A review. J Sep Sci 2021; 45:305-324. [PMID: 34538010 PMCID: PMC9292318 DOI: 10.1002/jssc.202100621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2021] [Revised: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Capillary electrophoresis coupled online with mass detection is a modern tool for analyzing wide ranges of compounds in complex samples, including urine. Capillary electrophoresis with mass spectrometry allows the separation and identification of various analytes spanning from small ions to high molecular weight protein complexes. Similarly to the much more common liquid chromatography‐mass spectrometry techniques, the capillary electrophoresis separation reduces the complexity of the mixture of analytes entering the mass spectrometer resulting in reduced ion suppression and a more straightforward interpretation of the mass spectrometry data. This review summarizes capillary electrophoresis with mass spectrometry studies published between the years 2017 and 2021, aiming at the determination of various compounds excreted in urine. The properties of the urine, including its diagnostical and analytical features and chemical composition, are also discussed including general protocols for the urine sample preparation. The mechanism of the electrophoretic separation and the instrumentation for capillary electrophoresis with mass spectrometry coupling is also included. This review shows the potential of the capillary electrophoresis with mass spectrometry technique for the analyses of different kinds of analytes in a complex biological matrix. The discussed applications are divided into two main groups (capillary electrophoresis with mass spectrometry for the determination of drugs and drugs of abuse in urine and capillary electrophoresis with mass spectrometry for the studies of urinary metabolome).
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- Hrušková Helena
- Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.,Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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Wang L, Li Y, Chen D, Chen DDY. Electrospray ionization stability and concentration sensitivity in capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry using a flow-through microvial interface. Electrophoresis 2021; 42:360-368. [PMID: 33345341 DOI: 10.1002/elps.202000239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2019] [Revised: 11/25/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Concentration sensitivity is a key performance indicator for analytical techniques including for capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) with electrospray ionization (ESI). In this study, a flow-through microvial interface was used to couple CE with MS and improve the ESI stability and detection sensitivity. By infusing a peptide mixture through the interface into an MS detector at a typical flow rate for CE-MS analysis, the spatial region near the interface was mapped for MS signal intensity. When the sprayer tip was within a 6 × 6.5 × 5 mm region in front of the MS inlet, the ESI was stable with no significant loss of signal intensity for ions with m/z 239. Finite element simulations showed that the average electric field strength at the emitter tip did not change significantly with minor changes in emitter tip location. Experiments were conducted with four different mass spectrometer platforms coupled to CE via the flow-through microvial interface. Key performance indicators, that is, limit of detection (LOD) and linearity of calibration curves were measured for nine amino acids and five peptides. Inter- and intraday reproducibility were also tested. The results were shown to be suitable for quantification when internal standards were used.
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- Lingyu Wang
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry and Stoichiometry, National Institution of Metrology, Beijing, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z1, Canada
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Analysis of Monoclonal Antibodies by Capillary Electrophoresis: Sample Preparation, Separation, and Detection. SEPARATIONS 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/separations8010004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are dominating the biopharmaceutical field due to the fact of their high specificity in the treatment of diverse diseases. Nevertheless, mAbs are very complex glycoproteins exhibiting several macro- and microheterogeneities that may affect their safety, quality, and efficacy. This complexity is very challenging for mAbs development, formulation, and quality control. To tackle the quality issue, a combination of multiple analytical approaches is necessary. In this perspective, capillary electrophoresis has gained considerable interest over the last decade due to the fact of its complementary features to chromatographic approaches. This review provides an overview of the strategies of mAbs and derivatives analysis by capillary electrophoresis hyphenated to ultraviolet, fluorescence, and mass spectrometry detection. The main sample preparation approaches used for mAb analytical characterization (i.e., intact, middle-up/down, and bottom-up) are detailed. The different electrophoretic modes used as well as integrated analysis approaches (sample preparation and separation) are critically discussed.
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Cajic S, Hennig R, Burock R, Rapp E. Capillary (Gel) Electrophoresis-Based Methods for Immunoglobulin (G) Glycosylation Analysis. EXPERIENTIA SUPPLEMENTUM (2012) 2021; 112:137-172. [PMID: 34687009 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76912-3_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The in-depth characterization of protein glycosylation has become indispensable in many research fields and in the biopharmaceutical industry. Especially knowledge about modulations in immunoglobulin G (IgG) N-glycosylation and their effect on immunity enabled a better understanding of human diseases and the development of new, more effective drugs for their treatment. This chapter provides a deeper insight into capillary (gel) electrophoresis-based (C(G)E) glycan analysis, addressing its impressive performance and possibilities, its great potential regarding real high-throughput for large cohort studies, as well as its challenges and limitations. We focus on the latest developments with respect to miniaturization and mass spectrometry coupling, as well as data analysis and interpretation. The use of exoglycosidase sequencing in combination with current C(G)E technology is discussed, highlighting possible difficulties and pitfalls. The application section describes the detailed characterization of N-glycosylation, utilizing multiplexed CGE with laser-induced fluorescence detection (xCGE-LIF). Besides a comprehensive overview on antibody glycosylation by comparing species-specific IgGs and human immunoglobulins A, D, E, G, and M, the chapter comprises a comparison of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies from different production cell lines, as well as a detailed characterization of Fab and Fc glycosylation. These examples illustrate the full potential of C(G)E, resolving the smallest differences in sugar composition and structure.
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- Samanta Cajic
- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany.
- glyXera GmbH, Magdeburg, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany
- glyXera GmbH, Magdeburg, Germany
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Sauer F, Sydow C, Trapp O. A robust sheath-flow CE-MS interface for hyphenation with Orbitrap MS. Electrophoresis 2020; 41:1280-1286. [PMID: 32358866 DOI: 10.1002/elps.202000044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2020] [Revised: 04/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The hyphenation of capillary electrophoresis with high-resolution mass spectrometry, such as Orbitrap MS, is of broad interest for the unambiguous and exceptionally sensitive identification of compounds. However, the coupling of these techniques requires a robust ionization interface that does not influence the stability of the separation voltage while coping with oxidation of the emitter tip at large ionization voltages. Herein, we present the design of a sheath-flow CE-ESI-MS interface which combines a robust and easy to operate set-up with high-resolution Orbitrap MS detection. The sheath liquid interface is equipped with a gold coated electrospray emitter which increases the stability and overall lifetime of the system. For the characterization of the interface, the spray stability and durability were investigated in dependence of the sheath-flow rate, electrospray voltage, and additional gold coating. The optimized conditions were applied to a separation of angiotensin II and neurotensin resulting in LODs of 2.4 and 3.5 ng/mL.
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- Fabian Sauer
- Department Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany
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- Department Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany
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- Department Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.,Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
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Vermeire PJ, Van Schepdael A, Petersen NJ. Development of a novel sheathless CE-ESI-MS interface via a CO 2 laser ablated opening. Talanta 2020; 214:120853. [PMID: 32278416 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2020.120853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Revised: 02/13/2020] [Accepted: 02/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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A new and easy to construct sheathless capillary electrophoresis electro spray ionization mass spectrometry (CE-ESI-MS) interface was developed that offers several advantages compared to traditional liquid junction interfaces. The fabrication of the device only requires a CO2 laser engraver that most groups working with microfluids have access to. It only takes a few seconds to create a CO2 laser ablated opening in the bare-fused silica capillaries and the opening can be placed as close as a few mm from the spray tip. The capillary is punctured through a silicone tube such that the opening is directly placed inside this tube, which also serves as a liquid reservoir for the make-up liquid. Electrical contact required for both CE separation and ESI is established via the liquid in this reservoir which is in contact with the electrode of an external high voltage power supply. The developed CE-ESI-MS interface is capable of analysing both small molecules and biomolecules such as peptides in physisorbed PEG polymer brush coated capillaries. Proof-of-principle of the interface was demonstrated by analysing a tryptic digest of BSA. Further, a range of drugs of abuse were also investigated. The examined small molecules (pethidine, nortriptyline, methadone, haloperidol and loperamide) have a quantification limit (LOQ) of 150 ng/mL and a detection limit (LOD) of 40 ng/mL (except for loperamide: LOD = 80 ng/mL). Finally, we used our novel CE-MS interface for the analysis of the Aβ40 peptide. This is a member of the beta-Amyloid peptide family, involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease. A LOQ of 9 μg/mL was obtained for Aβ40, corresponding to 23 fmoles in a sample volume of 11 nL.
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- Pieter-Jan Vermeire
- Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, O&N2 PB 822, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, O&N2 PB 822, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Yan X, Sun L, Dovichi NJ, Champion MM. Minimal deuterium isotope effects in quantitation of dimethyl-labeled complex proteomes analyzed with capillary zone electrophoresis/mass spectrometry. Electrophoresis 2020; 41:1374-1378. [PMID: 32548848 PMCID: PMC7540333 DOI: 10.1002/elps.202000051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2019] [Revised: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 05/16/2020] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Stable heavy-isotope labeling is commonly used in quantitative proteomics. Several common techniques incorporate deuterium (2 H) as the heavy isotopic label using reductive amination with formaldehyde. Compared with alternatives, dimethyl labeling reagents are inexpensive and the labeling chemistry is simple and rapid. However, the substitution of hydrogen by deuterium can introduce subtle changes in peptides' polarities, leading to a shift in chromatographic retention times between deuterated and nondeuterated peptides that can lead to quantification deviations. Capillary zone electrophoresis has emerged as a complementary separation for ESI-MS-based proteomics, including targeted and quantitative approaches. The extent to which the deuterium isotope effect impacts CZE-based proteomics, which separates peptides based on their S/N ratios, has not been investigated. To address this issue, CZE was used to analyze dimethyl labeled E. coli tryptic digests in 100 min single-shot analyses. The median migration time shift was 0.1 s for light versus heavy labeled peptides, which is 2.5% of the peak width. For comparison, nUHPLC-ESI-MS/MS was used to analyze the same sample. In UPLC, deuterated peptides tended to elute earlier than nondeuterated peptides, with a retention shift of 3 s for light versus heavy labeled peptides, which is roughly half the peak width. This shift in separation time did not have a significant effect on quantitation for either method for equal mixing ratios of the light-intermediate-heavy isotope labeled samples.
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- Xiaojing Yan
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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Zhao T, Wang L, Chen DDY. Quantification of imatinib and related compounds using capillary electrophoresis-tandem mass spectrometry with field-amplified sample stacking. Electrophoresis 2020; 41:1843-1850. [PMID: 32529679 DOI: 10.1002/elps.202000118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2020] [Revised: 06/05/2020] [Accepted: 06/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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A quantification method for imatinib (IM), its major metabolite N-desmethyl imatinib (NDI), and a degradation by-product was developed using CE-MS combined with an online concentration technique. The use of multiple reaction monitoring (MRM)-MS/MS further improved the sensitivity of this technology. Liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) using tertiary butyl methyl ether yielded high recovery and reproducibility for the pretreatment of serum samples. The recovery rate exceeded 83% for all three analytes, and was 90% for IM. To improve quantification results, a conductivity-induced online analyte concentration technique, field-amplified sample stacking (FASS), was used. The S/N ratios were improved at least 10-fold when compared with conventional capillary zone electrophoresis. The detection limits were 0.2 ng/mL for IM, 0.4 ng/mL for NDI, and 4 ng/mL for the degradation by-product. These results are superior to those previously obtained by other reported methods. The new method was validated in terms of its selectivity, intra- and interday repeatability and accuracy, and sample storage stability, following the guidelines issued by the European Medicines Agency. Considering the convenient pretreatment procedure (LLE), superior sensitivity, and fast analysis speed (<15 min), this method can be useful in the determination of imatinib levels in blood.
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- Tingting Zhao
- Department of Chemistry, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Zhang H, Lou C, Li J, Kang J. A gold foil covered fused silica capillary tip as a sheathless interface for coupling capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry. J Chromatogr A 2020; 1624:461215. [PMID: 32540065 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2020.461215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2020] [Revised: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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A method for the preparation of an on-column ESI emitter used as the sheathless interface for coupling capillary electrophoresis (CE) with mass spectrometry (MS) was developed. The emitter was directly fabricated at the outlet end of the separation capillary which was etched with HF solution to a symmetrical tip. The tip was covered with a small piece of gold foil which was fixed by epoxy resin glue for electrical contact. Such a prepared ESI emitter can produce a stable ESI signal over the wide range of flow rate from 50 nL/min to 800 nL/min. The performance of the CE-MS with the sheathless interface was evaluated by using the separation of four alkaloids. It was found that the strong electroosmotic flow produced by the multiple polyelectrolyte coating on the capillary is necessary for maintaining a stable MS signal. Effect of the running buffer composition, concentration and the CE separation voltages on the ESI signal strength were investigated. The absolute detection limits for the alkaloids was determined as fmol level. Moreover, the CE-MS was applied for the analyses of trypsin digestion of cytochrome C and small molecular organic anions. The emitter performed very stable with a lifetime of at least 180 h.
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- Hanzhi Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China; Shanghai Institute for Food and Drug Control, Zhangheng Road 1500, Shanghai 201203, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China; School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Haike Road 100, Shanghai 200120, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China; School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Haike Road 100, Shanghai 200120, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China; School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Haike Road 100, Shanghai 200120, China.
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He H, Tian M, Hu L, Yang L. Ultrasensitive determination of organotin compounds in plastic food packaging and edible oils by sheathless capillary electrophoresis-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry. Analyst 2020; 145:2286-2296. [PMID: 32003368 DOI: 10.1039/c9an02331c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The determination of trace-amount organotins in plastic food packaging materials is of great significance in food safety. However, due to the complexity of organotins and sample treatment processes, it is still a challenging task. Here, we report a method for the sensitive and simultaneous determination of organotins in plastic food packaging materials and edible oils, by utilizing sheathless capillary electrophoresis-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry. The method of sample pretreatment with ultrasonic extraction and solid phase extraction is used to eliminate interference. The results showed low limits of detection (LODs) of 2 pg mL-1-50 pg mL-1 and excellent inter/intra-day repeatability. Good average recoveries in the range of 80.27% to 108.52% were obtained at three spiked concentrations, with a relative standard deviation less than 8.71%. The successful simultaneous determination of the target analytes will pave the way for further assessment of contamination and migration behaviour of organotins from packaging materials to food, which is of great significance for evaluating and controlling food safety.
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- Huiyu He
- Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun, Jilin Province 130024, PR China.
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Lombard-Banek C, Schiel JE. Mass Spectrometry Advances and Perspectives for the Characterization of Emerging Adoptive Cell Therapies. Molecules 2020; 25:E1396. [PMID: 32204371 PMCID: PMC7144572 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25061396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2020] [Revised: 03/06/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Adoptive cell therapy is an emerging anti-cancer modality, whereby the patient's own immune cells are engineered to express T-cell receptor (TCR) or chimeric antigen receptor (CAR). CAR-T cell therapies have advanced the furthest, with recent approvals of two treatments by the Food and Drug Administration of Kymriah (trisagenlecleucel) and Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel). Recent developments in proteomic analysis by mass spectrometry (MS) make this technology uniquely suited to enable the comprehensive identification and quantification of the relevant biochemical architecture of CAR-T cell therapies and fulfill current unmet needs for CAR-T product knowledge. These advances include improved sample preparation methods, enhanced separation technologies, and extension of MS-based proteomic to single cells. Innovative technologies such as proteomic analysis of raw material quality attributes (MQA) and final product quality attributes (PQA) may provide insights that could ultimately fuel development strategies and lead to broad implementation.
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- Camille Lombard-Banek
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA;
- Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA;
- Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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Shen X, Yang Z, McCool EN, Lubeckyj RA, Chen D, Sun L. Capillary zone electrophoresis-mass spectrometry for top-down proteomics. Trends Analyt Chem 2019; 120:115644. [PMID: 31537953 PMCID: PMC6752746 DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2019.115644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Mass spectrometry (MS)-based top-down proteomics characterizes complex proteomes at the intact proteoform level and provides an accurate picture of protein isoforms and protein post-translational modifications in the cell. The progress of top-down proteomics requires novel analytical tools with high peak capacity for proteoform separation and high sensitivity for proteoform detection. The requirements have made capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE)-MS an attractive approach for advancing large-scale top-down proteomics. CZE has achieved a peak capacity of 300 for separation of complex proteoform mixtures. CZE-MS has shown drastically better sensitivity than commonly used reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC)-MS for proteoform detection. The advanced CZE-MS identified 6,000 proteoforms of nearly 1,000 proteoform families from a complex proteome sample, which represents one of the largest top-down proteomic datasets so far. In this review, we focus on the recent progress in CZE-MS-based top-down proteomics and provide our perspectives about its future directions.
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- Xiaojing Shen
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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Zhang F, Hong J, Xu W, Qu F. Straight nano-electrospray ionization and its coupling of mobility capillary electrophoresis to mass spectrometry. Talanta 2019; 206:120183. [PMID: 31514879 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2019.120183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2019] [Revised: 07/24/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Mobility capillary electrophoresis (MCE) was developed previously in our group, which has the capabilities of ion separation and biomolecule hydrodynamic radius analysis. The coupling of MCE with mass spectrometry (MS) would greatly improve complex sample identification capability as well as system detection sensitivity. In the present study, a simple and robust ionization source, named as straight nano-electrospray ionization (nanoESI) source was developed, which was applied to couple MCE with MS. A stainless-steel needle attached directly at the end of an MCE capillary was used as the nanoESI emitter, and the connection between this emitter to the liquid flow in the MCE separation channel was established through a liquid bridge. After optimization, this straight nanoESI source enhanced the ion signal intensity by ~10 times when compared with a commercial nanoESI source. The MCE-straight nanoESI-MS system was also characterized in terms of mixture separation and peptide hydrodynamic radius measurements. Compared to our previous work when a UV detector was used in a commercial Lumex CE system (model Capel 105 M, St. Petersburg, Russia), peptides with much lower concentrations could be analyzed (from ~1 mg/mL to ~20 μg/mL) in terms of radius measurement.
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- Fei Zhang
- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China.
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China.
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Gahoual R, Leize-Wagner E, Houzé P, François YN. Revealing the potential of capillary electrophoresis/mass spectrometry: the tipping point. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2019; 33 Suppl 1:11-19. [PMID: 30022554 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.8238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Revised: 07/04/2018] [Accepted: 07/11/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The hyphenation of capillary electrophoresis and mass spectrometry (CE/MS) remains a minor technique compared with liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS), which represents nowadays the standard instrumentation, regardless of its introduction thirty years ago. However, from a theoretical point of view, CE coupling should be quite favorable especially with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). At the time, the sensitivity provided by CE/MS was often limited, due to hyphenation requirements, which at some point appeared to disqualify CE/MS from benefiting from the performance gain driving the evolution of MS instruments. However, this context has been significantly modified in a matter of a few years. The development of innovative CE/MS interfacing systems has enabled an important improvement regarding sensitivity and reinforced robustness in order to provide an instrumentation accessible to the largest scientific community. Because of the unique selectivity delivered by the electrophoretic separation, CE/MS has proved to be particularly relevant for the analysis of biological molecules. The conjunction of these aspects is motivating the interest in CE/MS analysis and shows that CE/MS is mature enough to enrich the toolbox of analytical techniques for the analysis of complex biological samples. Here we discuss the characteristics of the major types of high-sensitivity CE/ESI-MS instrumentation and emphasize the late evolution and future positioning of CE/MS analysis for the characterization of biological molecules like peptides and proteins, through some pertinent applications.
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- Rabah Gahoual
- Unité de Technologies Biologiques et Chimiques pour la Santé (UTCBS), Paris 5-CNRS UMR8258 Inserm U1022, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de spectrométrie de masse des interactions et des systèmes (LSMIS), Unistra-CNRS UMR7140, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Unité de Technologies Biologiques et Chimiques pour la Santé (UTCBS), Paris 5-CNRS UMR8258 Inserm U1022, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
- Laboratoire de Biochimie, Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de spectrométrie de masse des interactions et des systèmes (LSMIS), Unistra-CNRS UMR7140, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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Yang X, Bartlett MG. Glycan analysis for protein therapeutics. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2019; 1120:29-40. [PMID: 31063953 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2019.04.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2018] [Revised: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Glycosylation can be a critical quality attribute for protein therapeutics due to its extensive impact on product safety and efficacy. Glycan characterization is important in the process of protein drug development, from early stage candidate selection to late stage regulatory submission. It is also an indispensable part in the evaluation of biosimilarity. This review discusses the effects of glycosylation on the stability and activity of protein therapeutics, regulatory considerations corresponding to manufacturing and structural characterization of glycosylated protein therapeutics, and focuses on mass spectrometry compatible separation methods for glycan characterization of protein therapeutics. These approaches include hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography, reversed-phase liquid chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, porous graphitic carbon liquid chromatography and two-dimensional liquid chromatography. Advances and novelties in each separation method, as well as associated challenges and limitations, are discussed at the released glycan, glycopeptide, glycoprotein subunit and intact glycoprotein levels.
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- Xiangkun Yang
- Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2352, United States of America
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- Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2352, United States of America.
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Ramautar R. Sheathless Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry for the Profiling of Charged Metabolites in Biological Samples. Methods Mol Biol 2019; 1738:183-192. [PMID: 29654590 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7643-0_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is well suited for the profiling of highly polar and charged metabolites as compounds are separated on the basis of their charge-to-size ratio. The protocol presented here is based on using a recently developed sheathless interfacing design, i.e., a porous tip interface, for coupling CE to electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (MS). It is demonstrated that sheathless CE-MS employing a bare fused-silica capillary at low-pH separation conditions can be used for the profiling of both cationic and anionic metabolites by only switching the MS detection and electrophoretic separation voltage polarity. The proposed sheathless CE-MS protocol allows efficient and sensitive profiles to be obtained for a broad array of charged metabolites, including amino acids, organic acids, nucleotides, and sugar phosphates, in various biological samples, such as urine and extracts of the glioblastoma cell line.
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- Rawi Ramautar
- Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Shanmuganathan M, Britz-McKibbin P. New Advances in Amino Acid Profiling in Biological Samples by Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry. Methods Mol Biol 2019; 2030:327-350. [PMID: 31347129 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9639-1_25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) offers a high efficiency microseparation platform for amino acid profiling when analyzing volume-restricted biological samples, such as a dried blood spot punch. Direct analysis of amino acids and their analogs is routinely achieved using strongly acidic buffer conditions under positive-ion mode detection with a coaxial sheath liquid interface for electrospray ionization (ESI). New advances in online sample preconcentration, pre-column chemical derivatization, and/or low flow/sheathless CE-MS interface designs can further improve sensitivity while allowing for resolution of amino acid stereoisomers and labile aminothiols with low nanomolar detection limits. Additionally, multiplexed separations in CE-MS based on serial injection of seven or more samples within a single run greatly boosts sample throughput (<2-3 min/sample) without added infrastructure costs while allowing for stringent quality control and signal batch correction. Accurate prediction of the electromigration behavior of amino acids and their analogs offers a convenient approach for structural elucidation that is complementary to high-resolution MS and MS/MS. Simultaneous analysis of amino acids together with other classes of ionic metabolites by CE-MS allows for comprehensive metabolomic screening as required for new advances in clinical medicine, nutritional sciences, and population health.
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- Meera Shanmuganathan
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
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Wang L, Bo T, Zhang Z, Wang G, Tong W, Da Yong Chen D. High Resolution Capillary Isoelectric Focusing Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Peptides, Proteins, And Monoclonal Antibodies with a Flow-through Microvial Interface. Anal Chem 2018; 90:9495-9503. [PMID: 29993237 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b02175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Lingyu Wang
- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China 210023
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific, 7th Floor, Building F, Tower West, Yonghe Plaza, No. 28 Andingmen Street East, Beijing, China 100007
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific, 7th Floor, Building F, Tower West, Yonghe Plaza, No. 28 Andingmen Street East, Beijing, China 100007
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China 210023
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China 210023
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China 210023
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1
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MacLennan MS, Peru KM, Swyngedouw C, Fleming I, Chen DDY, Headley JV. Characterization of Athabasca lean oil sands and mixed surficial materials: Comparison of capillary electrophoresis/low-resolution mass spectrometry and high-resolution mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2018; 32:695-702. [PMID: 29486520 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.8093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2017] [Revised: 02/15/2018] [Accepted: 02/17/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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RATIONALE Oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada, requires removal and stockpiling of considerable volumes of near-surface overburden material. This overburden includes lean oil sands (LOS) which cannot be processed economically but contain sparingly soluble petroleum hydrocarbons and naphthenic acids, which can leach into environmental waters. In order to measure and track the leaching of dissolved constituents and distinguish industrially derived organics from naturally occurring organics in local waters, practical methods were developed for characterizing multiple sources of contaminated water leakage. METHODS Capillary electrophoresis/positive-ion electrospray ionization low-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry (CE/LRMS), high-resolution negative-ion electrospray ionization Orbitrap mass spectrometry (HRMS) and conventional gas chromatography/flame ionization detection (GC/FID) were used to characterize porewater samples collected from within Athabasca LOS and mixed surficial materials. GC/FID was used to measure total petroleum hydrocarbon and HRMS was used to measure total naphthenic acid fraction components (NAFCs). HRMS and CE/LRMS were used to characterize samples according to source. RESULTS The amounts of total petroleum hydrocarbon in each sample as measured by GC/FID ranged from 0.1 to 15.1 mg/L while the amounts of NAFCs as measured by HRMS ranged from 5.3 to 82.3 mg/L. Factors analysis (FA) on HRMS data visually demonstrated clustering according to sample source and was correlated to molecular formula. LRMS coupled to capillary electrophoresis separation (CE/LRMS) provides important information on NAFC isomers by adding analyte migration time data to m/z and peak intensity. CONCLUSIONS Differences in measured amounts of total petroleum hydrocarbons by GC/FID and NAFCs by HRMS indicate that the two methods provide complementary information about the nature of dissolved organic species in a soil or water leachate samples. NAFC molecule class Ox Sy is a possible tracer for LOS seepage. CE/LRMS provides complementary information and is a feasible and practical option for source evaluation of NAFCs in water.
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- Matthew S MacLennan
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Water Science Technology Directorate, Environment and Climate Change Canada, 11 Innovation Boulevard, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 3H5, Canada
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- Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, 57 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A9, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada
- Water Science Technology Directorate, Environment and Climate Change Canada, 11 Innovation Boulevard, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 3H5, Canada
- Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, 57 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A9, Canada
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Gusenkov S, Stutz H. Top-down and bottom-up characterization of nitrated birch pollen allergen Bet v 1a with CZE hyphenated to an Orbitrap mass spectrometer. Electrophoresis 2018; 39:1190-1200. [PMID: 29389018 PMCID: PMC6175448 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201700413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2017] [Revised: 01/19/2018] [Accepted: 01/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Tyrosine (Tyr) residues of the major pollen allergen of birch Betula verrucosa, Bet v 1a, were nitrated by peroxynitrite. This modification enhances the allergenicity. Modified tyrosines were identified by analyzing intact allergen variants in combination with top‐down and bottom‐up approaches. Therefore, a laboratory‐built sheath‐liquid assisted ESI interface was applied for hyphenation of CE to an Orbitrap mass spectrometer to localize individual nitration sites. The major focus was on identification of primary nitration sites. The top‐down approach unambiguously identified Tyr 5 as the most prominent modification site. Fragments from the allergen core and the C‐terminal part carried up to three potential nitration sites, respectively. Thus, a bottom‐up approach with tryptic digest was used as a complementary strategy which allowed for the unambiguous localization of nitration sites within the respective peptides. Nitration propensity for individual Tyr residues was addressed by comparison of MS signals of nitrated peptides relative to all cognates of homolog primary sequence. Combined data identified surface exposed Tyr 5 and Tyr 66 as major nitration sites followed by less accessible Tyr 158 whereas Tyr 81, 83 and 150 possess a lower nitration tendency and are apparently modified in variants with higher nitration levels.
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- Sergey Gusenkov
- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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Fang P, Pan JZ, Fang Q. A robust and extendable sheath flow interface with minimal dead volume for coupling CE with ESI-MS. Talanta 2017; 180:376-382. [PMID: 29332826 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2017.12.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2017] [Revised: 12/06/2017] [Accepted: 12/14/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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In this paper, we describe a robust sheath flow-based CE-MS interface with minimal interface dead volume based on an extended pattern. A 20µm i.d. × 90µm o.d. fused-silica capillary with a chemically-etched thin-wall tip (30µm o.d.) was used as the separation capillary as well as electrospray emitter, and a 200µm i.d. × 375µm o.d. capillary with a tapered tip (40µm o.d.) was used as the sheath flow capillary. An extendable sheath-flow interface mode was adopted by decreasing the thickness of separation capillary tip and extending the separation capillary tip out from the sheath flow capillary tip, and allowing the sheath flow to be transferred to the separation capillary tip along its outer surface, forming a surface sheath flow to mix with sample flow at the separation capillary tip. Such a strategy could significantly reduce the interface dead volume and thus improve the CE separation efficiency and detection sensitivity, as well as evidently enhance the working reliability of the CE-MS interface. We investigated various factors affecting the interface performance, including capillary extending distance, emitter diameters, sheath flow capillary shape, and sheath flow rate. Under the optimized conditions, a minimal interface dead volume of ca. 4pL was obtained which is the smallest one compared with previously-reported sheath flow-based CE-MS interfaces. The feasibility and applicability of the present CE-MS interface were demonstrated in the separation of a peptide mixture with high separation efficiency of 2.07-3.38µm plate heights and good repeatabilities (< 6.1% RSD, n = 5). We except such a simple and robust interface could provide a possible solution for the development of commercial CE-MS interfaces differing from the currently-used ones, and has the potentials to be applied in routine analytical laboratories for various studies such as proteomics, metabolomics, or single cell analysis.
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- Pan Fang
- Institute of Microanalytical Systems, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Microanalytical Systems, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Microanalytical Systems, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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Belov AM, Viner R, Santos MR, Horn DM, Bern M, Karger BL, Ivanov AR. Analysis of Proteins, Protein Complexes, and Organellar Proteomes Using Sheathless Capillary Zone Electrophoresis - Native Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2017; 28:2614-2634. [PMID: 28875426 PMCID: PMC5709234 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-017-1781-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2017] [Revised: 08/09/2017] [Accepted: 08/09/2017] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Native mass spectrometry (MS) is a rapidly advancing field in the analysis of proteins, protein complexes, and macromolecular species of various types. The majority of native MS experiments reported to-date has been conducted using direct infusion of purified analytes into a mass spectrometer. In this study, capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) was coupled online to Orbitrap mass spectrometers using a commercial sheathless interface to enable high-performance separation, identification, and structural characterization of limited amounts of purified proteins and protein complexes, the latter with preserved non-covalent associations under native conditions. The performance of both bare-fused silica and polyacrylamide-coated capillaries was assessed using mixtures of protein standards known to form non-covalent protein-protein and protein-ligand complexes. High-efficiency separation of native complexes is demonstrated using both capillary types, while the polyacrylamide neutral-coated capillary showed better reproducibility and higher efficiency for more complex samples. The platform was then evaluated for the determination of monoclonal antibody aggregation and for analysis of proteomes of limited complexity using a ribosomal isolate from E. coli. Native CZE-MS, using accurate single stage and tandem-MS measurements, enabled identification of proteoforms and non-covalent complexes at femtomole levels. This study demonstrates that native CZE-MS can serve as an orthogonal and complementary technique to conventional native MS methodologies with the advantages of low sample consumption, minimal sample processing and losses, and high throughput and sensitivity. This study presents a novel platform for analysis of ribosomes and other macromolecular complexes and organelles, with the potential for discovery of novel structural features defining cellular phenotypes (e.g., specialized ribosomes). Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Arseniy M Belov
- Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific, San Jose, CA, 95134, USA
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific, San Jose, CA, 95134, USA
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- Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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Ma H, Bai Y, Li J, Chang YX. Screening bioactive compounds from natural product and its preparations using capillary electrophoresis. Electrophoresis 2017; 39:260-274. [DOI: 10.1002/elps.201700239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2017] [Revised: 08/31/2017] [Accepted: 09/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Huifen Ma
- Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine; Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Tianjin P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Formula of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine); Ministry of Education; Tianjin P. R. China
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- Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine; Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Tianjin P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Formula of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine); Ministry of Education; Tianjin P. R. China
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- Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine; Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Tianjin P. R. China
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- Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine; Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Tianjin P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Formula of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine); Ministry of Education; Tianjin P. R. China
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Moreno-González D, Haselberg R, Gámiz-Gracia L, García-Campaña AM, de Jong GJ, Somsen GW. Fully compatible and ultra-sensitive micellar electrokinetic chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry using sheathless porous-tip interfacing. J Chromatogr A 2017; 1524:283-289. [PMID: 28992989 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2017.09.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2017] [Revised: 09/26/2017] [Accepted: 09/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The on-line coupling of micellar electrokinetic chromatography and mass spectrometry (MEKC-MS) is often hampered by incompatibility problems leading to reduced separation performance and unfavorable limits of detection (LODs). Here we propose a new selective and highly sensitive MEKC-MS/MS method employing a sheathless porous-tip interface in combination with a micellar phase comprised of semi-volatile surfactant molecules. Carbamate pesticides (CRBs) were selected as representative model compounds being neutral toxic pollutants potentially present at trace levels in environmental water samples. A background electrolyte of 75mM perfluorooctanoic acid adjusted to pH 9.0 with ammonium hydroxide allowed efficient separation of 15 CRBs and appeared fully compatible with electrospray ionization (ESI)-MS. Interfacing parameters, such as the distance between the capillary tip and mass-spectrometer inlet, ESI voltage, and dry gas temperature and flow were optimized in order to attain good spray stability and high analyte signal-to-noise ratios. For CRBs the LODs ranged from 0.2 to 3.9ngL-1 (13nL injected, i.e., 2% of capillary volume), representing an improvement for certain CRBs of more than 300-fold when compared with conventional sheath-liquid interfacing. Good linearity (R2>0.99) and satisfactory reproducibility were obtained for all CRBs with interday RSD values for peak area and migration time of 4.0-11.3% and below 1.5%, respectively. Analysis of spiked mineral water showed that the new MEKC-MS/MS method allows selective and quantitative determination of CRB concentrations below the maximum residue limit of 100ngL-1 without the need for sample preconcentration.
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- David Moreno-González
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, E-18071 Granada, Spain
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- Division of BioAnalytical Chemistry, AIMMS research group BioMolecular Analysis, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, E-18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, E-18071 Granada, Spain
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- Biomolecular Analysis, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Division of BioAnalytical Chemistry, AIMMS research group BioMolecular Analysis, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Yan X, Sun L, Zhu G, Cox OF, Dovichi NJ. Over 4100 protein identifications from a Xenopus laevis fertilized egg digest using reversed-phase chromatographic prefractionation followed by capillary zone electrophoresis-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry analysis. Proteomics 2017; 16:2945-2952. [PMID: 27723263 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201600262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2016] [Revised: 09/14/2016] [Accepted: 10/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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A tryptic digest generated from Xenopus laevis fertilized embryos was fractionated by RPLC. One set of 30 fractions was analyzed by 100-min CZE-ESI-MS/MS separations (50 h total instrument time), and a second set of 15 fractions was analyzed by 3-h UPLC-ESI-MS/MS separations (45 h total instrument time). CZE-MS/MS produced 70% as many protein IDs (4134 versus 5787) and 60% as many peptide IDs (22 535 versus 36 848) as UPLC-MS/MS with similar instrument time (50 h versus 45 h) but with 50 times smaller total consumed sample amount (1.5 μg versus 75 μg). Surprisingly, CZE generated peaks that were 25% more intense than UPLC for peptides that were identified by both techniques, despite the 50-fold lower loading amount; this high sensitivity reflects the efficient ionization produced by the electrokinetically pumped nanospray interface used in CZE. This report is the first comparison of CZE-MS/MS and UPLC-MS/MS for large-scale eukaryotic proteomic analysis. The numbers of protein and peptide identifications produced by CZE-ESI-MS/MS approach those produced by UPLC-MS/MS, but with nearly two orders of magnitude lower sample amounts.
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- Xiaojing Yan
- Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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The Development of a Sheathless Interface for Capillary Electrophoresis Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Using a Cellulose Acetate Cast Capillary. Chromatographia 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s10337-017-3326-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Choi SB, Zamarbide M, Manzini MC, Nemes P. Tapered-Tip Capillary Electrophoresis Nano-Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Ultrasensitive Proteomics: the Mouse Cortex. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2017; 28:597-607. [PMID: 27853976 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-016-1532-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2016] [Revised: 10/16/2016] [Accepted: 10/18/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Ultrasensitive characterization of the proteome raises the potential to understand how differential gene expression orchestrates cell heterogeneity in the brain. Here, we report a microanalytical capillary electrophoresis nano-flow electrospray ionization (CE-nanoESI) interface for mass spectrometry to enable the measurement of limited amounts of proteins in the mouse cortex. Our design integrates a custom-built CE system to a tapered-tip metal emitter in a co-axial sheath-flow configuration. This interface can be constructed in <15 min using readily available components, facilitating broad adaptation. Tapered-tip CE-nanoESI generates stable electrospray by reproducibly anchoring the Taylor cone, minimizes sample dilution in the ion source, and ensures efficient ion generation by sustaining the cone-jet spraying regime. Parallel reaction monitoring provided a 260-zmol lower limit of detection for angiotensin II (156,000 copies). CE was able to resolve a complex mixture of peptides in ~330,000 theoretical plates and identify ~15 amol (~1 pg) of BSA or cytochrome c. Over 30 min of separation, 1 ng protein digest from the mouse cortex yielded 217 nonredundant proteins encompassing a ~3-log-order concentration range using a quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer. Identified proteins included many products from genes that are traditionally used to mark oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, and microglia. Finally, key proteins involved in neurodegenerative disorders were detected (e.g., parkinsonism and spastic paraplegia). CE-nanoESI-HRMS delivers sufficient sensitivity to detect proteins in limited amounts of tissues and cell populations to help understand how gene expression differences maintain cell heterogeneity in the brain. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Sam B Choi
- Department of Chemistry, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20037, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20037, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
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Morrison KA, Bendiak BK, Clowers BH. Enhanced Mixture Separations of Metal Adducted Tetrasaccharides Using Frequency Encoded Ion Mobility Separations and Tandem Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2017; 28:664-677. [PMID: 27796835 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-016-1505-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2016] [Revised: 09/08/2016] [Accepted: 09/09/2016] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Using five isomeric tetrasaccharides in combination with seven multivalent metals, the impact on mobility separations and resulting CID spectra were examined using a hybrid ion mobility atmospheric pressure drift tube system coupled with a linear ion trap. By enhancing the duty cycle of the drift tube system using a linearly chirped frequency, the collision-induced dissociation spectra were encoded in the mobility domain according to the drift times of each glycan isomer precursor. Differential fragmentation patterns correlated with precursor drift times ensured direct assignment of fragments with precursor structure whether as individual standards or in a mixture of isomers. In addition to certain metal ions providing higher degrees of separation than others, in select cases more than one arrival time distribution was observed for a single pure carbohydrate isomer. These observations suggest the existence of alternative coordination sites within a single monomeric species, but more interesting was the observation of different fragmentation ion yields for carbohydrate dimers formed through metal adduction. Positive-ion data were also compared with negative-ion species, where dimer formation did not occur and single peaks were observed for each isomeric tetrasaccharide-alditol. This enhanced analytical power has implications not only for carbohydrate molecules but also for a wide variety of complex mixtures of molecules where dissociation spectra may potentially be derived from combinations of monomeric, homodimeric, and heterodimeric species having identical nominal m/z values. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Kelsey A Morrison
- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, PO Box 644630, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and Program in Structural Biology and Biochemistry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Mail Stop 8108, 12801 E 17th Ave., Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, PO Box 644630, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA.
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Flaherty RJ, Sarver SA, Sun L, Brownell GA, Go DB, Dovichi NJ. A High Voltage Power Supply That Mitigates Current Reversals in Capillary Zone Electrophoresis-Electrospray Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2017; 28:247-252. [PMID: 27798763 PMCID: PMC5233603 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-016-1529-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2016] [Revised: 10/10/2016] [Accepted: 10/12/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Capillary electrophoresis coupled with electrospray ionization typically employs two power supplies, one at each end of the capillary. One power supply is located at the proximal (injection) end of the capillary. The power supply located at the distal (detector) end of the capillary drives the electrospray. Electrophoresis is driven by the difference in potential between these power supplies. Separations that employ large capillary inner diameter, high conductivity background electrolyte, and high separation potentials generate higher current than that produced by the electrospray. Excess current flows through the electrospray power supply. Most power supplies are not designed to sink current, and the excess current will cause the electrospray voltage to deviate from its set point. We report a simple circuit to handle this excess current, allowing separations under a wide range of electrophoretic conditions. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Ryan J Flaherty
- Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA.
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Rodrigues KT, Cieslarová Z, Tavares MFM, Simionato AVC. Strategies Involving Mass Spectrometry Combined with Capillary Electrophoresis in Metabolomics. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2017; 965:99-141. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47656-8_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Evaluation of a commercial electro-kinetically pumped sheath-flow nanospray interface coupled to an automated capillary zone electrophoresis system. Anal Bioanal Chem 2016; 409:1789-1795. [PMID: 27981343 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-016-0122-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2016] [Revised: 11/10/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Capillary zone electrophoresis-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (CZE-ESI-MS) is attracting renewed attention for proteomic and metabolomic analysis. An important reason for this interest is the maturation and commercialization of interfaces for coupling CZE with ESI-MS. One of these interfaces is an electro-kinetically pumped sheath flow nanospray interface developed by the Dovichi group, in which a very low sheath flow is generated based on electroosmosis within a glass emitter. CMP Scientific has commercialized this interface as the EMASS-II ion source. In this work, we compared the performance of the EMASS-II ion source with our in-house system. The performance of the systems is equivalent. We also coupled the EMASS-II ion source with a PrinCE Next|480 capillary electrophoresis autosampler and an Orbitrap mass spectrometer, and analyzed this system's performance in terms of sensitivity, reproducibility, and separation performance for separation of tryptic digests, intact proteins, and amino acids. The system produced reproducible analysis of BSA digest; the RSDs of peptide intensity and migration time across 24 runs were less than 20 and 6%, respectively. The system produced a linear calibration curve of intensity across a 30-fold range of tryptic digest concentration. The combination of a commercial autosampler and electrospray interface efficiently separated amino acids, peptides, and intact proteins, and only required 5 μL of sample for analysis. Graphical Abstract The commercial and locally constructed versions of the interface provide similar numbers of protein identifications from a Xenopus laevis fertilized egg digest.
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MacLennan MS, Tie C, Kovalchik K, Peru KM, Zhang X, Headley JV, Chen DDY. Potential of capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry for the characterization and monitoring of amine-derivatized naphthenic acids from oil sands process-affected water. J Environ Sci (China) 2016; 49:203-212. [PMID: 28007176 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2016.06.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2016] [Revised: 05/09/2016] [Accepted: 06/01/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry (CE-MS) was used for the analysis of naphthenic acid fraction compounds (NAFCs) of oil sands process-affected water (OSPW). A standard mixture of amine-derivatized naphthenic acids is injected directly onto the CE column and analyzed by CE-MS in less than 15min. Time of flight MS analysis (TOFMS), optimized for high molecular weight ions, showed NAFCs between 250 and 800m/z. With a quadrupole mass analyzer, only low-molecular weight NAFCs (between 100 and 450m/z) are visible under our experimental conditions. Derivatization of NAFCs consisted of two-step amidation reactions mediated by 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (EDC), or mediated by a mixture of EDC and N-hydroxysuccinimide, in dimethyl sulfoxide, dichloromethane or ethyl acetate. The optimum background electrolyte composition was determined to be 30% (V/V) methanol in water and 2% (V/V) formic acid. NAFCs extracted from OSPW in the Athabasca oil sands region were used to demonstrate the feasibility of CE-MS for the analysis of NAFCs in environmental samples, showing that the labeled naphthenic acids are in the mass range of 350 to 1500m/z.
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- Matthew S MacLennan
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100050, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Water Science and Technology Directorate, Science and Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Saskatoon, SK S7N 3H5, Canada
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada; Water Science and Technology Directorate, Science and Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Saskatoon, SK S7N 3H5, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada.
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Boizard F, Brunchault V, Moulos P, Breuil B, Klein J, Lounis N, Caubet C, Tellier S, Bascands JL, Decramer S, Schanstra JP, Buffin-Meyer B. A capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry pipeline for long term comparable assessment of the urinary metabolome. Sci Rep 2016; 6:34453. [PMID: 27694997 PMCID: PMC5046087 DOI: 10.1038/srep34453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2016] [Accepted: 09/14/2016] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
Abstract
Although capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry (CE-MS) has potential application in the field of metabolite profiling, very few studies actually used CE-MS to identify clinically useful body fluid metabolites. Here we present an optimized CE-MS setup and analysis pipeline to reproducibly explore the metabolite content of urine. We show that the use of a beveled tip capillary improves the sensitivity of detection over a flat tip. We also present a novel normalization procedure based on the use of endogenous stable urinary metabolites identified in the combined metabolome of 75 different urine samples from healthy and diseased individuals. This method allows a highly reproducible comparison of the same sample analyzed nearly 130 times over a range of 4 years. To demonstrate the use of this pipeline in clinical research we compared the urinary metabolome of 34 newborns with ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction and 15 healthy newborns. We identified 32 features with differential urinary abundance. Combination of the 32 compounds in a SVM classifier predicted with 76% sensitivity and 86% specificity UPJ obstruction in a separate validation cohort of 24 individuals. Thus, this study demonstrates the feasibility to use CE-MS as a tool for the identification of clinically relevant urinary metabolites.
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- Franck Boizard
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1048, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Equipe 12, 1 avenue Jean Poulhès, BP 84225, 31432 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.,Université Toulouse III Paul-Sabatier Toulouse, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1048, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Equipe 12, 1 avenue Jean Poulhès, BP 84225, 31432 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.,Université Toulouse III Paul-Sabatier Toulouse, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1048, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Equipe 12, 1 avenue Jean Poulhès, BP 84225, 31432 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.,Université Toulouse III Paul-Sabatier Toulouse, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1048, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Equipe 12, 1 avenue Jean Poulhès, BP 84225, 31432 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.,Université Toulouse III Paul-Sabatier Toulouse, France
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- Unité de Recherche Clinique Pédiatrique, Module Plurithématique Pédiatrique, Centre d'Investigation Clinique - Hôpital des Enfants, Toulouse, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1048, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Equipe 12, 1 avenue Jean Poulhès, BP 84225, 31432 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.,Université Toulouse III Paul-Sabatier Toulouse, France
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- CHU Toulouse, Hôpital des Enfants, Service de Néphrologie - Médecine Interne - Hypertension Pédiatrique, Toulouse, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1048, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Equipe 12, 1 avenue Jean Poulhès, BP 84225, 31432 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.,Université Toulouse III Paul-Sabatier Toulouse, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1048, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Equipe 12, 1 avenue Jean Poulhès, BP 84225, 31432 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.,Université Toulouse III Paul-Sabatier Toulouse, France.,CHU Toulouse, Hôpital des Enfants, Service de Néphrologie - Médecine Interne - Hypertension Pédiatrique, Toulouse, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1048, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Equipe 12, 1 avenue Jean Poulhès, BP 84225, 31432 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.,Université Toulouse III Paul-Sabatier Toulouse, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1048, Institut of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, Equipe 12, 1 avenue Jean Poulhès, BP 84225, 31432 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.,Université Toulouse III Paul-Sabatier Toulouse, France
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Zhang W, Gulersonmez MC, Hankemeier T, Ramautar R. Sheathless Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry for Metabolic Profiling of Biological Samples. J Vis Exp 2016. [PMID: 27768073 PMCID: PMC5092098 DOI: 10.3791/54535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
In metabolomics, a wide range of analytical techniques is used for the global profiling of (endogenous) metabolites in complex samples. In this paper, a protocol is presented for the analysis of anionic and cationic metabolites in biological samples by capillary electrophoresis–mass spectrometry (CE-MS). CE is well-suited for the analysis of highly polar and charged metabolites as compounds are separated on the basis of their charge-to-size ratio. A recently developed sheathless interfacing design, i.e., a porous tip interface, is used for coupling CE to electrospray ionization (ESI) MS. This interfacing approach allows the effective use of the intrinsically low-flow property of CE in combination with MS, resulting in nanomolar detection limits for a broad range of polar metabolite classes. The protocol presented here is based on employing a bare fused-silica capillary with a porous tip emitter at low-pH separation conditions for the analysis of a broad array of metabolite classes in biological samples. It is demonstrated that the same sheathless CE-MS method can be used for the profiling of cationic metabolites, including amino acids, nucleosides and small peptides, or anionic metabolites, including sugar phosphates, nucleotides and organic acids, by only switching the MS detection and separation voltage polarity. Highly information-rich metabolic profiles in various biological samples, such as urine, cerebrospinal fluid and extracts of the glioblastoma cell line, can be obtained by this protocol in less than 1 hr of CE-MS analysis.
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- Wei Zhang
- Division of Analytical Biosciences, Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research, Leiden University
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- Division of Analytical Biosciences, Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research, Leiden University
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- Division of Analytical Biosciences, Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research, Leiden University
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- Division of Analytical Biosciences, Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research, Leiden University;
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Kochmann S, Agostino FJ, LeBlanc JCY, Krylov SN. Hyphenation of Production-Scale Free-Flow Electrophoresis to Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Using a Highly Conductive Background Electrolyte. Anal Chem 2016; 88:8415-20. [PMID: 27462727 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b02235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In this technical note, we demonstrate the hyphenation of production-scale free-flow electrophoresis (FFE) and sheathless electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). In contrast to previous hyphenation approaches, we used a highly conductive background electrolyte (BGE) required for production-scale FFE. We found that this kind of BGE as well as a production-scale setup leads to significant electric interference between FFE and MS. This interference prevents steady-state FFE operation. We examine this interference in detail and discuss possible solutions to this issue. We demonstrate that the straightforward grounding of the transfer line removes the influence of ESI-MS on FFE, but creates a current leak from the ESI interface, which adversely affects the ESI spray. Furthermore, we show that only the electrical disconnection of the ESI probe from the FFE-MS transfer line suppresses this undesirable current. In order to facilitate the electrical disconnection we used a low conductivity, silica-based ESI probe with withdrawn inner capillary. This approach allowed the interference-free hyphenation of production-scale FFE (using a highly conductive BGE) with ESI-MS.
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- Sven Kochmann
- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Research on Biomolecular Interactions, York University , Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Research on Biomolecular Interactions, York University , Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Research on Biomolecular Interactions, York University , Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
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