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Analysis of arginine and methylated metabolites in human plasma by field amplified sample injection capillary electrophoresis tandem mass spectrometry.

Istituto di Chimica del Riconoscimento Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, c/o Istituto di Biochimica e Biochimica Clinica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
Electrophoresis (impact factor: 3.3). 06/2010; 31(11):1894-902. DOI:10.1002/elps.200900690 pp.1894-902
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ABSTRACT A CE ion trap tandem MS method was optimised for the analysis of arginine, monomethyl- and (symmetric and asymmetric) dimethylarginines in human plasma after a very reduced sample pretreatment step involving a simple protein precipitation with ACN. Several parameters affecting the analytes MS ionization and the capillary electrophoretic separation were carefully studied and optimised. The complete separation of arginine, monomethylarginine and symmetric and asymmetric dimethylarginine was obtained in formic acid BGE in short analysis time with high specificity due to MS(2) detection of specific analytes fragments. In order to achieve the detection sensitivity suitable for the analysis of asymmetric and symmetric dimethylarginine in human plasma, the field amplified sample injection was applied. Due to stacking effects, this methodology allowed to operate a consistent on-line preconcentration of the analytes before running the electrophoresis. The method was validated for linearity, repeatability, recovery and accuracy and applied to the quantitative analysis of arginine, monomethyl- and dimethylarginines in human plasma of healthy subjects.

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    Article: Improved method for plasma ADMA, SDMA, and arginine quantification by field-amplified sample injection capillary electrophoresis UV detection.
    Angelo Zinellu, Salvatore Sotgia, Maria Franca Usai, Gianfranco Pintus, Luca Deiana, Ciriaco Carru
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    ABSTRACT: Here, we describe an easy field-amplified sample injection capillary electrophoresis method with UV detection for the separation and detection of free plasma arginine and dimethylated arginines. The analytes were baseline-separated within 22 min by using 50 mmol/L Tris phosphate pH 2.3 as running buffer. The plasma samples were treated with acetonitrile/ammonia for protein elimination, the supernatants were dried, re-swollen in water and directly injected in the capillary without complex cleanup by solid phase extraction and/or tedious sample derivatization procedures. Due to the stacking effects of the electrokinetic injection, it was possible to operate a consistent on-line pre-concentration of the analytes before running the electrophoresis. This procedure allowed to reach a detection limit in the real sample of 10 nmol/L for dimethylated arginines and 20 nmol/L for arginine, thus improving about threefold our previous method, that required a more complicated pre-analytical procedure to concentrate samples. The recovery of plasma ADMA was 99-104% and inter-day CV was less than 3%. The assay performance was evaluated measuring the levels of arginine and its dimethyl derivatives in 50 subjects. The statistical tests for the methods comparison suggest that the data obtained by our new method and by our previous CE assay are similar.
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Keywords

arginine
 
asymmetric
 
asymmetric dimethylarginine
 
capillary electrophoretic separation
 
complete separation
 
detection sensitivity suitable
 
dimethylarginines
 
electrophoresis
 
field amplified sample injection
 
formic acid BGE
 
healthy subjects
 
human plasma
 
linearity
 
quantitative analysis
 
reduced sample pretreatment step
 
simple protein precipitation
 
specific analytes fragments
 
specificity
 
symmetric
 
symmetric dimethylarginine