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Rapid and sensitive liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for the quantitation of epirubicin and identification of metabolites in biological samples
Authors:Rachel Wall  Gillian McMahon  Martin Clynes
Institution:a National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology (NICB), Dublin City University (DCU), Dublin 9, Ireland
b School of Chemical Sciences, DCU, Dublin 9, Ireland
c Dept. of Medical Oncology, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland
Abstract:A highly sensitive and selective liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) method has been developed for the determination of epirubicin in serum and cell specimens using daunorubicin as an internal standard. Using atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation (APCI), the epirubicin metabolites were readily distinguishable by their fragmentation pattern in the mass spectrometer. Selected reaction monitoring (SRM) mode was employed for quantitation of epirubicin and the metabolites. Following extraction, chromatography was performed on a C18 column with a mobile phase consisting of water-acetonitrile-formic acid, pH 3.2, with a flow rate of 200 μl/min. The limit of detection (LOD) and the limit of quantitation (LOQ) of this method in serum were determined to be 1.0 and 2.5 ng/ml, respectively. Linearity of the method was verified over the concentration range of 2.5-2000 ng/ml, with a high correlation coefficient (R2 ≥ 0.998). For the extraction procedure, an aliquot of 500 μl serum, spiked with internal standard, was extracted using a chloroform-2-isopropanol (2:1, v/v) mixture. The method has been applied to the analysis of epirubicin in cancer cell samples and the identification of known and unknown metabolites in clinical trial patient serum samples.
Keywords:Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)  Anthracyclines  Epirubicin  Atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation (APCI)  Serum  Cell culture
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