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Vijayakumar S, Schwaighofer A, Ramer G, Lendl B. Multivariate curve resolution -alternating least squares augmented with partial least squares baseline correction applied to mid-IR laser spectra resolves protein denaturation by reducing rotational ambiguity. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2024; 315:124228. [PMID: 38593537 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2024.124228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2024] [Revised: 03/20/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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High spectral power density provided by advances in external cavity quantum cascade lasers (EC-QCL) have enabled increased transmission path lengths in mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy for more sensitive measurement of proteins in aqueous solutions. These extended path lengths also facilitate flow through measurements by avoiding congestion of the flow cell by protein aggregates. Despite the advantages presented by laser-based mid-IR spectroscopy of proteins, extraction of secondary structure information from spectra, especially in the presence of complex multi-component matrices with overlapping spectral features, remains an impediment that requires fine tuning of evaluation algorithms (e.g., band fitting, interpretation of second derivative spectra etc.). In this work, the use of multivariate curve resolution alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) for the analysis of a chemical de- and renaturation experiment has been demonstrated, since this technique offers the second-order advantage of extracting spectral signatures and concentration profiles even in the presence of unknown, uncalibrated constituents. Furthermore, we exhibit a partial least squares regression (PLSR) based subtraction of matrix component spectra prior to MCR-ALS as a method to obtain secondary structure information even in the absence of reference spectra. These approaches are showcased using the online reaction monitoring of the titration of β-lactoglobulin (β-LG) in water against the surfactants sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and octaethylene glyol monododecyl ether (C12E8), using a commercially available laser-based IR spectrometer. Results for the automated PLSR correction plus MCR-ALS approach compare favorably to an MCR-ALS standalone approach using initial estimates as well as analysis of secondary structure using data processed with a manual baseline correction. The herein described chemometric approach suggests a way to simplify the challenge of handling complex matrices in protein structure analysis by isolating the background from the protein contributions, prior to analysis via other soft-modelling techniques. Consequently, the findings of this study indicate the suitability of online reaction monitoring through mid-IR spectroscopy combined with chemometric techniques as a potential tool in downstream quality control and process automation.
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- Shilpa Vijayakumar
- Research Division of Environmental Analytics, Process Analytics and Sensors, Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, TU Wien, Getreidemarkt 9, Vienna 1060, Austria
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- Research Division of Environmental Analytics, Process Analytics and Sensors, Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, TU Wien, Getreidemarkt 9, Vienna 1060, Austria
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- Research Division of Environmental Analytics, Process Analytics and Sensors, Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, TU Wien, Getreidemarkt 9, Vienna 1060, Austria.
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- Research Division of Environmental Analytics, Process Analytics and Sensors, Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, TU Wien, Getreidemarkt 9, Vienna 1060, Austria.
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Offroy M, Marchetti M, Kauffmann TH, Bourson P, Duponchel L, Savarese L, Mechling JM. Using clustering as pre-processing in the framework of signal unmixing for exhaustive exploration of archaeological artefacts in Raman imaging. Talanta 2024; 274:125955. [PMID: 38552475 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2024.125955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2023] [Revised: 03/14/2024] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/04/2024]
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Analytical chemistry on archaeological material is an essential part of modern archaeological investigations and from year to year, instrumental improvement has made it possible to generate data at a high spatial and temporal frequency. In particular, Raman spectral imaging can be successfully applied in archaeological research by its simplicity of implementation to study past human societies through the analysis of their material remains. This technique makes it possible to simultaneously obtain spatial and spectral information by preserving sample integrity. However, because of the inherent complexity of the samples in Archaeology (e.g. seniority, fragility, lack or full absence of any information about its composition), chemical interpretation can be difficult at first glance. Indeed, specific problems of spectral selectivity related to unexpected chemical compounds could appear due to their state of conservation. Furthermore, detecting minor compounds becomes challenging as major components impose their contributions in the acquired spectra. Therefore, a relevant chemometric approach has been introduced in this context to characterize distinct spectral sources in a Raman imaging dataset of an archaeological specimen - a mosaic fragment. The fragment was unearthed during the Ruscino archaeological dig on the outskirts of Perpignan, France. It dates back to the oppidum period. The aim is to extract selective spectral information from pixel clustering analysis in order to enhance the initial optimisation step within the Multivariate Curve Resolution and Alternating Least-Squares (MCR-ALS) algorithm, a well-known signal unmixing technique. The underlying principle of the MCR-ALS is that the acquired spectra can be expressed as linear combinations of pure spectra of all individual components present in the chemical system under study. Sometimes it can be difficult to obtain the desired results through the algorithm, particularly if initial estimates of spectral or concentration profiles are inaccurate due to complex signals, noise or lack of selectivity, resulting in rank deficiency (i.e. a poor estimation of the total number of pure signals). For this reason, an innovative threshold-based clustering algorithm, combined with multiple Orthogonal Projection Approaches (OPA), has been developed to improve matrix rank investigation and thus the initialisation step of the MCR-ALS approach before optimisation. The effective analysis of Raman imaging data for an archaeological mosaic played a crucial role in uncovering significant chemical information about a particular biogenic material. This insight sheds light on the origins of mortar manufacture during the oppidum period.
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- Marc Offroy
- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LIEC, F-54000, Nancy, France.
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- Université Gustave Eiffel, MAST, FM2D, IFSTTAR, 14-20 Boulevard Newton, Cité Descartes, Champs sur Marne, F-77447, Marne La Vallée Cedex 2, France; Université de Lorraine, CNRS, IJL, F-54000, Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CentraleSupelec, LMOPS, F-57000, Metz, France
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- Centre de Recherches Archéologiques de Ruscino, Ville de Perpignan, Chercheur Associé UMR 5140 TESAM, France
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Alaoui Mansouri M, Kharbach M, Bouklouze A. Current Applications of Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares ( MCR-ALS) in Pharmaceutical Analysis: Review. J Pharm Sci 2024; 113:856-865. [PMID: 38072117 DOI: 10.1016/j.xphs.2023.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Revised: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 12/22/2023]
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The present review encompasses various applications of multivariate curve resolution- alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) as a promising data handling, which is issued by analytical techniques in pharmaceutics. It involves different sections starting from a concise theory of MCR-ALS and four detailed applications in drugs analysis. Dissolution, stability, polymorphism, and quantification are the main four detailed applications. The data generated by analytical techniques associated with MCR-ALS deals accurately with different challenges compared to other chemometric tools. For each reviewed purpose, it was explained how MCR-ALS was applied and detailed information was given. Different approaches were introduced to overcome challenges that limit the use of MCR-ALS efficiently in pharmaceutical mixture were also discussed.
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- Mohammed Alaoui Mansouri
- Nano and Molecular Systems Research Unit, University of Oulu, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland; University of Liege (ULiege), CIRM, Vibra-Santé HUB, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry, CHU, B36, B-4000, Liege, Belgium.
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- Research Unit of Mathematical Sciences, University of Oulu, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland.
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- Bio-Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Analysis Research Team, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
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Karimvand SK, Pahlevan A, Zade SV, Jafari JM, Abdollahi H. Multivariate curve resolution-soft independent modelling of class analogy (MCR-SIMCA). Anal Chim Acta 2024; 1291:342205. [PMID: 38280780 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2024.342205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Revised: 12/25/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 01/29/2024]
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BACKGROUND Various classification, class modeling, and clustering techniques operate within abstract spaces, utilizing Principal Components (e.g., Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Principal Component Analysis (PCA)) or latent variable spaces (e.g., Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA)). It's important to note that PCA, despite being a mathematical tool, defines its Principal Components under certain mathematical constraints, it has a wide range of applications in the analysis of real-world systems. In this research, we assess the viability of employing the Multivariate Curve Resolution (MCR) subspace within class modeling techniques, as an alternative to the PC subspace. (92). RESULTS This study evaluates the use of the MCR subspace in class modeling methods, specifically in tandem with soft independent modeling of class analogy (SIMCA), to investigate the advantages of employing the meaningful physico-chemical subspace of MCR over the mathematical subspace of PCA. In the MCR-SIMCA strategy, the model is constructed by applying MCR to training samples from a target class. The MCR model effectively partitions the data into two smaller sub-matrices: the contribution matrix and the corresponding response matrix. In the next step, the contribution matrix resulting from the decomposition of the training set develops a distance plot (DP). First, the theory of the MCR-SIMCA model is discussed in detail. Next, two real experimental datasets were analyzed, and their performance was compared with the DD-SIMCA model. In most cases, the results were as good as or even more satisfactory than those obtained with the DD-SIMCA model. (146). SIGNIFICANCE The suggested class modeling method presents a promising avenue for the analysis of real-world natural systems. The study's results emphasize the practical utility of the MCR approach, underscoring the significance of the MCR subspace advantages over the PCA subspace. (39).
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, P.O. Box 45195-1159, Zanjan, Iran
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- Halal Research Center of IRI, Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, P.O. Box 45195-1159, Zanjan, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, P.O. Box 45195-1159, Zanjan, Iran.
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Venegas S, Alarcón C, Araya J, Gatica M, Morin V, Tarifeño-Saldivia E, Uribe E. Biodegradation of Polystyrene by Galleria mellonella: Identification of Potential Enzymes Involved in the Degradative Pathway. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:1576. [PMID: 38338857 PMCID: PMC10855133 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25031576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2023] [Revised: 01/11/2024] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
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Galleria mellonella is a lepidopteran whose larval stage has shown the ability to degrade polystyrene (PS), one of the most recalcitrant plastics to biodegradation. In the present study, we fed G. mellonella larvae with PS for 54 days and determined candidate enzymes for its degradation. We first confirmed the biodegradation of PS by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy- Attenuated total reflectance (FTIR-ATR) and then identified candidate enzymes in the larval gut by proteomic analysis using liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Two of these proteins have structural similarities to the styrene-degrading enzymes described so far. In addition, potential hydrolases, isomerases, dehydrogenases, and oxidases were identified that show little similarity to the bacterial enzymes that degrade styrene. However, their response to a diet based solely on polystyrene makes them interesting candidates as a potential new group of polystyrene-metabolizing enzymes in eukaryotes.
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- Sebastián Venegas
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Concepción, Concepción 4070409, Chile; (S.V.); (C.A.); (M.G.); (V.M.)
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Concepción, Concepción 4070409, Chile; (S.V.); (C.A.); (M.G.); (V.M.)
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- Department of Instrumental Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Concepción, Concepción 4070409, Chile;
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Concepción, Concepción 4070409, Chile; (S.V.); (C.A.); (M.G.); (V.M.)
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Concepción, Concepción 4070409, Chile; (S.V.); (C.A.); (M.G.); (V.M.)
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Concepción, Concepción 4070409, Chile; (S.V.); (C.A.); (M.G.); (V.M.)
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- Department of Instrumental Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Concepción, Concepción 4070409, Chile;
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Noda I. Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy (2D-COS) Analysis of Evolving Hyperspectral Images. Appl Spectrosc 2024:37028231222011. [PMID: 38178788 DOI: 10.1177/00037028231222011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2024]
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The evolutionary behavior is examined for heterogeneously distributed hyperspectral images of a simulated biological tissue sample comprising lipid-like and protein-like components during the aging process. Taking a simple planar average of a spectral image loses useful information about the spatially resolved nature of the data. In contrast, multivariate curve resolution (MCR) analysis of a spectral image at a given stage of aging produces a set of loadings of major component groups. Each loading represents the combined spectral contributions of a mixture of similar but not identical constituents (i.e., lipid-like and protein-like components). Temporal analysis of individual component groups using two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2D-COS) and MCR provides much-streamlined results without interferences from the overlapped contributions. Grouping of data into separate components also allows for the effective comparison of the parallel processes of lipid oxidation and protein denaturation involving a number of constituents using the heterocomponent 2D-COS analysis. The complex interplays of lipid constituents and protein secondary structures during the tissue aging process are unambiguously highlighted. The possibility of extending this approach to a much more general form of applications using a moving window analysis is also discussed.
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- Isao Noda
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
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Câmara ABF, da Silva WJO, Neves ACDO, Moura HOMA, de Lima KMG, de Carvalho LS. Excitation-emission fluorescence spectroscopy coupled with PARAFAC and MCR-ALS with area correlation for investigation of jet fuel contamination. Talanta 2024; 266:125126. [PMID: 37651908 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2023.125126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2023] [Revised: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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The contamination of jet fuel has gained attention in the past years as a notable factor in aircraft accidents. Identifying the contamination sources is still a challenge, especially when they have a similar composition to the fuel, such as kerosene solvent (KS). A novel analytical methodology was developed by combining a set of excitation-emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence to area constrained multivariate curve resolution with alternating least-squares (MCR-ALS) and PARAllel FACtor (PARAFAC) analysis, in order to identify KS in blends with JET-A1. For this purpose, a dataset with 50 samples (KS and JET-A1 blends, 2.0-100% v/v) was used to build the multivariate models. Both PARAFAC and MCR-ALS allowed fuel quantification with 4.64% and 3.46% RMSEP, respectively; both models (PARAFAC and MCR-ALS) could quantify KS with high accuracy (RMSEP <5.36%). In addition, MCR-ALS model was able to recover the pure spectral profiles of KS, JET-A1 and interferers. GC-MS data of the samples proved the composition similarities between both petroleum distillates, thus being inefficient for identifying the contamination. These results indicate that the development of multivariate models using EEM was the key for contributing with a new low-cost and accurate method for on-line screening of jet fuel contamination.
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- Anne B F Câmara
- Institute of Chemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Energetic Technologies Research Group, 59078-900, Natal, Brazil.
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- Quality Control Laboratory for Oil and Derivatives, Ativo Industrial de Guamaré (ATI), Petrobras, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Energetic Technologies Research Group, 59078-900, Natal, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Energetic Technologies Research Group, 59078-900, Natal, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Energetic Technologies Research Group, 59078-900, Natal, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Energetic Technologies Research Group, 59078-900, Natal, Brazil.
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Alaoui Mansouri M, Kharbach M, El Maouardi M, Barra I, Bouklouze A. Quantification of ciprofloxacin in pharmaceutical products from various brands using FT-NIR: A comparative investigation of PLS and MCR-ALS. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2023; 303:123268. [PMID: 37597354 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2023.123268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2023] [Revised: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 08/21/2023]
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This study aims to quantify ciprofloxacin in commercial tablets with varying excipient compositions using Fourier Transform Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-NIR) and chemometric models: Partial Least Squares (PLS) and Multivariate Curve Resolution - Alternating Least Squares (MCR-ALS). Matrix variation, arising from differences in excipient compositions among the tablets, can impact quantification accuracy. We discuss this phenomenon, emphasizing potential issues introduced by varying certain excipients and its importance in reliable ciprofloxacin quantification. We evaluated the performance of PLS and MCR-ALS models independently on two sets of tablets, each containing the same drug substance but different excipients. The statistical results revealed promising results with PLS prediction error of 0.38% w/w of the first set and 0.47% w/w of the second set, while MCR-ALS achieved prediction errors of 0.67% w/w of the first set and 1.76% w/w of the second set. To address the challenge of matrix variation, we developed single models for PLS and MCR-ALS using a dataset combining both first and second sets. The PLS single model demonstrated a prediction error of 4.3% w/w and a relative error of 6.41% w/w, while the MCR-ALS single model showed a prediction error of 1.88% w/w and a relative error of 1.29% w/w. We then assessed the performance of the single PLS and MCR-ALS models developed based on the combination of the first and the second set in quantifying ciprofloxacin in various commercial tablet brands containing new excipients. The PLS model achieved a prediction error ranging between 6.2% w/w and 8.39% w/w, with relative errors varied between 8.53% w/w and 12.82% w/w. On the other hand, the MCR-ALS model had a prediction error between 1.11% w/w and 2.66% w/w, and the relative errors ranging from 0.8% to 1.74% w/w.
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- M Alaoui Mansouri
- Nano and Molecular Systems Research Unit, University of Oulu, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland; Bio-Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Analysis Research Team, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco; University of Liege (ULiege), CIRM, Vibra-Santé HUB, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry, CHU, B36, B-4000, Liege, Belgium.
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- Bio-Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Analysis Research Team, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco; Research Unit of Mathematical Sciences, University of Oulu, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland.
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- Bio-Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Analysis Research Team, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
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- Bio-Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Analysis Research Team, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco; Center of Excellence in Soil and Fertilizer Research in Africa, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Benguerir, Morocco
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- Bio-Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Analysis Research Team, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
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Ezenarro J, García-Pizarro Á, Busto O, de Juan A, Boqué R. Analysing olive ripening with digital image RGB histograms. Anal Chim Acta 2023; 1280:341884. [PMID: 37858563 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2023.341884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
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Digital images are commonly used to monitor processes that are based on colour changes due to their simplicity and easy capture. Colour information in these images can be analysed objectively and accurately using colour histograms. One such process is olive ripening, which is characterized by changes in chemical composition, sensory properties and can be followed by changes in physical appearance, mainly colour. The reference method to quantify the ripeness of olives is the Maturity Index (MI), which is determined by trained experts assigning individual olives into a colour scale through visual inspection. Instead, this study proposes a methodology based on Chemometrics Assisted Colour Histogram-based Analytical Systems (CACHAS) to automatically assess the MI of olives based on R, G, and B colour histograms derived from digital images. The methodology was shown to be easily transferable for routine analysis and capable of controlling the ripening of olives. The study also confirms the high potential of digital images to understand the ripening process of olives (and potentially other fruits) and to predict the MI with satisfactory accuracy, providing an objective and reproducible alternative to visual inspection of trained experts.
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- Jokin Ezenarro
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Chemometrics and Sensorics for Analytical Solutions (CHEMOSENS) group, Department of Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, Campus Sescelades, Edifici N4, C/Marcel⋅lí Domingo 1, Tarragona, 43007, Spain
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- Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Chemometrics and Sensorics for Analytical Solutions (CHEMOSENS) group, Department of Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, Campus Sescelades, Edifici N4, C/Marcel⋅lí Domingo 1, Tarragona, 43007, Spain; Fruit Production Program, IRTA Mas Bové, Ctra. Reus-El Morell Km 3.8, Constantí, 43120, Spain
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- Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Chemometrics and Sensorics for Analytical Solutions (CHEMOSENS) group, Department of Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, Campus Sescelades, Edifici N4, C/Marcel⋅lí Domingo 1, Tarragona, 43007, Spain
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- Universitat de Barcelona. Chemometrics Group, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, Martí i Franqués 1, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Chemometrics and Sensorics for Analytical Solutions (CHEMOSENS) group, Department of Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, Campus Sescelades, Edifici N4, C/Marcel⋅lí Domingo 1, Tarragona, 43007, Spain.
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da Silveira Estevão PL, Lemes LFR, Soares FLF, Nagata N. Raman mapping for determination of TiO 2 in different solid food samples by multivariate curve resolution with alternating least squares. Anal Bioanal Chem 2023:10.1007/s00216-023-04839-9. [PMID: 37438565 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-023-04839-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Revised: 06/28/2023] [Accepted: 06/30/2023] [Indexed: 07/14/2023]
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Titanium dioxide is a food additive commonly used as a white food coloring (E171). Its wide use by the food industry associated with the nanometric size distribution of the particles of this pigment has shown high genotoxicity associated with recurrent exposure by ingestion. Therefore, the use of E171 in food products has already been banned by some industries and in the European Union. Such banishment should soon be extended to other countries around the world, making it important to establish techniques for the efficient determination of TiO2 in different food products. The association between hyperspectral images and chemometric tools can be useful in this sense, aiming to enable the use of a single method for sample preparation and analysis of different types of food. Thus, the present work aims to evaluate the use of Raman mapping associated with the resolution of multivariate curves with alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) for the determination of titanium dioxide in solid food samples with different compositions, without the need to introduce specific sample preparation. The proposed method allowed for the first-time quantification of TiO2 in different food matrices without specific sample preparation, with a simple, rapid, accurate (93% of recovery), low detection limits (0.0111% m/m) and quantification (0.0370% m/m) and adequate linearity (r = 0.9990) and precise (standard deviation around 0.020-0.030% w/w) methodology. Such results highlight the potential use of Raman mapping associated with the MCR-ALS for quantification of the nano-TiO2 in commercial samples.
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- Chemistry Department, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Parana State, Brazil
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Ma Y, Ye S, Zhao D, Liu X, Cao L, Zhou H, Zuo G, Shi C. Using different matrix factorization approaches to identify muscle synergy in stroke survivors. Med Eng Phys 2023; 117:103993. [PMID: 37331748 DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2023.103993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/20/2023]
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Over the past several decades, many scholars have investigated muscle synergy as a promising tool for evaluating motor function. However, it is challenging to obtain favorable robustness using the general muscle synergy identification algorithms, namely non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), independent component analysis (ICA), and factor analysis (FA). Some scholars have proposed improved muscle synergy identification algorithms to overcome the shortcomings of these approaches, such as singular value decomposition NMF (SVD-NMF), sparse NMF (S-NMF), and multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares (MCR-ALS). However, performance comparisons of these algorithms are seldom conducted. In this study, experimental electromyography (EMG) data collected from healthy individuals and stroke survivors were applied to assess the repeatability and intra-subject consistency of NMF, SVD-NMF, S-NMF, ICA, FA, and MCR-ALS. MCR-ALS presented higher repeatability and intra-subject consistencies than the other algorithms. More synergies and lower intra-subject consistencies were observed in stroke survivors than in healthy individuals. Thus, MCR-ALS is considered a favorable muscle synergy identification algorithm for patients with neural system disorders.
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- Yehao Ma
- Robotics Institute, Ningbo University of Technology, Ningbo 315211, China
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo,315201, China; Ningbo Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo 315300, China
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo,315201, China; Ningbo Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo 315300, China
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- Ningbo Rehabilitation Hospital, Ningbo, China
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo,315201, China; Ningbo Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo 315300, China
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo,315201, China; Ningbo Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo 315300, China
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo,315201, China; Ningbo Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo 315300, China.
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Martin M, Wongwattanakul M, Khemtonglang N, Kiatchoosakun P, Heraud P, Jearanaikoon P, Wood BR. Identification of Glucose-6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficient Patients Using Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Using Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis in Aqueous Blood Samples. Appl Spectrosc 2023; 77:513-520. [PMID: 37203321 DOI: 10.1177/00037028231170851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Glucose-6 phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is an X-linked blood disease that affects 400 million people globally and is especially prevalent in malaria-endemic regions. A significant portion of carriers are asymptomatic and undiagnosed posing complications in the eradication of malaria as it restricts the types of drugs used for malaria treatment. A simple and accurate diagnosis of the deficiency is vital in the eradication of malaria. In this study, we investigate the potential of attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR FT-IR) as a diagnostic technique for G6PD deficiency. Venous blood samples were collected in lithium heparin anticoagulant tubes from G6PD partial and fully deficient volunteers, n = 17, and normal volunteers, n = 59, in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Spectra of aqueous and dry samples were acquired of whole blood, plasma, and red blood cells, and modeled using partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). PLS-DA modeling resulted in a sensitivity of 0.800 and specificity of 0.800 correctly classifying fully deficient participants as well as a majority of partially deficient females who are often misdiagnosed as normal by current screening methods. The viability of utilizing aqueous samples has always been hindered by the variability of hydration in the sample, but by employing multicurve curve resolution-alternating least squares to subtract water from each sample we are able to produce high-quality spectra with minimized water contributions. The approach shows proof of principle that ATR FT-IR combined with multivariate data analysis could become a frontline screening tool for G6PD deficiency by improving tailored drug treatments and ultimately saving lives.
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- Miguela Martin
- Centre for Biospectroscopy, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Muang Khon Kaen, Thailand
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- Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Muang Khon Kaen, Thailand
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Muang Khon Kaen, Thailand
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Biospectroscopy, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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Perumal AB, Nambiar RB, Luo X, Su Z, Li X, He Y. Exploring dynamic changes of fungal cellular components during nanoemulsion treatment by multivariate microRaman imaging. Talanta 2023; 261:124666. [PMID: 37210918 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2023.124666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Recently, essential oils (EO) have gained a lot of interest for use as antifungal agent in food and agricultural industry and extensive research is ongoing to understand their mode of action. However, the exact mechanism is not yet elucidated. Here, we integrated spectral unmixing and Raman microspectroscopy imaging to unveil the antifungal mechanism of green tea EO based nanoemulsion (NE) against Magnaporthe oryzae. The dramatic change in protein, lipid, adenine, and guanine bands indicate that NE has a significant impact on the protein, lipid and metabolic processes of purine. The results also demonstrated that the NE treatment caused damage to fungal hyphae by inducing a physical injury leading to cell wall damage and loss of integrity. Our study shows that MCR-ALS (Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares) and N-FINDR (N-finder algorithm) Raman imaging could serve as a suitable complementary package to the traditional methods, for revealing the antifungal mechanism of action of EO/NE.
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- Anand Babu Perumal
- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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- College of Animal Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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Marchetti M, Mechling JM, Janvier-Badosa S, Offroy M. Benefits of Chemometric and Raman Spectroscopy Applied to the Kinetics of Setting and Early Age Hydration of Cement Paste. Appl Spectrosc 2023; 77:37-52. [PMID: 36220774 DOI: 10.1177/00037028221135065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The addition of water is used to past by internal post-curing of hardening cement. Hydration and curing of cementitious are widely identified by non-destructive 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements of transverse relaxation time and self-diffusion. However, those non-destructive analytical methodologies do not give a truly chemical characterization of the cement matrix during the hydration and curing process. Indeed, the NMR studies only the water dynamics of hydrating cement with internal post-curing. Recent research indicated chemometrics coupled with Raman spectroscopy allows for a better understanding of chemical processes. Recent advances in computing gave industries and research centers the opportunity to generate cost effective data. In this work, an original method is presented, which uses both a data analysis and a non-invasive, non-destructive Raman monitoring of the hydration reaction of a Portland cement. Data was then analyzed by means of chemometrics methods (principal components analysis (PCA), independent components analysis (ICA), and multivariate curve resolution-alternated least-squares (MCR-ALS) with SIMPLe-to-use Interactive Self-modelling Mixture Analysi (SIMPLISMA) and Orthogonal Projection Approach (OP initialization). Results were compared to the ones obtained with thermogravimetric analysis of this cement paste. Besides the consistency of results from both analytical measurements, chemometrics coupled to Raman spectroscopy accurately revealed the details of the setting without any samples collection. The acquisition frequency allowed a proper identification of the occurrence of each of the various phases involved in the hydration and setting process.
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- Mario Marchetti
- MAST, Université Gustave Eiffel, MAST, UMR MCD, Marne la Vallée, France
- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, IJL, Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LIEC, Nancy, France
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Rodionova OY, Pomerantsev AL, Rutledge DN. Kinetic Model of Diclofenac Degradation Developed Using Multivariate Curve Resolution Method. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27227904. [PMID: 36432005 PMCID: PMC9699027 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27227904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2022] [Revised: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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This study presents the kinetic modeling of the natural long-term aging of the pharmaceutical substance as well as the intact tablets of Diclofenac. Datasets are collections of near-infrared spectra acquired from the intact tablets packed in plastic blisters and the spectra of the pure substance. Fresh samples and samples at different stages of degradation are analyzed. No methods of accelerated aging were applied. Multi-step application of MCR-ALS in its soft version followed by the kinetic modeling of the results helps to propose a generic degradation mechanism; which includes: a global kinetic model; approximations of the NIR spectra of the intermediate and product; rough estimates of rate constants. We study tablets in blister packs; exactly as they are presented in pharmacies; and this is important from a practical point of view.
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- Oxana Ye. Rodionova
- Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics RAS, Kosygin 4, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics RAS, Kosygin 4, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris-Saclay, 17 Avenue des Sciences, 91400 Orsay, France
- Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 63 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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Câmara ABF, da Silva WJO, Moura HOMA, Silva NKN, de Lima KMG, de Carvalho LS. Multivariate strategy for identifying and quantifying jet fuel contaminants by MCR-ALS/PLS models coupled to combined MIR/NIR spectra. Anal Bioanal Chem 2022; 414:7897-7909. [PMID: 36149475 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-022-04324-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2022] [Revised: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The investigation and control of jet fuel contamination for private aircrafts has gained attention due to the softer monitoring in comparison to commercial aviation. The possible contamination with kerosene solvent (KS) makes this investigation more challenging, since it has physicochemical similarities with jet fuel. To help solve this problem, a chemometric methodology was applied in this research combining multivariate curve resolution with alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) and partial least squares (PLS) models coupled to near- and mid-infrared spectroscopies (MIR/NIR) in order to detect and quantify KS in blends with JET-A1 using 23 samples (5-60% v/v). Additionally, 98 samples were stored for 60 days, and principal component analysis, genetic algorithm, and successive projections algorithm were coupled to linear discriminant analysis (PCA-LDA, GA-LDA, and SPA-LDA) in order to classify the blends according to the bands assigned to oxidation products, such as phenols and carboxylic acids. GA-LDA and SPA-LDA models were accurate and reached 100% sensitivity and specificity. Physicochemical analysis was not able to detect the presence of KS in contaminated jet fuel samples, even in high concentrations. The use of MIR-NIR combined spectra improved the quantification results, thus decreasing the experimental error from 5.22% (using only NIR) to 1.64%. PLS regression quantified the content of KS with high accuracy (RMSEP < 1.64%, R2 > 0.995). The MCR-ALS model stood out for recovering the spectral profile of kerosene solvent by segregating it from jet fuel spectra. The development of models using chemometric tools contributed to a fast, low-cost, and efficient process for quality control that can be applied in the fuel industry.
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- Anne B F Câmara
- Institute of Chemistry, Energetic Technologies Research Group (GPTEN), Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Natal, 59078-900, Brazil.
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- Institute of Chemistry, Energetic Technologies Research Group (GPTEN), Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Natal, 59078-900, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, Energetic Technologies Research Group (GPTEN), Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Natal, 59078-900, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, Energetic Technologies Research Group (GPTEN), Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Natal, 59078-900, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, Energetic Technologies Research Group (GPTEN), Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Natal, 59078-900, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, Energetic Technologies Research Group (GPTEN), Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Natal, 59078-900, Brazil.
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Pérez-Cova M, Platikanov S, Tauler R, Jaumot J. Quantification strategies for two-dimensional liquid chromatography datasets using regions of interest and multivariate curve resolution approaches. Talanta 2022; 247:123586. [PMID: 35671578 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Revised: 05/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this work, three chemometrics-based approaches are compared for quantification purposes when using two-dimensional liquid chromatography (LC×LC-MS), taking as a study case the quantification of amino acids in commercial drug mixtures. Although the approaches have been already used for one-dimensional gas or liquid chromatography, the main novelty of this work is the demonstration of their applicability to LC×LC-MS datasets. Besides, steps such as peak alignment and modelling, commonly applied in this type of data analysis, are not required with the approaches proposed here. In a first step, regions of interest (ROI) strategy is used for the spectral compression of the LC×LC-MS datasets. Then the first strategy consists of building a calibration curve from the areas obtained in this ROI compression step. Alternatively, the ROI intensity matrices can be used as input for a second analysis step employing the multivariate curve resolution alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) method. The main benefit of MCR-ALS is the resolution of elution and spectral profiles for each of the analytes in the mixture, even in the case of strong coelutions and high signal overlapping. Classical MCR-ALS based calibration curve from the peak areas resolved only applying non-negativity constraints (second strategy) is compared to the results obtained when an area correlation constraint is imposed during the ALS optimization (third strategy). All in all, similar quantification results were achieved by the three approaches but, especially in prediction studies, the more accurate quantification is obtained when the calibration curve is built from the peak areas obtained with MCR-ALS when the area correlation constraint is imposed.
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- Miriam Pérez-Cova
- Department of Environmental Chemistry, IDAEA-CSIC, Jordi Girona 18-26, E08034 Barcelona, Spain; Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Diagonal 647, E08028, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Department of Environmental Chemistry, IDAEA-CSIC, Jordi Girona 18-26, E08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Chemistry, IDAEA-CSIC, Jordi Girona 18-26, E08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Chemistry, IDAEA-CSIC, Jordi Girona 18-26, E08034 Barcelona, Spain
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Vecchietti D, Nishio A, Fujita Y, Yoshida T, Yanagisawa T, Kou D. Liquid chromatography coupled with photodiode array and a multivariate curve resolution - Alternating least square algorithm for identification and quantification of co-eluting impurities in pharmaceutical analysis. J Chromatogr A 2022; 1678:463364. [PMID: 35914409 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2022.463364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Revised: 07/17/2022] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This paper systematically investigated and reported for the first time the identification and quantification of co-eluting impurities as low as 0.05 area% by PDA with i-PDeA II deconvolution software in the LabSolutions Chromatographic Data System (CDS) using an integrated multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) algorithm with a bidirectional exponentially modified Gaussian (BEMG) model function. The algorithm was able to consistently identify 0.05% impurities when co-eluting with the main component (Rs ≥ 0.8) as well as when co-eluting with another impurity (Rs ≥ 0.5). In the case of two co-eluting impurities from 0.05% to 1% (Rs ≥ 0.5), the quantification error ranged from +10.6% to -16.7%. In the case of an impurity co-eluting with the main component (Rs ≥ 0.8), the quantification error was 4.4-8.9% for 1% impurity and 109-184% for 0.05% impurity. The precision was excellent for the range of 0.05-1.0% impurities with the RSD being 1.4-3.0% for 1% impurity and 4.0-8.7% for 0.05% impurity. The identification rate and quantitation accuracy were not affected by the spectral similarity of the molecules, as comparable results were obtained by analyzing two molecules with low similarity (4,4-difluorobenzophenone and valerophenone) and two molecules with high similarity (diazepam and oxazepam) based on simulated data. This peak resolution by MCR-ALS approach provides fast and robust identification and quantification of co-eluting impurities even when method development efforts do not provide complete separation of the target peaks, and could therefore find a wide range of applications in pharmaceutical and other types of analyses.
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Mazivila SJ, Soares JX, Santos JLM. A tutorial on multi-way data processing of excitation-emission fluorescence matrices acquired from semiconductor quantum dots sensing platforms. Anal Chim Acta 2022; 1211:339216. [PMID: 35589220 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2021.339216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2021] [Revised: 10/14/2021] [Accepted: 10/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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This tutorial demonstrates how to exploit the second-order advantage on excitation-emission fluorescence matrices (EEFMs) acquired from sensing platforms based on analyte-triggered semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) fluorescence modulation (quenching/enhancing). The advantage in processing such second-order EEFMs data from complex samples, seeking successful quantification, is comprehensively addressed. It is worth emphasizing that, aiming to exploit the second-order advantage, the selection of the most appropriate advanced chemometric model should rely on the matching between the data structure and the physicochemical chemometric model assumption. In this sense, the achievement of second-order advantage after EEFMs' processing is extensively addressed throughout this tutorial taking into consideration three different analytical situations, each involving a specific data structure: i) parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC), which is applied in a real dataset stacked in a three-way data array containing a trilinear data structure acquired from QDs-based detection with non-selective species; ii) multivariate curve resolution - alternating least-squares (MCR-ALS), which is also employed in a real dataset arranged in an augmented data matrix containing non-trilinear data structure acquired from QDs-based detection with a single breaking mode caused by background signals; iii) unfolded partial least-squares with residual bilinearization (U-PLS/RBL), which is applied in a dataset containing non-trilinear data acquired from a classical fluorescence system with two breaking modes caused by inner filter effect (IFE) in both instrumental modes (excitation and emission). The latter challenging data structure can be acquired via fluorescence quenching from IFE-based sensing platforms and chemometrically handled in two main steps. First, a set of calibration EEFMs data is converted into an unfolded data matrix during the unfolding process, followed by applying U-PLS model. Second, a post-calibration procedure using RBL analysis is applied to a test sample of EEFM maintained in its matrix form, in order to handle potential interferents. In the last section, the state-of-the-art of second-order EEFMs data acquired from semiconductor QDs-based sensing platforms and coupled to multi-way fluorescence data processing to accomplish a successful quantification, even with substantial interfering species, is critically reviewed.
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- Sarmento J Mazivila
- The Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry (LAQV) of the Network of Chemistry and Technology (REQUIMTE) - the Portuguese Research Centre for Sustainable Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, 4050-313, Porto, Portugal.
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- The Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry (LAQV) of the Network of Chemistry and Technology (REQUIMTE) - the Portuguese Research Centre for Sustainable Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, 4050-313, Porto, Portugal
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- The Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry (LAQV) of the Network of Chemistry and Technology (REQUIMTE) - the Portuguese Research Centre for Sustainable Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, 4050-313, Porto, Portugal.
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Ghorbani J, Wentzell PD, Kompany-Zareh M, Omidikia N. Coupling of multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares and mechanistic hard models to investigate antibody purification from human plasma using ion exchange chromatography. J Chromatogr A 2022; 1675:463168. [PMID: 35667219 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2022.463168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2022] [Revised: 05/19/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A two steps proposal for the purification of immunoglobulin G from human blood plasma is investigated. The first step is precipitation using cold ethanol based on the Cohn method with some modification and the second step is a chromatographic separation by DEAE-Sepharose FF resin as a weak anion exchanger. The presence of interferent in the region3 of chromatographic fractions, which is co-eluted with IgG, restricts the application of the mechanistic chromatography model. Therefore, multivariate cure resolution-alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) as a soft method is employed on measured absorbance data matrix from eluted fractions to recover pure concentration and spectral profiles. Besides, possible solutions for resolved concentration and spectral profiles are investigated. The reaction-dispersive model as a mechanistic hard model for the column is utilized for the evaluation of the ion exchange chromatography. Using a genetic algorithm as a global optimization method, mobile phase modulator (MPM) adsorption model parameters such as β, kdes,0, and Keq,0, were fitted to the concentration profiles from MCR-ALS as 1.96, 2.87×10-4 m3 mol-1s-1, and 1883, respectively. Furthermore, a new resampling incorporated non-parametric statistics is conducted to assess parameters' uncertainty. Values of 2.00, 1.10×10-3 m3 mol-1s-1, and 549.80 are estimated median, and values of 0.05, 2.5×10-3, and 691.00 are calculated interquartile range (IQR) for β, kdes,0, and Keq,0, respectively. Finally, results show three and two outliers for β and kdes,0, respectively.
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Zhang X, Tauler R. Flexible Implementation of the Trilinearity Constraint in Multivariate Curve Resolution Alternating Least Squares ( MCR-ALS) of Chromatographic and Other Type of Data. Molecules 2022; 27:2338. [PMID: 35408738 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27072338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Revised: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 04/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Multivariate Curve Resolution Alternating Least Squares (MCR-ALS) can analyze three-way data under the assumption of a trilinear model using the trilinearity constraint. However, the rigid application of this constraint can produce unrealistic solutions in practice due to the inadequacy of the analyzed data to the characteristics and requirements of the trilinear model. Different methods for the relaxation of the trilinear model data requirements have been proposed, like in the PARAFAC2 and in the direct non-trilinear decomposition (DNTD) methods. In this work, the trilinearity constraint of MCR-ALS is adapted to different data scenarios where the profiles of all or some of the components of the system are shifted (not equally synchronized) or even change their shape among different slices in one of their data modes. This adaptation is especially useful in gas and liquid chromatography (GC and LC) and in Flow Injection Analysis (FIA) with multivariate spectroscopic detection. In a first data example, a synthetic LC-DAD dataset is built to investigate the possibilities of the proposed method to handle systematic changes (shifts) in the retention times of the elution profiles and the results are compared with those obtained using alternative methods like ATLD, PARAFAC, PARAFAC2 and DNTD. In a second data example, multiple wine samples were simultaneously analyzed by GC-MS where elution profiles presented large deviations (shifts) in their peak retention times, although they still preserve the same peak shape. Different modelling scenarios are tested and the results are also compared. Finally, in the third example, sample mixtures of acid compounds were analyzed by FIA under a pH gradient and monitored by UV spectroscopy and also examined by different chemometric methods using a different number of components. In this case, however, the departure of the trilinear model comes from the acid base speciation of the system depending on the pH more than from the shifting of the FIA diffusion profiles.
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da Silva Lima G, Franco Dos Santos G, Ramalho RRF, de Aguiar DVA, Roque JV, Maciel LIL, Simas RC, Pereira I, Vaz BG. Laser ablation electrospray ionization mass spectrometry imaging as a new tool for accessing patulin diffusion in mold-infected fruits. Food Chem 2022; 373:131490. [PMID: 34743054 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.131490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Revised: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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This work describes the use of laser ablation electrospray ionization mass spectrometry imaging (LAESI imaging) to investigate the diffusion of the mycotoxin patulin from rotten to healthy areas of fruits. Slices of mold-infected and uninfected (control) apples and strawberries were prepared, and this was the only sample preparation step used. An infrared laser beam (2.94 μm) was used to irradiate the slices, resulting in the ablation of sample compounds directly ionized by electrospray and analyzed by mass spectrometry. Multivariate curve resolution - alternating least squares was applied in unfolded LAESI images to obtain relative quantity information. Patulin was not detected in the control samples but was seen in all mold-infected fruits. LAESI images showed the diffusion of patulin from the rotten area to unaffected parts of the fruits. This study points out the advantage of LAESI imaging over traditional analytical methods used to study the diffusion of mycotoxins in fruits.
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- Chemistry Institute, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, GO 74690-900, Brazil.
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- Chemistry Institute, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, GO 74690-900, Brazil.
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Platikanov S, Terrado M, Pay MT, Soret A, Tauler R. Understanding temporal and spatial changes of O 3 or NO 2 concentrations combining multivariate data analysis methods and air quality transport models. Sci Total Environ 2022; 806:150923. [PMID: 34653450 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Revised: 10/07/2021] [Accepted: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The application of the multivariate curve resolution method to the analysis of temporal and spatial data variability of hourly measured O3 and NO2 concentrations at nineteen air quality monitoring stations across Catalonia, Spain, during 2015 is shown. Data analyzed included ground-based experimental measurements and predicted concentrations by the CALIOPE air quality modelling system at three horizontal resolutions (Europe at 12 × 12 km2, Iberian Peninsula at 4 × 4 km2 and Catalonia at 1 × 1 km2). Results obtained in the analysis of these different data sets allowed a better understanding of O3 and NO2 concentration changes as a sum of a small number of different contributions related to daily sunlight radiation, seasonal dynamics, traffic emission patterns, and local station environments (urban, suburban and rural). The evaluation of O3 and NO2 concentrations predicted by the CALIOPE system revealed some differences among data sets at different spatial resolutions. NO2 predictions, showed in general a better performance than O3 predictions for the three model resolutions, specially at urban stations. Our results confirmed that the application of the trilinearity constraint during the multivariate curve resolution factor analysis decomposition of the analyzed data sets is a useful tool to facilitate the understanding of the resolved variability sources.
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- Stefan Platikanov
- Department of Environmental Chemistry, IDAEA-CSIC, Jordi Girona, 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Jordi Girona, 31, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, University of Barcelona, Faculty of Biology, Diagonal, 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Jordi Girona, 31, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Chemistry, IDAEA-CSIC, Jordi Girona, 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
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Dos Santos VJ, Baqueta MR, Março PH, Valderrama P, Visentainer JV. Proof-of-concept on the effect of human milk storage time: Lipid degradation and spectroscopic characterization using portable near-infrared spectrometer and chemometrics. Food Chem 2022; 368:130675. [PMID: 34419795 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.130675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2021] [Revised: 05/16/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Human milk (HM) modifications over time represent an important issue. This work proposed to evaluate the changes in HM during one-year storage through total lipids (TL) degradation and portable near-infrared (NIR) spectrometer combined with chemometrics. Colostrum, transition, and mature stages were obtained from donors and considered in the raw and pasteurized forms. Principal component analysis in TL content showed changes in the mature stages for both forms after 75 days. Multivariate curve resolution with alternating least squares in NIR spectral data reveals a decrease in protein and triacylglycerol contents while an increase in free fatty acids (palmitic acid) contents were observed through the storage after around 5-6 months. Therefore, more than 5-6 months of storage suggest possible biochemical changes in the HM nutritional composition. Moreover, the chemometrics investigation was crucial in extracting information, bringing coherent results, and helping to understand the chemical changes in human milk during storage.
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- Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), 87301-899 Campo Mourão-Paraná, Brazil
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- Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), 87301-899 Campo Mourão-Paraná, Brazil
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- Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), 87301-899 Campo Mourão-Paraná, Brazil.
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Farid JF, Mostafa NM, Fayez YM, Essam HM, ElTanany BM. Chemometric quality assessment of Paracetamol and Phenylephrine Hydrochloride with Paracetamol impurities; comparative UV-spectrophotometric implementation of four predictive models. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2022; 265:120308. [PMID: 34509889 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.120308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Revised: 08/16/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Spectrophotometric data analysis using multivariate approaches has many useful applications. One of these applications is the analysis of active ingredients in presence of impurities. Four chemometric-assisted spectrophotometric methods, namely, principal component regression (PCR), partial least-squares (PLS), artificial neural networks (ANN) and multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) were proposed and validated. The developed chemometric methods were compared to resolve the severely overlapped spectrum of Paracetamol (PAR) and Phenylephrine HCl (PHE) along with PAR impurities namely, P-Aminophenol (PAP), P-Nitrophenol (PNP), Acetanilide (ACT) and P-Chloroacetanilide (CAC). The four multivariate calibration methods succeeded in simultaneous determination of PAR and PHE with further quantification of PAR impurities. So, the proposed methods could be used with no need of any separation step and successfully applied for pharmaceutical formulation analysis. Furthermore, statistical comparison between the results obtained by the proposed chemometric methods and the official ones showed no significant differences.
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- Joliana F Farid
- Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr-El-Aini, 11562 Cairo, Egypt
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- Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr-El-Aini, 11562 Cairo, Egypt
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- Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr-El-Aini, 11562 Cairo, Egypt.
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- Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr-El-Aini, 11562 Cairo, Egypt
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- Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr-El-Aini, 11562 Cairo, Egypt
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Costa Pereira JLGFS, Pais AACC, Azevedo JCR, Knapik HG. Methods for unsupervised contribution analysis of raw EEM data in water monitoring. Contaminant identification and quantification. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2022; 264:120226. [PMID: 34388429 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.120226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Revised: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Fluorescence EEM spectra provide the "fingerprint" of water contamination and is a very efficient way to access the quality of water bodies. These multivariate datasets correspond to complex mixtures and are very rich in information. Graphical approaches have been used for decades to characterize and quantify different contamination sources. It is very important to resolve mixed signals in raw EEM spectra in terms of signal sources and respective composition profiles - signal sources allow the identification of contamination type, while concentration profiles quantify the respective contribution inside the mixtures. In order to be able to use robust modeling algorithms, the first task is to accurately estimate the number of contributions that are present. We demonstrate the ability of Singular value Decomposition (SVD) in accessing this information content in raw EEM datasets. To decompose raw EEM information, several algorithms are tested: PARAFAC, MCR-ALS and ICA. In this work we suggest a systematic unsupervised algorithm to process raw EEM spectra of water samples.
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- CQC, Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, Rua larga, Coimbra P-3004 535, Portugal
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- Department of Chemistry and Biology, Federal University of Technology - Parana, Rua Deputado Heitor de Alencar Furtado, 4900, 81280-340 Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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- Department of Hydraulic and Sanitation, Federal University of Parana, Centro Politecnico, Bl. 5, Av. Cel Francisco H. dos Santos, 81531-990 Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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Ochoa GS, Sudol PE, Trinklein TJ, Synovec RE. Class comparison enabled mass spectrum purification for comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography with time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Talanta 2022; 236:122844. [PMID: 34635234 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Tile-based Fisher ratio (F-ratio) analysis is emerging as a versatile data analysis tool for supervised discovery-based experimentation using comprehensive two-dimensional (2D) gas chromatography coupled with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC × GC-TOFMS). None the less, analyte identification can often be marred by poor 2D resolution and low analyte abundance relative to overlapping compounds. Linear algebra-based chemometric methods, in particular multivariate curve resolution alternating least squares (MCR-ALS), parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) and PARAFAC2, are often applied in an effort to address this situation. However, these chemometric methods can fail to produce an accurate spectrum when the analyte is at low 2D resolution and/or in low relative abundance. To address this challenge, we introduce class comparison enabled mass spectrum purification (CCE-MSP), a method that utilizes the underlying requirement for signal consistency of the background interference compounds between the two classes in the F-ratio analysis to purify the mass spectrum of the analyte hits. CCE-MSP is validated using a dataset obtained for a neat JP-8 jet fuel spiked with 14 sulfur containing compounds at two levels (15 ppm and 30 ppm), using the p-value and lack-of-fit (LOF) for each analyte hit as consistency metrics. A purified mass spectrum was produced for each spiked analyte hit and their mass spectrum match value (MV) was compared to the MV obtained by MCR-ALS, PARAFAC, and PARAFAC2. The resulting MV for CCE-MSP were found to be as good or better than these chemometric methods, eg., for 2-butyl-5-ethylthiophene with an analyte-to-interference relative signal abundance of 1:87 and a 2D resolution of 0.2, CCE-MSP produced a MV of 831, compared to 476 for MCR-ALS, 403 for PARAFAC, and 336 for PARAFAC2. CCE-MSP is also extended to obtain the purified spectrum for more than one analyte, eg., two analyte hits in overlapping hit locations. The spectra produced by CCE-MSP can also be utilized as estimates to facilitate quantitative signal decomposition using MCR-ALS.
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- Grant S Ochoa
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
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Cela R, Triñanes S, Cobas C. A new strategy for the computer-assisted development of reversed-phase liquid chromatography separation methods of unknown sample mixtures. Anal Bioanal Chem 2021. [PMID: 34406462 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-021-03538-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2021] [Revised: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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A new strategy for the computer-assisted methods development in the reversed-phase liquid chromatographic separations of unknown sample mixtures has been developed using the latent spectral information in chromatogram raw data files of appropriately designed experiments, rather than resorting to elemental information functions (e.g., the number of peaks in chromatograms or similar criteria). The strategy developed allows unification of the approach for samples of both known and unknown composition and, thus, provide a general strategy for computer-aided tools in the chromatography laboratory. The operation principle of this strategy departs from extracting the spectra of components in the mixture chromatograms by resorting to multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares (MCR-ALS). This technique allows the estimation of the true spectra for the individual components except when they have identical spectra or are fully overlapped. Thus, a convenient experimental design will try to perform separations of the sample mixture having at least partial resolution of components in some runs. This will allow estimating the spectra of components and, then, assign these components to the peaks in each run chromatogram. In this way, a retention model can be built for each component so computerized optimization process can be developed to provide the chromatographer with the best possible separation programs. Following this approach, strategies for sample mixtures of known and unknown composition are only different in the need of an initial spectrum discovery process for unknown mixtures and therefore a real general approach for the computer-assisted LC methods development is now available for the first time.
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Gupta S, Román-Ospino AD, Baranwal Y, Hausner D, Ramachandran R, Muzzio FJ. Performance assessment of linear iterative optimization technology (IOT) for Raman chemical mapping of pharmaceutical tablets. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2021; 205:114305. [PMID: 34385017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2021.114305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Revised: 07/26/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Raman chemical mapping is an inherently slow analysis tool. Accurate and robust multivariate analysis algorithms, which require least amount of time and effort in method development are desirable. Calibration-free regression and resolution approaches such as classical least squares (CLS) and multivariate curve resolution using alternating least squares (MCR-ALS), respectively, help in reducing the resources required for method development. However, conventional CLS does not consider appropriate constraints, which may result in negative and/or greater than 100 % Raman concentration scores, while MCR-ALS may not always be as accurate as regression-based algorithms. Linear iterative optimization technology (IOT) is another calibration-free algorithm, which with appropriate constraints has previously shown promise in online and offline pharmaceutical mixture composition determination. This paper aims to evaluate the performance of the linear IOT algorithm for Raman chemical mapping of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), diluent, and lubricant in pharmaceutical tablets. Two pre-processing strategies were applied to the raw Raman mapping spectra. The results were compared with CLS (current reference method) and MCR-ALS. Special emphasis was given to mapping at low Raman exposure times to enable feasible total acquisition times (< 5 h). The quality of IOT/CLS/MCR-ALS estimated Raman concentration predictions were assessed by calculating a correlation factor between the spectrum corresponding to the maximum predicted concentration (or resolved spectra) of a component for IOT/CLS (or MCR-ALS) and the pure powder component spectrum. The Raman chemical maps were visualized, and the average Raman concentrations scores were compared. The results demonstrated the utility of IOT in Raman chemical mapping of pharmaceutical tablets. The diluent (lactose) and API (semi-fine APAP) used in this study were reliably estimated by IOT at relatively short Raman exposure times. On the other hand, as expected, the lubricant (magnesium stearate) could not be detected in any of the cases investigated here, irrespective of the algorithm used. Overall, for the API and diluent used in this formulation as well as the chemical mapping conditions, linear IOT seemed to better estimate the pure spectrum intensities and the average Raman scores (closer to CLS) in comparison to MCR-ALS. Moreover, application of appropriate constraints in linear IOT avoided the presence of negative and/or greater than 100 % Raman concentration scores, as observed in CLS-based Raman chemical maps.
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- Shashwat Gupta
- Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
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- Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
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- Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
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- Thermofisher Scientific, 168 3rd Ave, Waltham, MA, 02451, USA
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- Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
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- Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA.
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Dourado CS, Domingues IFF, de Oliveira Magalhães L, Casarin F, Ribeiro ML, Braga JWB, Dias ACB. Optimization of a saccharin molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction procedure and evaluation by MIR hyperspectral imaging for analysis of diet tea by HPLC. Food Chem 2021; 367:130732. [PMID: 34384980 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.130732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2021] [Revised: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Saccharin was determined based on a new molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction (MISPE) procedure. The polymer was synthesized with a hybrid monomer of metacrylic acid and 3-amino propril tetraethoxysilane and saccharin as template. After the synthesis, the saccharin removal from the MIP was verified by the UV analysis of the solutions used in the template removal procedure, as well as by the direct MIP analysis using FTIR hyperspectral image and chemometrics. The residual saccharin concentrations observed in the image analysis revealed a narrow concentration distribution consistent with a homogenous material. The MISPE was performed with homemade cartridges containing 200 mg of the MIP. The results obtained with standards and diet tea samples confirmed high affinity, adsorption capacity and selectivity of the MIP. The MISPE cartridge exhibited recoveries of 100 ± 3% in six extraction cycles. The diet tea analysis showed a significant reduction of the interferences, which can considerable simplifies the HPLC-UV analysis.
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- Camila Santos Dourado
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Brasilia - UnB, Brasilia, DF 70910-900, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Brasilia - UnB, Brasilia, DF 70910-900, Brazil
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Brasilia - UnB, Brasilia, DF 70910-900, Brazil
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Ma Y, Shi C, Xu J, Ye S, Zhou H, Zuo G. A Novel Muscle Synergy Extraction Method Used for Motor Function Evaluation of Stroke Patients: A Pilot Study. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 21:3833. [PMID: 34205957 DOI: 10.3390/s21113833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2021] [Revised: 05/21/2021] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In this paper, we present a novel muscle synergy extraction method based on multivariate curve resolution–alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) to overcome the limitation of the nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) method for extracting non-sparse muscle synergy, and we study its potential application for evaluating motor function of stroke survivors. Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is the most widely used method for muscle synergy extraction. However, NMF is susceptible to components’ sparseness and usually provides inferior reliability, which significantly limits the promotion of muscle synergy. In this study, MCR-ALS was employed to extract muscle synergy from electromyography (EMG) data. Its performance was compared with two other matrix factorization algorithms, NMF and self-modeling mixture analysis (SMMA). Simulated data sets were utilized to explore the influences of the sparseness and noise on the extracted synergies. As a result, the synergies estimated by MCR-ALS were the most similar to true synergies as compared with SMMA and NMF. MCR-ALS was used to analyze the muscle synergy characteristics of upper limb movements performed by healthy (n = 11) and stroke (n = 5) subjects. The repeatability and intra-subject consistency were used to evaluate the performance of MCR-ALS. As a result, MCR-ALS provided much higher repeatability and intra-subject consistency as compared with NMF, which were important for the reliability of the motor function evaluation. The stroke subjects had lower intra-subject consistency and seemingly had more synergies as compared with the healthy subjects. Thus, MCR-ALS is a promising muscle synergy analysis method for motor function evaluation of stroke patients.
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Lenardon Vinciguerra L, Carla Böck F, Pires Schneider M, Alejandra Pisoni Canedo Reis N, Flores Silva L, Christina Mendes de Souza K, Crivellaro Guerra C, de Araújo Gomes A, Maria Bergold A, Flôres Ferrão M. Geographical origin authentication of southern Brazilian red wines by means of EEM-pH four-way data modelling coupled with one class classification approach. Food Chem 2021; 362:130087. [PMID: 34139571 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.130087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Revised: 04/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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EEM data recorded at different pH values was exploited by MCR-ALS in order to determine qualitative information about Brazilian red wines. In addition, the geographical traceability of wines produced in the Serra Gaúcha (Rio Grande do Sul) was carried out by DD-SIMCA considering 53 samples from the target class and 20 from other producing regions. The fluorescence signal corresponds to 9 EEMs recorded at different pH (3-11), generating four-way data. By MCR-ALS decomposition, eight factors were retrieved and related to typical chemical compounds found in red wine. In addition, the EEM pH data was used to build a one-class classification model, considering that MCR scores and all samples of the target class were properly recognised as belonging to the target class, with maximal sensitivity equal to 1. Samples of the non-target class were also adequately rejected by the model, and the specificity was found to be 0.97.
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Selimoğlu F, Ünal N, Ceren Ertekin Z, Dinç E. PARAFAC and MCR-ALS approaches to the pKa determination of benzoic acid and its derivatives. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2021; 248:119253. [PMID: 33302215 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.119253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2020] [Revised: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 11/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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In general, the identification of biological activities of a molecule requires the observation of its physicochemical characteristics with its molecular interactions in an organism. The acid-base ionization constant (or pKa) is one of the key parameters that shows the physicochemical behaviors of molecules used in pharmaceuticals, foods, cosmetics etc. Therefore, the development of new methods (or approaches) is necessary to get simple, rapid, inexpensive and reliable determination of the acidity constants of active and inactive ingredients used in commercial products. In this paper, new UV spectroscopic methods were developed for the first time, by applying parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) and multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) to the pH-UV spectral data arrays for determining the pKa values of benzoic acid and its five derivatives (4-fluorobenzoic acid, thiosalicylic acid, anthranilic acid, phthalic acid, 4-aminobenzoic acid). The pH profiles obtained by the PARAFAC and MCR-ALS decomposition of the pH-UV data arrays were used for the quantitative estimation of the acid-base ionization constants for the investigated compounds without classical titration procedure. We concluded that the proposed PARAFAC and MCR-ALS provided us an opportunity for simple and rapid pKa determination of relevant compounds, which have functional importance in pharmaceutical and food industries.
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- Faysal Selimoğlu
- Necmettin Erbakan University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biotechnology, 42090 Meram, Konya, Turkey
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- Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry, 06560 Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey
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- Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry, 06560 Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey
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- Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry, 06560 Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey.
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Mazivila SJ, Lombardi JM, Páscoa RNMJ, Bortolato SA, Leitão JMM, Esteves da Silva JCG. Three-way calibration using PARAFAC and MCR-ALS with previous synchronization of second-order chromatographic data through a new functional alignment of pure vectors for the quantification in the presence of retention time shifts in peak position and shape. Anal Chim Acta 2021; 1146:98-108. [PMID: 33461724 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2020.12.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2020] [Revised: 11/28/2020] [Accepted: 12/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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In the present contribution is shown the application of the recently developed functional alignment of pure vectors (FAPV) as a proper algorithm to align second-order chromatographic data with severe retention time shifts in peak position and shape. FAPV decomposed a three-way chromatographic data array in their three modes (sample, spectral and elution time vectors), using a basis function to pre-process the non-linear mode (elution time) and then it aligns the functionalized pure vectors and reshapes the transformed vectors into matrices, restoring the trilinearity of second-order chromatographic data. The well-aligned three-way chromatographic data array is then successfully decomposed by advanced chemometric models such as parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) and multivariate curve resolution - alternating least-squares (MCR-ALS) with the trilinearity constraint. The performance of this innovative analytical strategy based on PARAFAC and MCR-ALS with previous synchronization of data through FAPV algorithm is properly evaluated using real second-order chromatographic data with multiple artifacts, i.e., shifts in peak position and shape for the simultaneous quantification of amoxicillin and potassium clavulanate in commercial medicinal drugs. The present contribution compares some analytical results achieved by: (1) the usual MCR-ALS as a bilinear model applied in augmented data matrix without previous synchronization and with interval correlation optimized shifting (ICOSHIFT) and FAPV and (2) trilinear models using PARAFAC with ICOSHIFT and FAPV and trilinearity constraint in MCR-ALS with FAPV. Available results suggest that these strongly shifted and warped elution time profiles cause for the loss of trilinearity, which can be adequately restored by FAPV algorithm. PARAFAC performed a successful trilinear decomposition of three-way chromatographic data array with law values of relative prediction error (REP) in the order of 1.34-1.42% in both analytes.
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- Sarmento J Mazivila
- Research Centre in Chemistry (CIQ-UP), Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal.
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, National University of Rosario, Rosario Institute of Chemistry (IQUIR-CONICET), Suipacha 531, S2002LRK, Rosario, Argentina.
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- LAQV, REQUIMTE, Department of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, 4050-313, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, National University of Rosario, Rosario Institute of Chemistry (IQUIR-CONICET), Suipacha 531, S2002LRK, Rosario, Argentina
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- Research Centre in Chemistry (CIQ-UP), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, 3000-548, Coimbra, Portugal
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Liu Z, Huang X, Jiang Z, Tuo X. Investigation of the binding properties between levamlodipine and HSA based on MCR-ALS and computer modeling. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2021; 245:118929. [PMID: 32961448 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.118929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2020] [Revised: 08/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Levamlodipine (LEE) is a drug commonly used for antihypertensive treatment in clinical therapy. The overlapping fluorescence spectra of LEE and human serum albumin (HSA) cause some trouble in analysis of interactions between them by using the classic fluorescence method. Here, the multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) approach was used to overcome this disadvantage. Meanwhile, the binding properties of LEE-HSA complex were then explored through computer modeling. The MCR-ALS results suggested that LEE-HSA complex was present in the mixture solution of LEE and HSA. This conclusion was then confirmed by the Stern-Volmer equation and time-resolved fluorescence experiment. The binding constant (Ka) was 2.139 × 104 L·mol-1 at 298 K. LEE was located close to the Trp-214 residue of HSA, with van der Waals forces and hydrogen bonding as main driving forces for this interaction. LEE can alter the conformation of HSA, in which the content of α-helix reduced from 57.2% to 52.3%. The Pi-Alkyl interactions contributed to maintaining the stability of the LEE-HSA complex. The results of molecular dynamics simulations showed that LEE-HSA complex was formed within 5 ns, and the particle size (Rg) of HSA was altered by the binding reaction. This study would promote better understanding of the transportation and distribution mechanisms of LEE in the human body.
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- Zhaoqing Liu
- College of Chemistry, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, Jiangxi, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, Jiangxi, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, Jiangxi, China
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- College of Chemistry, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, Jiangxi, China.
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Iwasaki K, Araki A, Krishna CM, Maruyama R, Yamamoto T, Noothalapati H. Identification of Molecular Basis for Objective Discrimination of Breast Cancer Cells (MCF-7) from Normal Human Mammary Epithelial Cells by Raman Microspectroscopy and Multivariate Curve Resolution Analysis. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:E800. [PMID: 33466869 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22020800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Raman spectroscopy (RS), a non-invasive and label-free method, has been suggested to improve accuracy of cytological and even histopathological diagnosis. To our knowledge, this novel technique tends to be employed without concrete knowledge of molecular changes in cells. Therefore, identification of Raman spectral markers for objective diagnosis is necessary for universal adoption of RS. As a model study, we investigated human mammary epithelial cells (HMEpC) and breast cancer cells (MCF-7) by RS and employed various multivariate analyses (MA) including principal components analysis (PCA), linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and support vector machine (SVM) to estimate diagnostic accuracy. Furthermore, to elucidate the underlying molecular changes in cancer cells, we utilized multivariate curve resolution analysis–alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) with non-negative constraints to extract physically meaningful spectra from complex cellular data. Unsupervised PCA and supervised MA, such as LDA and SVM, classified HMEpC and MCF-7 fairly well with high accuracy but without revealing molecular basis. Employing MCR-ALS analysis we identified five pure biomolecular spectra comprising DNA, proteins and three independent unsaturated lipid components. Relative abundance of lipid 1 seems to be strictly regulated between the two groups of cells and could be the basis for excellent discrimination by chemometrics-assisted RS. It was unambiguously assigned to linoleate rich glyceride and therefore serves as a Raman spectral marker for reliable diagnosis. This study successfully identified Raman spectral markers and demonstrated the potential of RS to become an excellent cytodiagnostic tool that can both accurately and objectively discriminates breast cancer from normal cells.
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Ghorbani J, Kompany-Zareh M, Tahmasebi E. Antibodies purification from human plasma using fractionation, chromatography and gel electrophoresis assisted by multivariate analysis of complimentary absorption and fluorescence spectra. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2021; 1167:122526. [PMID: 33636588 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2021.122526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2020] [Revised: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/02/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Employing simple precipitation (fractionation) using Cohn method and weak anion exchange chromatography with DEAE resin, antibodies such as Immunoglobulin G are purified from human plasma. Fractions are eluted from column in four different regions depending on washing NaCl concentrations. Absorbance and excitation-emission fluorescence spectral data are measured for separated chromatographic fractions and analyzed using Multivariate Curve Resolution- Alternating Least Squares (MCR-ALS) and Parallel Factor Analysis (PARAFAC) techniques. Resolved concentration and spectral profiles provided information about existing components in each fraction. Protein and non-protein components are distinguished considering their resolved pure spectra and information from the two applied spectroscopic techniques is complementary. A number of components displayed both fluorescence and absorbance signals. When concentration of component (protein or non-protein) in sample is low and no significant absorbance signal is observed, sensitive fluorescence is useful to recognize the component and for non-fluorescent components absorbance spectra are utilized. Electrophoresis is utilized for separation of proteins in each fraction and showed that one distinguished protein from fluorescence and/or absorbance data can be a group of proteins with similar pure spectra and retention volume. Results showed presence of two protein in the first region (IgM and IgA), a group of proteins in second region (IgM, α-globulin, and IgG), a pure protein in third region (IgG), and a group of β-globulin proteins in fifth region. It is well and clearly shown that multivariate analysis of different data sets with complementary information is necessary for better interpretation of such technically simple and biochemically complicated systems.
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- Javad Ghorbani
- Chemistry Department, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran
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- Chemistry Department, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran; Trace Analysis Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
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- Chemistry Department, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran
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Mamián-López MB, Bernardi Miguel R, Araki K, A Temperini ML, da Costa Ferreira AM. Multivariate probing of antitumor metal-based complexes damage on living cells through Raman imaging. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2021; 244:118838. [PMID: 32862078 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.118838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Intracellular modifications caused by two metal-based antitumor compounds were assessed by confocal Raman imaging assisted by multivariate curve resolution method, a very powerful deconvolution tool that can be used to extract the characteristic spectral profile of the individual or "purest" components from an image dataset. The use of this Raman methodology has the advantage of being non-invasive and totally label-free. Four main different intracellular processes were observed under the Raman imaging and multivariate approach combination, and even, significant differences could be identified between the treatments with both metallodrugs. Leakage of the nucleus and nucleolus content into the cytoplasm, along with releasing of cytochrome c were observed for the treatment with the Cu-based complex. At the same time, changes of hydrogen-bonding network were also evidenced, indicating an apoptotic cellular death process, consistent with complementary Total Reflection X-Ray fluorescence (TXRF) and fluorescence experiments attesting mitochondria and DNA as main targets after uptake of the complex by cells. For treatment with the Zn-based complex, changes associated with cytochrome c were not detected, neither a rapid leakage of nucleus content upon 24 h treatment. The hydrogen-bonding network also followed a quite different pattern, suggesting that with this metallodrug, the cellular death follows a different mechanism.
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- Mónica Benicia Mamián-López
- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 748, 05508-000, SP, Brazil; Federal University of ABC, Av. dos Estados, 5001, 09210-580 Santo André, SP, Brazil.
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 748, 05508-000, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 748, 05508-000, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 748, 05508-000, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 748, 05508-000, SP, Brazil
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Palomino-Vasco M, Mora-Diez NM, Rodríguez-Cáceres MI, Acedo-Valenzuela MI, Alcaraz MR, Goicoechea HC. Exploring the potential of combining chemometric approaches to model non-linear multi-way data with quantitative purposes - A case study. Anal Chim Acta 2021; 1141:63-70. [PMID: 33248663 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2020.10.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Revised: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Second-order based calibration methods have been widely investigated capitalizing on the inherent benefits of the data structure and the decomposition models, demonstrating that second-order advantage is a property that conspires to a high likelihood success in the resolution of systems of varying complexity. This work aims to demonstrate the applicability of a combined chemometric strategy to solve non-linear multivariate calibration systems in the presence of non-multilinear multi-way data. The determination of histamine by differential pulse voltammetry at different pH is presented as case study. The experimental system has the outstanding difficulty arisen from the large displacement along the potential axis by the pH, which was successfully overcome by implementation of the presented combined strategy. For data modeling, MCR-ALS, U-PLS/RBL and U-PCA/RBL-RBF were used. MCR-ALS allowed unraveling the non-linear behavior between the signal and the concentration, and extracting the underlying profiles of the constituent. Quantitative analysis was performed through the three models, and a comparative evaluation of the predictive performance was done. The best results were achieved with U-PCA/RBL-RBF (mean recovery = 101%) whereas, MCR-ALS yield the lowest mean recovery for all samples (70%).
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- Mónica Palomino-Vasco
- Department of Analytical Chemistry and Research Institute on Water, Climate Change and Sustainability (IACYS), University of Extremadura, Badajoz, 06006, Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry and Research Institute on Water, Climate Change and Sustainability (IACYS), University of Extremadura, Badajoz, 06006, Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry and Research Institute on Water, Climate Change and Sustainability (IACYS), University of Extremadura, Badajoz, 06006, Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry and Research Institute on Water, Climate Change and Sustainability (IACYS), University of Extremadura, Badajoz, 06006, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Desarrollo Analítico y Quimiometría (LADAQ), Cátedra de Química Analítica I, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Santa Fe, S3000ZAA, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Godoy Cruz 2290, CABA, C1425FQB, Argentina.
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- Laboratorio de Desarrollo Analítico y Quimiometría (LADAQ), Cátedra de Química Analítica I, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Santa Fe, S3000ZAA, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Godoy Cruz 2290, CABA, C1425FQB, Argentina
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Peng TQ, Yin XL, Gu HW, Sun W, Ding B, Hu XC, Ma LA, Wei SD, Liu Z, Ye SY. HPLC-DAD fingerprints combined with chemometric techniques for the authentication of plucking seasons of Laoshan green tea. Food Chem 2020; 347:128959. [PMID: 33465688 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.128959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Laoshan green teas plucked in summer and autumn were measured by high performance liquid chromatography-diode array detector (HPLC-DAD). After baseline correction, the fingerprints data were resolved by multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) and a total of 57 components were acquired. Relative concentrations of these components were afterwards applied to distinguish plucking seasons using principal component analysis (PCA), support vector machines (SVM) and partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). For both SVM and PLS-DA models, the total recognition rates of training set, cross-validation and testing set were 100%, 91.3% and 100%, respectively. Besides, three variable selection methods were employed to determine characteristic components for the authentication of summer and autumn teas. Results showed that PLS-DA model based on three characteristic components selected by VIP possesses identical predictive ability as the original model. This study demonstrated that our proposed strategy is competent for the authentication of plucking seasons of Laoshan green tea.
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- Tian-Qin Peng
- College of Life Sciences, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434023, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China
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- College of Horticulture and Gardening, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China
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- College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology, Loudi 417000, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China
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Landrot G, Khaokaew S. Determining the fate of lead (Pb) and phosphorus (P) in alkaline Pb-polluted soils amended with P and acidified using multiple synchrotron-based techniques. J Hazard Mater 2020; 399:123037. [PMID: 32526425 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.123037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2020] [Revised: 05/11/2020] [Accepted: 05/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The effect of acidification on lead (Pb) and phosphorus (P) speciation in alkaline Pb-polluted soils that are amended with P to stabilize Pb is still unclear. It was studied in three alkaline Pb-polluted soils containing specific amounts of Soil Organic Matter (SOM), using multiple synchrotron-based techniques, i.e. bulk X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS) spectroscopy at Pb LIII- and P K-edges, micro-X-ray Fluorescence (μ-XRF), and micro-X-ray Diffraction (μ-XRD). These techniques provided unambiguous evidences that the formation of pyromorphite, i.e. the desired Pb stabilized chemical form, was severely limited in the acidified soil samples amended with fish bones or phosphoric acid (H3PO4). Most Pb present in the H3PO4-amended soil samples did not convert to pyromorphite due to Pb and P leaching and PbSO4(s) formation. In contrast, most Pb present in the fish bone-amended soil samples was unaffected by acidification and did not convert to pyromorphite as it was inaccessible to soil solution or retained by SOM, similarly to P. Additionally, Pb-SOM association increased with increasing SOM content. Results had important implications on the applicability of the P-based method to stabilize Pb within the first centimeters below surface of Pb-polluted alkaline soils, which potentially represent the most hazardous part of these soils.
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- Gautier Landrot
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, 91190, Saint Aubin, France.
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- Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, 50 Ngam Wong Wan Rd, Lat Yao Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.
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Matinrad F, Kompany-Zareh M, Omidikia N, Dadashi M. Systematic investigation of the measurement error structure in a smartphone-based spectrophotometer. Anal Chim Acta 2020; 1129:98-107. [PMID: 32891395 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2020.06.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Smartphones are state-of-the-art devices with several interesting features which make them promising for analytical purposes. After modification to a spectrophotometer (smart spectrophotometer), they can be utilized for the quantitative or qualitative applications. Although smartphones have widely been applied for sensing∖biosensing purposes, the error structure/type of their outputs remained unexplored. Error structure information values the objects/channels in a given data set and variables have the same importance when the noise has identical independent distribution (i.i.d). Otherwise, error structure weights them for further data analysis. In this contribution, a smartphone-based spectrophotometer was constructed integrating simple optical elements-a tungsten lamp as source and a piece of digital versatile disc (DVD) as a reflecting diffraction grating to investigate the error sources of the smartphone-spectrophotometer. For this purpose, error covariance matrices (ECMs) were calculated using a series of replication capturing error information. Afterwards, PCA and MCR-ALS were employed for the decomposition of the ECMs and resolved profiles were translated to the error types. Finally, proportional error as a heteroscedastic noise was highlighted as the most important source of variation in the error structure of the smartphone-based spectrophotometer.
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- Fereshteh Matinrad
- Chemistry Department, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, 45137-66731, Iran
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- Chemistry Department, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, 45137-66731, Iran; Trace Analysis Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
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- University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, P.O. Box 98135-674, Zahedan, Iran
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- Chemistry Department, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, 45137-66731, Iran
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Pérez Y, Casado M, Raldúa D, Prats E, Piña B, Tauler R, Alfonso I, Puig-Castellví F. MCR-ALS analysis of 1H NMR spectra by segments to study the zebrafish exposure to acrylamide. Anal Bioanal Chem 2020; 412:5695-706. [PMID: 32617759 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02789-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2020] [Revised: 05/31/2020] [Accepted: 06/24/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Metabolomics is currently an important field within bioanalytical science and NMR has become a key technique for drawing the full metabolic picture. However, the analysis of 1H NMR spectra of metabolomics samples is often very challenging, as resonances usually overlap in crowded regions, hindering the steps of metabolite profiling and resonance integration. In this context, a pre-processing method for the analysis of 1D 1H NMR data from metabolomics samples is proposed, consisting of the blind resolution and integration of all resonances of the spectral dataset by multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares (MCR-ALS). The resulting concentration estimates can then be examined with traditional chemometric methods such as principal component analysis (PCA), ANOVA-simultaneous component analysis (ASCA), and partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). Since MCR-ALS does not require the use of spectral templates, the concentration estimates for all resonances are obtained even before being assigned. Consequently, the metabolomics study can be performed without neglecting any relevant resonance. In this work, the proposed pipeline performance was validated with 1D 1H NMR spectra from a metabolomics study of zebrafish upon acrylamide (ACR) exposure. Remarkably, this method represents a framework for the high-throughput analysis of NMR metabolomics data that opens the way for truly untargeted NMR metabolomics analyses. Graphical abstract.
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Troein C, Siregar S, Op De Beeck M, Peterson C, Tunlid A, Persson P. OCTAVVS: A Graphical Toolbox for High-Throughput Preprocessing and Analysis of Vibrational Spectroscopy Imaging Data. Methods Protoc 2020; 3:E34. [PMID: 32369914 PMCID: PMC7359710 DOI: 10.3390/mps3020034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Revised: 04/27/2020] [Accepted: 04/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Modern vibrational spectroscopy techniques enable the rapid collection of thousands of spectra in a single hyperspectral image, allowing researchers to study spatially heterogeneous samples at micrometer resolution. A number of algorithms have been developed to correct for effects such as atmospheric absorption, light scattering by cellular structures and varying baseline levels. After preprocessing, spectra are commonly decomposed and clustered to reveal informative patterns and subtle spectral changes. Several of these steps are slow, labor-intensive and require programming skills to make use of published algorithms and code. We here present a free and platform-independent graphical toolbox that allows rapid preprocessing of large sets of spectroscopic images, including atmospheric correction and a new algorithm for resonant Mie scattering with improved speed. The software also includes modules for decomposition into constituent spectra using the popular Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares (MCR-ALS) algorithm, augmented by region-of-interest selection, as well as clustering and cluster annotation.
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- Carl Troein
- Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden; (S.S.); (C.P.)
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- Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden; (S.S.); (C.P.)
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden; (M.O.D.B.); (A.T.); (P.P.)
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- Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden; (S.S.); (C.P.)
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden; (M.O.D.B.); (A.T.); (P.P.)
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden; (M.O.D.B.); (A.T.); (P.P.)
- Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC), Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
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Bedia C, Sierra À, Tauler R. Application of chemometric methods to the analysis of multimodal chemical images of biological tissues. Anal Bioanal Chem 2020; 412:5179-90. [PMID: 32356097 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02595-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2019] [Revised: 02/20/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Current histology techniques, such as tissue staining or histochemistry protocols, provide very limited chemical information about the tissues. Chemical imaging technologies such as infrared, Raman, and mass spectrometry imaging, are powerful analytical techniques with a huge potential in describing the chemical composition of sample surfaces. In this work, three images of the same tissue slice using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry, infrared microspectroscopy, and an RGB picture from a conventional hematoxylin/eosin (H/E) staining are simultaneously analyzed. These fused images were analyzed by multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares (MCR-ALS), which provided, for each component, its distribution within the tissue surface, its IR spectrum fingerprint, its characteristic mass values, and the contribution of the RGB channels of the H/E staining. Compared with the individual analysis of each of the images alone, the fusion of the three images showed the relationship between the different types of chemical/biological information and enabled a better interpretation of the tissue under study. In addition, the least-squares projection of the MCR-ALS resolved spectra of components at low spatial resolution onto the IR and RBG images at high spatial resolution, provided a better delimitation of the sample constituents on the image, giving a more precise description of their distribution on the investigated tissue. The application of this procedure can be of interest in different research areas in which a good description of the spatial distribution of the chemical constituents of the samples is needed, such as in biomedicine, food, or environmental research.
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Boltia SA, Fayed AS, Musaed A, Hegazy MA. Bilinear and trilinear algorithms utilizing full and selected variables for resolution and quantitation of four components with overlapped spectral signals in bulk and syrup dosage form. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2019; 222:117219. [PMID: 31177007 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.117219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2018] [Revised: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Spectrophotometric-assisted chemometric techniques are beneficial for resolving spectral overlapping and are considered comparable to traditional chromatographic methods. In this work, different chemometric approaches were applied for simultaneous determination of Bromhexine HCl (BRHX), Guaifenesin (GUA) and Salbutamol sulphate (SALB) in the presence of Guaiacol (GUAIA), without any prior separation. Two-way and three-way techniques were applied. The resolving power of genetic algorithm (GA-PLS), trilinear partial least square (N-PLS) and multivariate curve resolution (MCR-ALS) were investigated. A set of 17 synthetic samples in the concentration range 10.0-30.0 μg/mL of BRHX, GUA and SALB and 6.0-10.0 μg/mL of GUAIA were used in the construction of the calibration models. Commercially available syrup dosage form was successfully analyzed by the developed methods without interference from formulation additives. The developed models were evaluated through calculation of root mean squared error of prediction (RMSEP), the obtained values were 0.263, 0.419 and 0.342 for BRHX, 0.254, 0.318 and 0.503 for GUA and 0.298, 0.268 and 0.302 for SALB using N-PLS, MCR-ALS and GA-PLS, respectively. The resolving power of the developed models was emphasized through comparison with a reported HPLC method, where no significant difference was found regarding both accuracy and precision.
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- Shereen A Boltia
- Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr Al-Aini Street, 11562 Cairo, Egypt.
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- Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr Al-Aini Street, 11562 Cairo, Egypt
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- Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Aden University, Yemen
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- Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr Al-Aini Street, 11562 Cairo, Egypt
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Ishihara S, Hattori Y, Otsuka M. MCR-ALS analysis of IR spectroscopy and XRD for the investigation of ibuprofen - nicotinamide cocrystal formation. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2019; 221:117142. [PMID: 31158774 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.117142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2019] [Revised: 05/07/2019] [Accepted: 05/17/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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To improve aqueous solubility, a poorly water-soluble active ingredient is classically combined with a conformer to form cocrystals. Hot melt extrusion is one preparation method for the formation of cocrystal solids. The aim of our study was to determine the optimal temperature conditions for the formation of ibuprofen and nicotinamide cocrystals using real-time infrared (IR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements. IR spectra and XRD patterns were subjected to multivariate curve resolution alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) analysis and decomposed into several components. Each component was descriptive of a specific step in the formation of the cocrystal. Cocrystal formation was followed by a separation phase between amorphous ibuprofen and crystalline nicotinamide. Our results suggest that, when using the hot melt exclusion method, careful consideration should be made towards optimizing processing temperatures in order to prevent amorphization and promote control over the process of cocrystal formation.
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- Sae Ishihara
- Faculty of Pharmacy, Musashino University, 1-1-20 Shin-machi, Nishi-Tokyo city, Tokyo 202-8585, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, Musashino University, 1-1-20 Shin-machi, Nishi-Tokyo city, Tokyo 202-8585, Japan; Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Musashino University, 1-1-20 Shin-machi, Nishi-Tokyo City, Tokyo 202-8585, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, Musashino University, 1-1-20 Shin-machi, Nishi-Tokyo city, Tokyo 202-8585, Japan; Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Musashino University, 1-1-20 Shin-machi, Nishi-Tokyo City, Tokyo 202-8585, Japan.
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Mas S, Torro A, Bec N, Fernández L, Erschov G, Gongora C, Larroque C, Martineau P, de Juan A, Marco S. Use of physiological information based on grayscale images to improve mass spectrometry imaging data analysis from biological tissues. Anal Chim Acta 2019; 1074:69-79. [PMID: 31159941 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2019.04.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2018] [Revised: 03/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/30/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The characterization of cancer tissues by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-mass spectrometry images (MALDI-MSI) is of great interest because of the power of MALDI-MS to understand the composition of biological samples and the imaging side that allows for setting spatial boundaries among tissues of different nature based on their compositional differences. In tissue-based cancer research, information on the spatial location of necrotic/tumoral cell populations can be approximately known from grayscale images of the scanned tissue slices. This study proposes as a major novelty the introduction of this physiologically-based information to help in the performance of unmixing methods, oriented to extract the MS signatures and distribution maps of the different tissues present in biological samples. Specifically, the information gathered from grayscale images will be used as a local rank constraint in Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares (MCR-ALS) for the analysis of MALDI-MSI of cancer tissues. The use of this constraint, setting absence of certain kind of tissues only in clear zones of the image, will help to improve the performance of MCR-ALS and to provide a more reliable definition of the chemical MS fingerprint and location of the tissues of interest. The general strategy to address the analysis of MALDI-MSI of cancer tissues will involve the study of the MCR-ALS results and the posterior use of MCR-ALS scores as dimensionality reduction for image segmentation based on K-means clustering. The resolution method will provide the MS signatures and their distribution maps for each tissue in the sample. Then, the resolved distribution maps for each biological component (MCR scores) will be submitted as initial information to K-means clustering for image segmentation to obtain information on the boundaries of the different tissular regions in the samples studied. MCR-ALS prior to K-means not only provides the desired dimensionality reduction, but additionally resolved non-biological signal contributions are not used and the weight given to the different biological components in the segmentation process can be modulated by suitable preprocessing methods.
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- S Mas
- Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac 10-12, 08028, Barcelona, Spain; Chemometrics Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, Universitat de Barcelona, B. Av. Diagonal, 645, 08028, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier (IRCM), INSERM U1194, Université de Montpellier, Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier (ICM), Montpellier, F-34298, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier (IRCM), INSERM U1194, Université de Montpellier, Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier (ICM), Montpellier, F-34298, France; Institute for Regenerative Medicine & Biotherapy (IRMB), INSERM U1183, CHRU of Montpellier, 80 Rue Augustin Fiche, Montpellier, F-34295, France
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- Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac 10-12, 08028, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering, Universitat de Barcelona, Marti i Franqués 1, Barcelona, 08028, Spain
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier (IRCM), INSERM U1194, Université de Montpellier, Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier (ICM), Montpellier, F-34298, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier (IRCM), INSERM U1194, Université de Montpellier, Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier (ICM), Montpellier, F-34298, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier (IRCM), INSERM U1194, Université de Montpellier, Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier (ICM), Montpellier, F-34298, France; Supportive Care Unit, Institut du Cancer de Montpellier (ICM), 208 Rue des Apothicaires, Montpellier, F-34298, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier (IRCM), INSERM U1194, Université de Montpellier, Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier (ICM), Montpellier, F-34298, France
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- Chemometrics Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, Universitat de Barcelona, B. Av. Diagonal, 645, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac 10-12, 08028, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering, Universitat de Barcelona, Marti i Franqués 1, Barcelona, 08028, Spain
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Grassi S, Strani L, Casiraghi E, Alamprese C. Control and Monitoring of Milk Renneting Using FT-NIR Spectroscopy as a Process Analytical Technology Tool. Foods 2019; 8:foods8090405. [PMID: 31547293 PMCID: PMC6770950 DOI: 10.3390/foods8090405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2019] [Revised: 09/07/2019] [Accepted: 09/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Failures in milk coagulation during cheese manufacturing can lead to decreased yield, anomalous behaviour of cheese during storage, significant impact on cheese quality and process wastes. This study proposes a Process Analytical Technology approach based on FT-NIR spectroscopy for milk renneting control during cheese manufacturing. Multivariate Curve Resolution optimized by Alternating Least Squares (MCR-ALS) was used for data analysis and development of Multivariate Statistical Process Control (MSPC) charts. Fifteen renneting batches were set up varying temperature (30, 35, 40 °C), milk pH (6.3, 6.5, 6.7), and fat content (0.1, 2.55, 5 g/100 mL). Three failure batches were also considered. The MCR-ALS models well described the coagulation processes (explained variance ≥99.93%; lack of fit <0.63%; standard deviation of the residuals <0.0067). The three identified MCR-ALS profiles described the main renneting phases. Different shapes and timing of concentration profiles were related to changes in temperature, milk pH, and fat content. The innovative implementation of MSPC charts based on T2 and Q statistics allowed the detection of coagulation failures from the initial phases of the process.
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- Silvia Grassi
- Department of Food, Environmental, and Nutritional Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, via G. Celoria 2, 20133 Milan, Italy.
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- Department of Food, Environmental, and Nutritional Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, via G. Celoria 2, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Department of Food, Environmental, and Nutritional Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, via G. Celoria 2, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Department of Food, Environmental, and Nutritional Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, via G. Celoria 2, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Yusuke Morisawa
- Department of Science, School of Science and Engineering, Kindai University
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