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Özçelik S, Öztekin N, Kıykım E, Cansever MŞ, Aktuğlu‐Zeybek AÇ. Capillary electrophoresis with capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection for the determination of urinary ethylmalonic acid for the diagnosis of ethylmalonic aciduria. J Sep Sci 2020; 43:1365-1371. [DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201901044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Revised: 12/30/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Sirun Özçelik
- Department of ChemistryTechnical University of Istanbul Istanbul Turkey
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- Department of ChemistryTechnical University of Istanbul Istanbul Turkey
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- Cerrahpaşa Medical FacultyDivision of Nutrition and MetabolismDepartment of PediatricsIstanbul University‐Cerrahpaşa Istanbul Turkey
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- Cerrahpaşa Medical FacultyDivision of Nutrition and MetabolismDepartment of PediatricsIstanbul University‐Cerrahpaşa Istanbul Turkey
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Fatemi MH, Elyasi M. Quantitative structure-retention relationship prediction of Kováts retention index of some organic acids. ACTA CHROMATOGR 2013. [DOI: 10.1556/achrom.25.2013.3.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Paik MJ, Li WY, Ahn YH, Lee PH, Choi S, Kim KR, Kim YM, Bang OY, Lee G. The free fatty acid metabolome in cerebral ischemia following human mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in rats. Clin Chim Acta 2009; 402:25-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2008.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2008] [Revised: 12/02/2008] [Accepted: 12/02/2008] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Pasikanti KK, Ho P, Chan E. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry in metabolic profiling of biological fluids. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2008; 871:202-11. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2008.04.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2008] [Revised: 04/14/2008] [Accepted: 04/23/2008] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1) is a mitogenactivated protein kinase (MAPK) kinase kinase that activates JNK and p38 kinases. ASK1 is activated by various stresses, such as reactive oxygen species (ROS), endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and calcium influx which are thought to be responsible for the pathogenesis or exacerbations of various human diseases. Recent studies revealed the involvement of ASK1 in ROS- or ER stressrelated diseases, suggesting that ASK1 may be a potential therapeutic target of various human diseases. In this review, we focus on the current findings for the relationship between pathogenesis and ASK1-MAPK pathways.
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- Hiroaki Nagai
- Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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Paik MJ, Lee KA, Park CS, Ahn YH, Lee G, Jeong R, Kim KR. Pattern recognition analysis of polyamines in the plasma of rat models with adenovirus infection. Clin Chim Acta 2007; 380:228-31. [PMID: 17350604 DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2007.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2006] [Revised: 02/01/2007] [Accepted: 02/02/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Paik MJ, Park KH, Park JJ, Kim KR, Ahn YH, Shin GT, Lee G. Patterns of Plasma Fatty Acids in Rat Models with Adenovirus Infection. BMB Rep 2007; 40:119-24. [PMID: 17244492 DOI: 10.5483/bmbrep.2007.40.1.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Adenoviral vectors are among the most promising vectors available for human gene therapy. However, the use of recombinant adenoviral vectors, including replicationcompetent adenovirus (RCA), raises a variety of safety concerns in relation to the development of new therapies based on gene therapy. To examine how organic compounds change in rat plasma following the injection of adenovirus, beta-galactosidase expressing recombinant adenovirus (designated rAdLacZ) or RCA, we investigated the content of fatty acids (FAs), which are important biochemical indicators in pathological conditions. Pattern recognition analysis on the level of FAs in rat plasma is described for the visual discrimination of adenovirus infection groups from normal controls. Plasma FAs from four control rats (normal group), and from four rats with rAdLacZ infection and six rats with RCA infection (the two abnormal groups), were examined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in selected ion monitoring modes as their tert-butyldimethylsilyl derivatives. In total, 20 FAs were positively detected and quantified. The results of the Studentos t-test on the normal mean of two abnormal groups, the levels of three FAs (p< 0.05) from rAdLacZ group and eleven FAs (p < 0.05) from RCA group were significantly different. When star symbol plotting was applied to the group mean values of 20 FAs after normalization to the corresponding normal mean values, the resulting eicosagonal star patterns of the two infected groups were distorted into similar shapes, but were distinguishable from each other. Thus, these approaches will be useful for screening and monitoring of diagnostic markers for the effects of infection following the use of adenoviral vectors in gene therapy.
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- Man Jeong Paik
- Biometabolite Analysis Laboratory, College of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
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Paik MJ, Lee S, Cho KH, Kim KR. Urinary polyamines and N-acetylated polyamines in four patients with Alzheimer's disease as their N-ethoxycarbonyl-N-pentafluoropropionyl derivatives by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in selected ion monitoring mode. Anal Chim Acta 2006; 576:55-60. [PMID: 17723614 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2006.01.070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2005] [Revised: 01/19/2006] [Accepted: 01/22/2006] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Simultaneous determination of putrescine, cadaverine, spermidine, spermine, N1-acetylputrescine, N1-acetylcadaverine, N1-acetylspermidine, N8-acetylspermidine and N1-acetylspermine in aqueous samples was achieved as their N-ethoxycarbonyl-N-pentafluoropropionyl derivatives by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) in selected ion monitoring (SIM) mode. The overall GC-SIM-MS method was linear (r> or =0.9987), repetitive (% relative standard deviation=1.3-6.4), and accurate (% relative error=-2.1-8.6). As compared to normal subjects, the levels of putrescine, N1-acetylspermine and spermine were significantly elevated while the levels of N1-acetylputrescine, N1-acetylcadaverine and N1-acetylspermidine were markedly reduced in all four Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. When star symbol plotting was applied to the normalized levels of nine polyamines relative to the corresponding normal mean values, each star pattern of the AD patients was deformed, thus being readily distinguishable from the nonagon shape of the normal group average.
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- Man-Jeong Paik
- Biometabolite Analysis Laboratory, College of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, South Korea
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Paik MJ, Lee HJ, Kim KR. Simultaneous retention index analysis of urinary amino acids and carboxylic acids for graphic recognition of abnormal state. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2005; 821:94-104. [PMID: 15894518 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2005.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2005] [Revised: 04/11/2005] [Accepted: 04/18/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Simultaneous profiling analysis of urinary amino acids (AAs) and carboxylic acids (CAs) was combined with retention index (I) analysis for graphic recognition of abnormal metabolic state. The temperature-programmed I values of the AA and CA standards measured as ethoxycarbonyl (EOC)/methoxime (MO)/tert-butyldimethylsilyl (TBDMS) derivatives were used as the reference I values. Urine samples were subjected to the sequential EOC, MO and TBDMS reactions for the analysis by gas chromatography (GC) and GC-mass spectrometry. The complex GC profiles were then transformed into their respective I patterns in bar graphic forms by plotting the normalized peak area ratios (%) of the identified AAs and CAs against their reference I values as the identification numbers. When the present method was applied to infant urine specimens from normal controls and patients with inherited metabolic diseases such as phenylketonuria, maple syrup urine disease, methylmalonic aciduria or isovaleric aciduria, each I pattern of bar graph more distinctly displayed quantitative abundances of urinary AAs and CAs in qualitative I scale, thus allowing graphic discrimination between normal and abnormal states.
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- Man-Jeong Paik
- Biometabolite Analysis Laboratory, College of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Chunchun-dong, Suwon, Kyunggi-do 440-746, South Korea
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Paik MJ, Kim KR. Sequential ethoxycarbonylation, methoximation and tert-butyldimethylsilylation for simultaneous determination of amino acids and carboxylic acids by dual-column gas chromatography. J Chromatogr A 2004; 1034:13-23. [PMID: 15116910 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2004.02.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Amino acids (AAs) in alkaline solution were first ethoxycarbonylated with subsequent methoximation of keto acids (KAs). After acidification and solid-phase extraction, tert-butyldimethylsilylation was performed for direct analysis by gas chromatography (GC) on dual-columns with different polarities, which provided simultaneous separation of multiple amino acids, carboxylic acids (CAs) and keto acids, facilitating accurate peak confirmation based on matching with retention index sets characteristic of each analyte. The present method was linear (r2 > or = 0.9955) with good precision (0.1-9.4%) and accuracy (-8.6 to 9.9%), allowing simultaneous screening for diagnostic amino acids along with carboxylic acids and keto acids in urine from a phenylketonuria patient.
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- Man-Jeong Paik
- College of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Kyunggi-do 440-746, South Korea
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La S, Cho J, Kim JH, Kim KR. Capillary electrophoretic profiling and pattern recognition analysis of urinary nucleosides from thyroid cancer patients. Anal Chim Acta 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2670(03)00473-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Sobolevsky TG, Chernetsova ES, Revelsky AI, Revelsky IA, Starostin AB, Miller B, Oriedo V. Electron ionization mass spectra and their reproducibility for trialkylsilylated derivatives of organic acids, sugars and alcohols. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2003; 9:487-495. [PMID: 14624018 DOI: 10.1255/ejms.580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Mass spectra of trialkylsilyl derivatives of fatty acids, dicarboxylic acids, hydroxyacids, oxoacids, sugars, amino acids and alcohols were obtained. Amino acids were analyzed as tert-butyldimethylsilyl derivatives; all other model compounds were analyzed as trimethylsilyl derivatives. Reproducibility of the electron ionization (EI) mass spectra for the derivatives obtained was discussed. It was shown that, for many investigated derivatives, composition of the respective mass spectra depended greatly on ion source contamination. The trimethylsilylated alpha-tocopherol mass spectrum composition was most significantly influenced by ion source contamination. This compound can be used to test ion source contamination.
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- Tim G Sobolevsky
- Chemistry Department, Chair of Analytical Chemistry, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, bld. 2, 119992 GSP-2 Moscow, Russian Federation.
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Rao RN, Nagaraju D, Parimala P, Adapa SR, Alam MM. Development and substantiation of a liquid chromatographic method for monitoring organic reactions involved in synthesis of 4-methoxyphenylacetic acid. J Chromatogr A 2002; 972:277-82. [PMID: 12416886 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(02)01119-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A simple and rapid reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic method for monitoring the reactions involved in two different processes for the production of 4-methoxyphenylacetic acid (PMPA) was developed. Impurity profiles of PMPA were used for fingerprinting of the two different synthetic processes by HPLC. Impurities were separated and determined on a Hypersil C18 column with acetonitrile-0.1 M potassium dihydrogen orthophosphate-triethylamine (40:59.95:0.05, v/v) (pH 3.0) as the mobile phase and detection at 280 nm at ambient temperature. The method was substantiated with respect to accuracy, precision, linearity, robustness, limit of detection and quantification. The method was found to be suitable not only for monitoring the reactions but also for quality assurance of PMPA as it could detect impurities at the level of 4 x 10(-9) g.
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- R Nageswara Rao
- Division of Analytical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Tarnaka, Hyderabad.
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Paik MJ, Kim KR, Yoon HR, Kim HJ. Diagnostic patterns of very-long-chain fatty acids in plasma of patients with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY. B, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND APPLICATIONS 2001; 760:149-57. [PMID: 11522057 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4347(01)00263-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Pattern recognition analysis on the levels of the very-long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) in plasma is described for the visual discrimination of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) patients from normal healthy group. Plasma VLCFA compositions of 58 normal subjects and 16 X-ALD patients were examined by gas chromatography as their methyl esters to determine the area percentages of behenic acid (C22:0), lignoceric acid (C24:0) and hexacosanoic acid (C26:0) in the total fatty acids, and the concentration (microg/ml) of C26:0. When star symbol plotting was applied to the VLCFA values of C22:0 (%), C24:0 (%), C26:0 (%), C24:0/C22:0, C26:0/C22:0 and C26:0 (microg/ml) after normalization to the corresponding median values in normal group, the resulting deformed hexagonal star pattern was characteristic of each patient. Therefore, simple visual comparison with the equilateral hexagon of normal group average as the control pattern enabled one readily to discriminate X-ALD patients from the normal group. Additionally, canonical discriminant analysis performed on the six unnormalized VLCFA values correctly classified 74 plasma specimens into two separate clusters according to normal subject or X-ALD patient in the canonical plot.
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- M J Paik
- Seoul Clinical Laboratories (SCL), Seoul Medical Science Institute, South Korea
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Wahl HG, Hong Q, Stübe D, Maier ME, Häring HU, Liebich HM. Simultaneous analysis of the di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate metabolites 2-ethylhexanoic acid, 2-ethyl-3-hydroxyhexanoic acid and 2-ethyl-3-oxohexanoic acid in urine by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY. B, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND APPLICATIONS 2001; 758:213-9. [PMID: 11486831 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4347(01)00183-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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A gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric method was developed for the quantitative analysis of the three Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) metabolites, 2-ethylhexanoic acid, 2-ethyl-3-hydroxyhexanoic acid and 2-ethyl-3-oxohexanoic acid in urine. After oximation with O-(2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorobenzyl)-hydroxylamine hydrochloride and sample clean-up with Chromosorb P filled glass tubes, all three organic acids were converted to their tert.-butyldimethylsilyl derivatives. Quantitation was done with trans-cinnamic acid as internal standard and GC-MS analysis in the selected ion monitoring mode (SIM). Calibration curves for all three acids in the range from 20 to 1,000 microg/l showed correlation coefficients from 0.9972 to 0.9986. The relative standard deviation (RSD) values determined in the observed concentration range were between 1.3 and 8.9% for all three acids. Here we report for the first time the identification of 2-ethyl-3-hydroxyhexanoic acid and 2-ethyl-3-oxohexanoic acid in human urine next to the known DEHP metabolite 2-ethylhexanoic acid. In 28 urine samples from healthy persons we found all three acids with mean concentrations of 56.1 +/- 13.5 microg/l for 2-ethylhexanoic acid, 104.8 +/- 80.6 microg/l for 2-ethyl-3-hydroxyhexanoic acid and 482.2 +/- 389.5 microg/l for 2-ethyl-3-oxohexanoic acid.
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- H G Wahl
- Medizinische Universitätsklinik Abt. IV, Zentrallabor, Tübingen, Germany.
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Kim KR, La S, Kim A, Kim JH, Liebich HM. Capillary electrophoretic profiling and pattern recognition analysis of urinary nucleosides from uterine myoma and cervical cancer patients. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY. B, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND APPLICATIONS 2001; 754:97-106. [PMID: 11318432 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4347(00)00585-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Capillary electrophoretic (CE) profiling analysis combined with pattern recognition methods is described for the correlation between urinary nucleoside profiles and uterine cervical cancer. Nucleosides were extracted from urine specimens by solid-phase extraction in affinity mode using phenylboronic acid gel. CE separation was carried out with an uncoated fused-silica capillary (570 mm x 50 microm I.D.) maintained at 20 degrees C, using 25 mM borate-42.5 mM phosphate buffer (pH 6.7) containing 200 mM sodium dodecyl sulfate as the run buffer under the applied voltage of 20 kV. A total of 15 nucleosides were positively identified in urine samples (2 ml) from eight uterine myoma (benign tumor group), 10 uterine cervical cancer (malignant tumor group) patients and 10 healthy females (normal group) studied. The star symbol plots drawn based on each mean concentration of nucleosides normalized to that in normal group enabled one to discriminate malignant and benign groups from normal group. In addition, canonical discriminant analysis performed on the nucleoside data of 28 individual urine specimens correctly classified into three separate clusters according to groups in the canonical plot.
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- K R Kim
- College of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea.
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Kim KR, Lee J, Ha D, Jeon J, Park HG, Kim JH. Enantiomeric separation and discrimination of 2-hydroxy acids as O-trifluoroacetylated (S)-(+)-3-methyl-2-butyl esters by achiral dual-capillary column gas chromatography. J Chromatogr A 2000; 874:91-100. [PMID: 10768503 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(00)00072-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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An efficient method is described for the simultaneous enantiomeric separation of 18 different racemic 2-hydroxy acids for the determination of their absolute configurations. It involves the conversion of each enantiomer into a diastereomeric O-trifluoroacetylated (S)-(+)-3-methyl-2-butyl ester for the direct separation by achiral dual-capillary column gas chromatography with subsequent identification and determination of its chirality by retention index (I) library matching. The enantiomers of each acid were well separated with high resolution values (R > or = 1.4) on DB-5 and DB-17 columns of different polarity. When temperature-programmed I values of 2-hydroxy acid enantiomers as their diastereomeric derivatives were measured on both columns, the I values were characteristic of each enantiomer. Simple I matching with the reference values was thus useful in cross-checking each acid enantiomer for the identification and chiral discrimination. When applied to urine samples, the present method allowed positive identification of most of the spiked 2-hydroxy acids from normal urine and for endogenous (S)-lactic acid and (S)-2-hydroxybutyric acid from a clinical urine specimen.
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- K R Kim
- College of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea.
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Kim KR, Park HG, Paik MJ, Ryu HS, Oh KS, Myung SW, Liebich HM. Gas chromatographic profiling and pattern recognition analysis of urinary organic acids from uterine myoma patients and cervical cancer patients. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY. B, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND APPLICATIONS 1998; 712:11-22. [PMID: 9698224 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4347(98)00155-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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An efficient organic acid profiling and pattern recognition method is described for the correlation between urinary organic acid profiles and uterine cervical cancer. After methoximation of keto acids in alkalinized urine samples, all free organic acids were recovered by a dual solid-phase extraction procedure, followed by conversion to tert.-butyldimethylsilyl derivatives for the profiling analysis by dual-capillary column gas chromatography (GC) with subsequent screening for acids by retention index (I) library matching. A total of 50 organic acids were positively identified in urine samples (0.25 ml) from 12 uterine myoma (benign tumor group) and 14 uterine cervical cancer (malignant tumor group) patients studied. When the GC profiles were simplified to their corresponding organic acid I spectra in bar graphical form, characteristic patterns were obtained for each average of benign and malignant tumor groups. Stepwise discriminant analysis performed on the GC data selected 16 acids as the variables discriminating between the two groups. Canonical discriminant analysis applied to these 16 variables correctly classified 26 urine samples into two separate clusters according to tumor types in the canonical plot.
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- K R Kim
- College of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
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