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Zhang Y, Huang Y, Li Y, Zhang Z, Zuo Q, Zheng Y, Zhang Z. Influence of ZnO morphology on the capability of portable paper-based electrospray ionization mass spectrometry to determine therapeutic drugs in complex matrices. Drug Test Anal 2024. [PMID: 38192164 DOI: 10.1002/dta.3639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
Abstract
Adsorbents play a significant role in enhancing the analytical sensitivity of target analytes in complex samples by mitigating matrix effects. In our recent report, ZnO stood out among various adsorbents to determine target therapeutic drugs in complex biological matrices when applied for portable paper-based electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (PPESI-MS). However, the influence of the morphology of ZnO on the performance of PPESI-MS is elusive. Herein, different morphologies of ZnO particles were prepared via co-precipitation or ultrasonic methods, and their capability to determine different therapeutic drugs in serum were systemically investigated. The results demonstrated that flower-shaped ZnO gave a superior capacity, and its analysis sensitivity was 2.9-12.8-fold higher than those achieved with other ZnO morphologies. Further characterization revealed that the unique performance of flower-shaped ZnO was closely associated with its favorable desorption behavior to drugs, small spray plume, and few spray emitters at the tip of coated paper substrate. To illustrate the potential of flower-shaped ZnO, its coated paper was used as a substrate for the determination of various drugs in complex matrices such as serum, and a limit of detection as low as 2 pg mL-1 was achieved. The corresponding recoveries ranged from 93.2% to 107.2%. The developed protocol is promising in high-sensitivity analysis of target drugs in complex sample matrices.
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- Yan Zhang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an Shiyou University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an Shiyou University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an Shiyou University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an Shiyou University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an Shiyou University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an Shiyou University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an Shiyou University, Xi'an, China
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Deng J, Xie J, Lu Q, Xiao X, Wu Y, Liu N, Luo L, Luan T, Yang Y. Nanospray Laser-Induced Plasma Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Rapid and Sensitive Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Halogenated Derivatives. Anal Chem 2023; 95:16791-16795. [PMID: 37937882 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c04378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2023]
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and halogenated derivatives are a series of environmental pollutants with potential toxicity and health risks on biosystems and the ecosystem. Rapid and sensitive analysis of trace PAHs and halogenated PAHs in complex environmental samples is a challenging topic for analytical science. Here we report the development of a nanospray laser-induced plasma ionization MS method for rapid and sensitive analysis of trace PAHs and halogenated PAHs under ambient and open-air conditions. A nanospray tip was applied for loading samples and placed pointing to the MS inlet, being a nanospray emitter with the application of a high voltage. A beam of laser was focused to induce energetic plasma between the nanospray emitter and the MS inlet for ionization of PAHs and halogenated PAHs for mass spectrometric analysis. Meanwhile, an inner-wall naphthyl-coated nanospray emitter was developed and applied as a solid-phase microextraction (SPME) probe for highly selective enrichment of trace PAHs and halogenated PAHs in complex environmental samples, and some organic solvent was applied to desorb the analytes for nanospray laser-induced plasma ionization MS analysis. Satisfactory linearity for each target PAH and halogenated PAH was obtained, with correlation coefficient values (r) no less than 0.9917. The method showed extremely high sensitivity for analysis of trace PAHs and halogenated PAHs in water, with limits of detection (LODs) and quantification (LOQs) of 0.0001-0.02 and 0.0003-0.08 μg/L, respectively. By using the inner-wall naphthyl-coated nanospray laser-induced plasma ionization MS method, sensitive detection of trace PAHs and halogenated PAHs in real sewage and wastewater samples was successfully achieved.
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- Jiewei Deng
- School of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
- Smart Medical Innovation Technology Center, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China
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- Biomedical Research Institute, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China
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- Guangdong Women and Children Hospital, Guangzhou 511400, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Ambient Mass Spectrometry, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Chemical Measurement and Emergency Test Technology, Institute of Analysis, Guangdong Academy of Sciences (China National Analytical Center, Guangzhou), 100 Xianlie Middle Road, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Quality Improvement and Ecological Restoration for Watersheds, School of Ecology, Environment and Resources, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
- Smart Medical Innovation Technology Center, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
- School of Biotechnology and Health Sciences, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Ambient Mass Spectrometry, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Chemical Measurement and Emergency Test Technology, Institute of Analysis, Guangdong Academy of Sciences (China National Analytical Center, Guangzhou), 100 Xianlie Middle Road, Guangzhou 510070, China
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You Y, Song L, Young MD, van der Wielen M, Evans-Nguyen T, Riedel J, Shelley JT. Unsupervised Reconstruction of Analyte-Specific Mass Spectra Based on Time-Domain Morphology with a Modified Cross-Correlation Approach. Anal Chem 2021; 93:5009-5014. [PMID: 33729743 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04396] [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]
Abstract
Concomitant species that appear at the same or very similar times in a mass-spectral analysis can clutter a spectrum because of the coexistence of many analyte-related ions (e.g., molecular ions, adducts, fragments). One method to extract ions stemming from the same origin is to exploit the chemical information encoded in the time domain, where the individual temporal appearances inside the complex structures of chronograms or chromatograms differ with respect to analytes. By grouping ions with very similar or identical time-domain structures, single-component mass spectra can be reconstructed, which are much easier to interpret and are library-searchable. While many other approaches address similar objectives through the Pearson's correlation coefficient, we explore an alternative method based on a modified cross-correlation algorithm to compute a metric that describes the degree of similarity between features inside any two ion chronograms. Furthermore, an automatic workflow was devised to be capable of categorizing thousands of mass-spectral peaks into different groups within a few seconds. This approach was tested with direct mass-spectrometric analyses as well as with a simple, fast, and poorly resolved LC-MS analysis. Single-component mass spectra were extracted in both cases and were identified based on accurate mass and a mass-spectral library search.
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- Yi You
- Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin D-12489, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33637, United States
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- Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin D-12489, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, United States
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Yu X, He M, Chen B, Hu B. Recent advances in single-cell analysis by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry: A review. Anal Chim Acta 2020; 1137:191-207. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2020.07.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2020] [Revised: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Zhao Z, Lin Q, Feng Y, Zhou Y, Wang X. Determination of monosaccharides hydrolyzed from polysaccharides in activated sludge by ion chromatography-mass spectrometry with online pretreatment of column switching technique. Anal Bioanal Chem 2020; 412:8061-8071. [PMID: 32975656 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02955-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Revised: 08/28/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
Abstract
The simultaneous determination of monosaccharides present in the activated sludge would be crucial to understand the water treatment mechanism. Herein, an ion chromatography-mass spectrometry (IC-MS) with online pretreatment of column switching technique was proposed to analyze monosaccharides hydrolyzed from extracellular polysaccharides in the activated sludge. When the matrix was eliminated in the first dimension, monosaccharides were immediately identified by IC-MS. The improved ionization efficiency was achieved with the addition of T-joint prior to MS. During the performance test, our established method showed excellent detection limits ranging from 0.34 to 2.15 μg/L for all sugar targets. Great linearity (R ≥ 0.9955) was also achieved using this method in the range from 0.01 to 5 mg/L. Furthermore, the average recoveries were obtained between 84.82 and 113.46%. RSDs for peak areas and retention times were determined as 3.76% and 0.27%, respectively. Finally, this approach provided a rapid, convenient, and practical determination of monosaccharides in the activated sludge, which would be helpful for the analysis of monosaccharides derived from other biological samples.
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- Zhendong Zhao
- Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment and Resource Reuse of Hainan Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, 571158, Hainan, China.,Analytical and Testing Center, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, Hainan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment and Resource Reuse of Hainan Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, 571158, Hainan, China.
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- Analytical and Testing Center, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, Hainan, China. .,School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, Hainan, China.
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, Hainan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment and Resource Reuse of Hainan Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, 571158, Hainan, China
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