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Deepa S, Madhu S, Devasenan S, Murali G, Pancharatna PD, Maaza M, Kaviyarasu K, Jeyaram S. Extraction of Natural Pigment Curcumin from Curcuma Longa: Spectral, DFT, Third-order Nonlinear Optical and Optical Limiting Study. J Fluoresc 2024; 34:1885-1892. [PMID: 37665510 DOI: 10.1007/s10895-023-03421-x] [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: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/28/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023]
Abstract
Herein, we report the extraction of natural pigment curcumin from curcuma longa and their linear and third-order nonlinear optical (NLO) characteristics. The characterization techniques viz., UV-Visible absorption, FT-IR, Micro Raman and Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrum (GC-MS) are used to study the spectral characteristics of curcumin. Third-order NLO features of curcumin are studied using Z‒scan technique with a semiconductor diode laser working at 405 nm wavelength. The natural pigment exhibits negative nonlinear index of refraction resulting from self-defocusing and positive coefficient of absorption is the consequence of reverse saturable absorption (RSA). The order of nonlinear index of refraction (n2) and nonlinear coefficient of absorption (β) is measured to be 10-7 cm2/W and 10-2 cm/W, respectively. Third-order NLO susceptibility (χ(3)) and second-order hyperpolarizability (γ) of curcumin is measured to be 2.73 × 10‒7 esu and 1.67 × 10‒31 esu, respectively. A low optical limiting (OL) threshold of 0.71 mW is observed in the extracted pigment. The experimental results are supplemented by quantum mechanical calculations of the NLO parameters. The overall result finding is that curcumin extracted from curcuma longa has the potential to be novel optical candidates for photonics and optoelectronics applications.
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- S Deepa
- Department of Chemistry, Takshashila University, Ongur (PO), Tindivanam, Villupuram ─ 604305, Tamilnadu, India
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- Department of Physics, Takshashila University, Ongur (PO), Tindivanam, Villupuram ─ 604305, Tamilnadu, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Takshashila University, Ongur (PO), Tindivanam, Villupuram ─ 604305, Tamilnadu, India
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- Scientific Officer, Nanotechnology Research Centre, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur-603203, Tamilnadu, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Takshashila University, Ongur (PO), Tindivanam, Villupuram ─ 604305, Tamilnadu, India
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- UNESCO-UNISA-iTLABS/NRF Africa Chair in Nano-Sciences & Nanotechnology, CGS, University of South Africa, Muckleeuk Ridge, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa
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- UNESCO-UNISA-iTLABS/NRF Africa Chair in Nano-Sciences & Nanotechnology, CGS, University of South Africa, Muckleeuk Ridge, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa
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- Department of Physics, Takshashila University, Ongur (PO), Tindivanam, Villupuram ─ 604305, Tamilnadu, India.
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Vázquez Alberdi L, Martínez-Busi M, Arrarte E, Echeverry C, Calero M, Kun A. A low dose of curcumin-PDA nanoparticles improves viability and proliferation in endoneurial fibroblasts and Schwann cell cultures. DISCOVER NANO 2024; 19:81. [PMID: 38714630 PMCID: PMC11076434 DOI: 10.1186/s11671-024-04023-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 04/23/2024] [Indexed: 05/10/2024]
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Curcumin is a polyphenol extracted from Curcuma longa's roots. Low doses of curcumin are related to anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and neuroprotective effects, while high doses are used for their lethality. This diversity of behaviors allows us to understand curcumin as a compound with hormetic action. Due to its strongly hydrophobic character, curcumin is often solubilized in organic compounds. In this way, we have recently reported the undesirable and occasionally irreversible effects of alcohol and DMSO on the viability of primary Schwann cell cultures. In this scenario, the use of nanoparticles as delivery systems has become a successful alternative strategy for these compounds. In the present work, we describe the structure of Polydopamine (PDA) nanoparticles, loaded with a low dose of curcumin (Curc-PDA) without the use of additional organic solvents. We analyzed the curcumin released, and we found two different forms of curcumin. Small increased cell viability and proliferation were observed in endoneurial fibroblast and Schwann cell primary cultures when Curc-PDA was steadily supplied for 5 days. The increased bioavailability of this natural compound and the impact on cells in culture not only confirm the properties of curcumin at very low doses but also provide a glimpse of a possible therapeutic alternative for PNS conditions in which SCs are involved.
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- Lucia Vázquez Alberdi
- Laboratorio de Biología Celular del Sistema Nervioso Periférico, Departamento de Proteínas y Ácidos Nucleicos, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- Laboratorio de Acústica, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Física, UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay.
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- Plataforma Química Analítica, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Área Fisicoquímica, Facultad de Química, UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Departamento de Neurobiología y Neuropatología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Unidad de Encefalopatías Espongiformes, UFIEC, CIBERNED, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Biología Celular del Sistema Nervioso Periférico, Departamento de Proteínas y Ácidos Nucleicos, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- Sección Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
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Chatterjee P, Dutta SS, Agarwal M, Dey S, Chakraborty T. UV-A-Induced Photoisomerization and Photodimerization of Curcumin: An Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Study. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:548-562. [PMID: 38206070 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c05933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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Curcumin, the bioactive compound present in spice plant turmeric, has been shown to exhibit selective phototoxic activities toward mammalian cancer cells, and it is being used extensively as a photosensitizer (PS) in photodynamic therapies (PDT). However, so far, the fate of curcumin toward photochemical transformations is not well understood. Here we report our findings of a number of novel photochemical reaction channels of curcumin in water-methanol mixture, like photoisomerization, photodimerization, and photooxidation (H2-loss). The reaction was performed by irradiating the curcumin solution with ultraviolet (UV) light of wavelength 350 nm, which is abundant in the earth's troposphere. Product identification and structure elucidation are done by employing an integrated method of drift tube ion mobility mass spectrometry (DTIMS) in combination with high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and collision-induced dissociation (CID) of the mass-selected molecular ions. Two photoisomers of curcumin produced as a result of trans-cis configurational changes about C═C double bonds in the excited state have been identified, and it has been shown that they could serve as the precursors for formation of isomeric dimers via [2 + 2] cycloaddition and H2-loss products. Comparisons of the experimentally measured collision cross-section (CCS) values of the reactant and product ions obtained by the DTIMS method with those predicted by the electronic structure theory are found to be very effective for the discrimination of the produced photoisomers. The observed photochemical reaction channels are potentially significant toward uses of curcumin as a photosensitizer in photodynamic therapy.
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- Piyali Chatterjee
- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja S C Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja S C Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja S C Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja S C Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja S C Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India
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Pshenichnyuk SA, Asfandiarov NL, Markova AV, Komolov AS, Timoshnikov VA, Polyakov NE. Elementary processes triggered in curcumin molecule by gas-phase resonance electron attachment and by photoexcitation in solution. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:214305. [PMID: 38051100 DOI: 10.1063/5.0180053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023] Open
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Electron-driven processes in isolated curcumin (CUR) molecules are studied by means of dissociative electron attachment (DEA) spectroscopy under gas-phase conditions. Elementary photostimulated reactions initiated in CUR molecules under UV irradiation are studied using the chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization method in an acetonitrile solvent. Density functional theory is applied to elucidate the energetics of fragmentation of CUR by low-energy (0-15 eV) resonance electron attachment and to characterize various CUR radical forms. The adiabatic electron affinity of CUR molecule is experimentally estimated to be about 1 eV. An extra electron attachment to the π1* LUMO and π2* molecular orbitals is responsible for the most intense DEA signals observed at thermal electron energy. The most abundant long-lived (hundreds of micro- to milliseconds) molecular negative ions CUR- are detected not only at the thermal energy of incident electrons but also at 0.6 eV, which is due to the formation of the π3* and π4* temporary negative ion states predicted to lie around 1 eV. Proton-assisted electron transfer between CUR molecules is registered under UV irradiation. The formation of both radical-anions and radical-cations of CUR is found to be more favorable in its enol form. The present findings shed some light on the elementary processes triggered in CUR by electrons and photons and, therefore, can be useful to understand the molecular mechanisms responsible for a variety of biological effects produced by CUR.
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- Stanislav A Pshenichnyuk
- Institute of Molecule and Crystal Physics, Ufa Federal Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Oktyabrya 151, 450075 Ufa, Russia
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- Institute of Molecule and Crystal Physics, Ufa Federal Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Oktyabrya 151, 450075 Ufa, Russia
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- Institute of Molecule and Crystal Physics, Ufa Federal Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Oktyabrya 151, 450075 Ufa, Russia
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- St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institutskaya str. 3, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institutskaya str. 3, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
- Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kutateladze 18, 630128 Novosibirsk, Russia
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Madinah R, Rusydi F, Fadilla RN, Khoirunisa V, Boli LSP, Saputro AG, Hassan NH, Ahmad A. First-Principles Study of the Dispersion Effects in the Structures and Keto-Enol Tautomerization of Curcumin. ACS OMEGA 2023; 8:34022-34033. [PMID: 37744805 PMCID: PMC10515353 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c04907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2023] [Accepted: 08/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/26/2023]
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Noncovalent interactions, such as dispersion, play a significant role in the stability of flexible molecules, such as curcumin. This study revealed the importance of dispersion correction in the structure and keto-enol tautomerization of curcumin, which has rarely been addressed in computational studies. We rigorously constructed all possible unique curcumin conformers in the enol and keto forms within the first-principles framework. Regardless of the different environments, we carefully explained the agreement between the computational geometry (in the gas phase) and the experimental measurement (in the polymorph) by using dispersion correction. The calculation results for the aqueous solution of conformational abundance, thermochemistry, and reaction kinetics support the experimental observations after considering the dispersion correction. The study also suggests a water-catalyzed mechanism for keto-enol tautomerization, where dispersion correction plays a role in decreasing the energy barrier and making the keto form thermochemically and kinetically favorable. Our results could be helpful in future computational studies to find a method for increasing the aqueous solubility of curcumin; hence, the potential of curcumin as a multifunctional medicine can be fully achieved.
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- Roichatul Madinah
- Department
of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia
- Research
Center for Quantum Engineering Design, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya 60115, Indonesia
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- Research
Center for Quantum Engineering Design, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya 60115, Indonesia
- Department
of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya 60115, Indonesia
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- Research
Center for Quantum Engineering Design, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya 60115, Indonesia
- Department
of Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Research
Center for Quantum Engineering Design, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya 60115, Indonesia
- Department
of Engineering Physics, Institut Teknologi
Sumatera, Jl. Terusan Ryacudu, Lampung Selatan 35365, Indonesia
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- Research
Center for Quantum Engineering Design, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya 60115, Indonesia
- Advanced
Functional Materials Research Group, Faculty of Industrial Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung 40132, Indonesia
- Physics Study
Program, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Jendral Soedirman, Purwokerto 53122, Indonesia
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- Advanced
Functional Materials Research Group, Faculty of Industrial Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung 40132, Indonesia
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia
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Rahman M, Singh JG, Afzal O, Altamimi AS, Alrobaian M, Haneef J, Barkat MA, Almalki WH, Handa M, Shukla R, Nasar Mir Najib Ullah S, Kumar V, Beg S. Preparation, Characterization, and Evaluation of Curcumin-Graphene Oxide Complex-Loaded Liposomes against Staphylococcus aureus in Topical Disease. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:43499-43509. [PMID: 36506117 PMCID: PMC9730485 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c03940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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This study describes the development and characterization of curcumin with graphene oxide complex (CUR + GO) loaded into liposomes for treating skin disease. The developed complex was characterized by X-ray diffraction and showed a broad halo pattern, confirming the amorphous nature of the resulting complex. Furthermore, scanning electron microscopy revealed the irregular porous morphology of the complex-highlighting loss of the crystallinity and the emergence of the amorphous phase. Additionally, the liposomes showed long-term stability at 2-8 °C and 25 ± 2 °C/60 ± 5%RH with nonsignificant variations in the particle size, polydispersity index, and zeta potential. Overall, optical and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy images of liposomes showed a consistent shape, and no aggregation with uniform particle size distribution was observed. Furthermore, the cumulative drug release in the first 6 h was 71.24 and 64.24% for CUR-loaded liposomes and CUR-GO-loaded liposomes, respectively. The lower value of drug release might be attributed to the complex development. The drug release model found the first order with non-Fickian diffusion process, which is often observed at higher n > 0.5. The antibacterial activity of the CUR with GO-loaded liposome (D2) offered higher anti-microbial activity over other formulations against the mentioned bacterial microorganism that causes skin diseases.
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- Mahfoozur Rahman
- Department
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shalom Institute of Health & Allied
Sciences, Sam Higginbottom University of
Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, Allahabad211007, India
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shalom Institute of Health & Allied
Sciences, Sam Higginbottom University of
Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, Allahabad211007, India
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj11942, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taif University, Taif21944, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical
Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi110062, India
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- Department
of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University
of Hafr Al Batin, Hafr Al
Batin39524, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah24382, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of
Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Raebareli, Lucknow, UP226002, India
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- Department
of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of
Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Raebareli, Lucknow, UP226002, India
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shalom Institute of Health & Allied
Sciences, Sam Higginbottom University of
Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, Allahabad211007, India
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- Department
of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi110062, India
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Feuerstein ML, Hernández-Mesa M, Valadbeigi Y, Le Bizec B, Hann S, Dervilly G, Causon T. Critical evaluation of the role of external calibration strategies for IM-MS. Anal Bioanal Chem 2022; 414:7483-7493. [PMID: 35960317 PMCID: PMC9482903 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-022-04263-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Revised: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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The major benefits of integrating ion mobility (IM) into LC-MS methods for small molecules are the additional separation dimension and especially the use of IM-derived collision cross sections (CCS) as an additional ion-specific identification parameter. Several large CCS databases are now available, but outliers in experimental interplatform IM-MS comparisons are identified as a critical issue for routine use of CCS databases for identity confirmation. We postulate that different routine external calibration strategies applied for traveling wave (TWIM-MS) in comparison to drift tube (DTIM-MS) and trapped ion mobility (TIM-MS) instruments is a critical factor affecting interplatform comparability. In this study, different external calibration approaches for IM-MS were experimentally evaluated for 87 steroids, for which TWCCSN2, DTCCSN2 and TIMCCSN2 are available. New reference CCSN2 values for commercially available and class-specific calibrant sets were established using DTIM-MS and the benefit of using consolidated reference values on comparability of CCSN2 values assessed. Furthermore, use of a new internal correction strategy based on stable isotope labelled (SIL) internal standards was shown to have potential for reducing systematic error in routine methods. After reducing bias for CCSN2 between different platforms using new reference values (95% of TWCCSN2 values fell within 1.29% of DTCCSN2 and 1.12% of TIMCCSN2 values, respectively), remaining outliers could be confidently classified and further studied using DFT calculations and CCSN2 predictions. Despite large uncertainties for in silico CCSN2 predictions, discrepancies in observed CCSN2 values across different IM-MS platforms as well as non-uniform arrival time distributions could be partly rationalized.
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- Max L Feuerstein
- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190, Vienna, Austria.
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