CZE and ESI-MS of Borate-Sugar Complexes

Capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) with electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry (MS) was used to study borate (B^?1) and sugar (L) complexes (L _x B^?1). Boric acid was adjusted to pH 10 with ammonium hydroxide to create an ESI-MS compatible CZE background electrolyte. We show for the first time that the electrophoretic peaks for each injected sugar contained both the substrates (i.e., sugar and/or multimers) and products (i.e., L _x B^?1). The effects of sheath liquid, temperature, and borate concentration were studied. The molecular mass information obtained from the ESI-MS provided new evidence on the mechanisms of borate-sugar complexation. Direct infusion ESI-MS and CZE-ESI-MS experiments strongly suggest that the formation of L _x B^?1 was from the direct reaction of a sugar or sugar multimer (L _x ) and B^?1. Larger L _x B^?1, where x > 2 were observed. Separation in the CZE dimension allows for the simultaneous analysis of a sugar mixture and simplified the ESI-MS analysis of sugars of the same molecular mass. The increase in sugar electrophoretic mobility caused by the increase in borate concentration was discussed in terms of the formation of L _x B^?1 complexes. In addition, the separation of five nucleosides by CZE using a borate electrolyte and detection using ESI-MS is demonstrated.     

CZE-ESI-MS联用测定小肽混合物的研究

研究肽的分离行为、测定方法及测定条件对蛋白质组学研究具有重要意义 .毛细管电泳 ( CE)作为一种高效、快速的分离方法 ,样品用量少 ,已被广泛应用于生物领域中 ,尤其是小肽和蛋白质的分离分析 .质谱 ( MS)能够进行微量鉴定 ,并提供精确的分子量和结构信息 ,使其成为小肽和蛋白质检测和序列测定的强有力的支撑技术之一 [1～ 3] .其中 ,电喷雾 ( ESI)质谱作为一种软电离技术 ,易与常规的高分辨率分离方法如高效液相色谱、毛细管电泳等实现在线联用 ,具有分离效率高、检测灵敏度高和样品定性方便等特点 ,因而在小肽和蛋白质的测定中得到广…     

Separation of multiphosphorylated peptide isomers by CZE

A separation of mono, doubly and triply phosphorylated isomers was developed with CZE with an aqueous electrolyte containing 3.9 mol/L formic acid and 30% v/v trifluoroethanol. Thus a mixture of ten phosphopeptides corresponding to the human tau sequence 226-240 was separated within 70 min. Although peptides with different phosphorylation degrees, i.e. 0-3 phosphate groups, were well separated, some of the phosphopeptide isomers containing one or two phosphate groups were only partially separated. The electrolyte system is compatible with both MALDI- and ESI-MS, allowing a direct coupling, and thus could have some interesting applications in proteomics.     

反相高效液相色谱法用于地钱中黄酮类化合物的分离与测定

采用反相高效液相色谱,在RP—C18柱上以乙酸-甲醇-乙腈-磷酸-水为多元流动相,等度洗脱,在30min内对地钱的黄酮提取物进行分离与测定,检测波长350nm,流速0．60mL／min,采用校准曲线法对实际样品中的芹菜素、槲皮素和木犀草素进行定量分析。结果表明：平均加标回收率96．79％～101．13％．相对标准偏差0．66％～1．52％．     

A new CZE method for profiling human serum albumin and its related forms to assess the quality of biopharmaceuticals

We present a new CZE method, which uses a polyethylene oxide-coated capillary to separate native HSA from more than five of its structural variants. These variants include oxidized, truncated, and cysteinylated forms of HSA which can all be found in biopharmaceutical products. Both CE and MS confirmed the high degree of heterogeneity of HSA preparations. Recovery studies demonstrated that adsorption of HSA on the capillary was significantly reduced under the conditions we developed, which led to a satisfactory repeatability (RSD for migration times and relative peak areas were less than 0.2 and 7.0%, respectively). Assignment of the main peaks was attempted using in vitro degraded/stressed HSA. We used our method to test batch-to-batch comparability and detected slight quantitative differences in the proportion of native HSA in batches produced from different fractionation methods.     

Synthesis and physicochemical characterization of two gadolinium(III) TTDA-like complexes and their interaction with human serum albumin

Two novel derivatives of TTDA (3,6,10-tri(carboxymethyl)-3,6,10-triazadodecanedioic acid), TTDA-BOM and TTDA-N'-BOM, each having a benzyloxymethyl group, were synthesized. (17)O NMR longitudinal and transverse relaxation rates and chemical shifts of aqueous solutions of their Gd(III) complexes were measured at variable temperature with a magnetic field strength of 9.4 T. The water exchange rate (k(ex)(298)) values for [Gd(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) (117 x 10(6) s(-1)) and [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) (131 x 10(6) s(-1)) are significantly higher than those of [Gd(DTPA)(H(2)O)](2-) (4.1 x 10(6) s(-1)) and [Gd(BOPTA)(H(2)O)](2-) (3.45 x 10(6) s(-1)). The rotational correlation time (tau) values for [Gd(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) (119 ps) and [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) (125 ps) are higher than those of [Gd(DTPA)(H(2)O)](2-) (103 ps) and [Gd(TTDA)(H(2)O)](2-) (104 ps). The stepwise stoichiometric binding constants of [Gd(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2)(-) and [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2)(-) bound to HSA are obtained by ultrafiltration studies. Fluorescent probe displacement studies exhibit that [Gd(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) and [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) can displace dansylsarcosine from HSA with inhibition constants (K(i)) of 1900 and 1600 microM, respectively; however, they are not able to displace warfarin. These results indicate that [Gd(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) and [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) have a weak binding to site II on HSA. In addition, the mean bound relaxivity (r(1b)) and bound relaxivity (r(1)(b)) values for the [Gd(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-)/HSA and [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-)/HSA adducts are obtained by ultrafiltration and relaxivity studies, respectively. The bound relaxivity of these adducts values are significantly higher than those of [Gd(BOPTA)(H(2)O)](2-)/HSA and [Gd(DTPA-BOM(3))(H(2)O)](2-)/HSA. These results also suggest that bound relaxivity is site dependent. In binding sites studies of Gd(III) chelates to HSA, a significant decrease of the relaxation rates (R(1obs)) was observed for the [Eu(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) complex which was added to the [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-)/HSA solution, and this indicated that these Gd(III) complexes share the same HSA binding site. Finally, as measured by the Zn(II) transmetalation process, the kinetic stability of these Gd(III) complexes are significantly higher than that of [Gd(DTPA-BMA)(H(2)O)].     

Binding of glycyrrhizin to human serum and human serum albumin

The binding of glycyrrhizin (GLZ) to human serum and human serum albumin (HSA) was examined by an ultrafiltration technique. Specific and nonspecific bindings were observed in both human serum and HSA. The association constants (K) for the specific bindings were very similar: 1.31 x 10(5) M-1 in human serum and 3.87 x 10(5) M-1 in HSA. The number of binding sites (n) and the linear binding coefficient (phi) in HSA were 1.95 and 3.09 x 10(3) M-1, respectively. When the human serum protein concentration was assumed to be 4.2% (equal to the measured serum albumin concentration), n in human serum was 3.09, which is similar to the n value in HSA, and phi in human serum was 0.71 x 10(3) M-1, which is reasonably close to that for HSA. The binding pattern of GLZ with human serum protein on Sephadex G-200 column chromatography showed that GLZ binds to only the albumin fraction. It was concluded that the GLZ-binding sites in human serum exist mainly on albumin and GLZ binds to specific and nonspecific binding sites at lower and higher concentrations than approximately 2 mM, respectively.     

Mass spectrometric characterization of covalent modification of human serum albumin by 4-hydroxy-trans-2-nonenal

Several pieces of evidence indicate that albumin modified by HNE is a promising biomarker of systemic oxidative stress and that HNE-modified albumin may contribute to the immune reactions triggered by lipid peroxidation-derived antigens. In this study, we found by HPLC analysis that HNE is rapidly quenched by human serum albumin (HSA) because of the covalent adduction to the different accessible nucleophilic residues of the protein, as demonstrated by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) direct infusion experiments (one to nine HNE adducts, depending on the molar ratio used, from 1:0.25 to 1:5 HSA:HNE). An LC-ESI-MS/MS approach was then applied to enzymatically digested HNE-modified albumin, which permitted the identification of 11 different HNE adducts, 8 Michael adducts (MA) and 3 Schiff bases (SB), involving nine nucleophilic sites, namely: His67 (MA), His146 (MA), His242 (MA), His288 (MA), His510 (MA), Lys 195 (SB), Lys 199 (MA, SB), Lys525 (MA, SB) and Cys34 (MA). The most reactive HNE-adduction site was found to be Cys34 (MA) followed by Lys199, which primarily reacts through the formation of a Schiff base, and His146, giving the corresponding HNE Michael adduct. These albumin modifications are suitable tags of HNE-adducted albumin and could be useful biomarkers of oxidative and carbonylation damage in humans.     

Oligomers of human serum albumin modified by glutaraldehyde

When human serum albumin is modified with glutaraldehyde, in addition to the trivial modification of the free amino groups of the monomer, the formation of dimers, trimers, and tetramers of albumin takes place through glutaraldehyde cross-linkages.Scientific-Research Institute of Virology, Ministry of Health of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 98–101, January–February, 1991.     

Separation and quantitation of human plasma acid stable trypsin inhibitors by RP-HPLC

Summary Human plasma contains acid stable trypsin inhibitors (ASTIs) which are present in small quantities and are bound tightly but reversibly to the enzyme. For the analysis of such endogenous inhibitors a procedure has been proposed analogous to that described by us for urinary trypsin inhibitors (UTIs). This chromatographic procedure allows a direct measurement of such substances and avoids the remarkable losses which, as a rule, are connected with the isolation methods so far used. Two ASTIs are selectively isolated by affinity chromatography on immobilized trypsin and separated by RP-HPLC when an acidified plasma sample (1 ml) is treated. These ASTIs have apparent m.w. of ca. 72000 and 18000 daltons, respectively. A third ASTI, having apparent m.w. of ca. 6000 daltons, is evidenced when at least 20 ml of plasma sample were processed with an unusual procedure which avoids the adsorption on the protein precipitate formed in acid treatment. For each ASTI determination, reproducibility, linearity range, recovery (95%) and detection limit are reported.

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Trennung und quantitative Bestimmung von säurebeständigen Trypsininhibitoren des menschlichen Plasmas durch RP-HPLC

     

Monolayers of human serum albumin

Summary The influence of different factors on the spreading of human serum albumin films is studied; factors such as the ionic strength of the spreading solution, nature and concentration of the alcohol used as spreading agent, initial spreading area of the subsolution to which the protein solution was applied and the method for the spreading (direct orTrurnit). The results obtained show that the ideal spreading solution is the buffer ph=5.1,=0.01, containing 0.5% amyl alcohol (v:v). TheTrurnit's method of spreading proteins showed significant advantage over the direct deposit of drops of the protein solutions.     

Synthesis and characterization of glycosylated nitrogen mustard derivatives and their interaction with bovine serum albumin

To improve the specificity of nitrogen mustards towards tumor cells, glucose-nitrogen mustard, fructose-nitrogen mustard, and lactose-nitrogen mustard were prepared as three novel glycosylated nitrogen mustard derivatives by esterification of bis(2-chloroethyl)carbamic chloride (BCC) with glucose, fructose, and lactose, respectively. BCC was synthesized from bis(2-chloroethyl)amine hydrochloride and triphosgene. The topic products were characterized by infrared (IR) and mass spectrometry (MS), and their interaction with bovine serum albumin was investigated by measuring fluorescence spectra in tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane hydrochloride (Tris–HCl) buffer solution at physiological conditions.     

Detection of varicocele by using 99mTc-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid human serum albumin (99mTc-DTPA human serum albumin)

In order to detect the varicocele, scrotal scintigraphies by using 99mTc-HSA-D were performed in 14 patients with male infertile or palpable mass in left scrotum on physical examinations. Abnormal pooling of 99mTc-HSA-D, indicative of varicocele lesion, could be found in left scrotum in 9 cases, confirmed surgically or clinically. Compared with 99mTc-HSA, 99mTc-HSA-D was superior in high uptake ratio of varicocele to soft tissue and in nonvisualization of bladder. Thus, 99mTc-HSA-D scrotal scintigraphy seemed to be of a great use to detect the varicocele.     

Polarographic investigation of conformational changes of human serum albumin: Part I. Unfolding of human serum albumin by urea

The mechanism of the unfolding of human serum albumin by urea was studied using d. c. polarography. It was found that this reaction is a complex process which cannot be described in terms of a two-state transition model. As well as the Brdička catalytic current we have also studied the reduction current of disulfide groups in native and denatured human serum albumin. The number of cystine residues accessible for electrode reduction in native and denatured protein was calculated. On the basis of these results a scheme for the unfolding of human serum albumin by urea is proposed.     

流动注射化学发光法灵敏检测人血清白蛋白

基于人血清白蛋白(HSA)在碱性介质中对luminol-H2O2化学发光体系有很强的增敏作用,提出了一种流动注射化学发光测定HSA的新方法。在优化条件下,HSA的线性范围为7.5×10-10～2.8×10-7mol/L,检出限为9.1×10-11mol/L,样品检测频率达102个/h。对2.0×10-8mol/L HSA平行测定11次,RSD为0.9%。方法可应用于实际样品人血清中HSA含量的测定。结合化学发光光谱和紫外可见吸收光谱,对该反应机理进行了探讨。     

The orientation of protoberberine alkaloids and their binding activities to human serum albumin by surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Raman and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) technique are reliably used to compare relative intensity shifts and to investigate the adsorption geometry of protoberberine alkaloids on Ag nanoparticles. We report joint application of fluorescence and SERS spectroscopy to study the interaction between protoberberine alkaloids and human serum albumin (HSA). We propose SERS technique to improve the quenching interaction caused by protoberberine alkaloids which are used to be applied in recognition process of fluorescent drugs with large biomolecules. The fluorescence results show that the fluorescence intensity of HSA is significantly decreased in presence of protoberberine alkaloids. The SERS technique demonstrates obvious advantages over direct measurements in discriminating and identifying pharmaceutical molecules. By means of this method, we are able to detect important information concerning the orientation of protoberberine alkaloids when interacting with HSA. We also show that the nitrogen atom is free, but a benzene ring and two adjacent methoxy groups are involved in the spontaneously electrostatic inducement and subsequently binding with HSA.     

钙黄绿素分光光度法测定人血清白蛋白

基于在pH为3.5的Clark-Lubs缓冲溶液条件下,人血清白蛋白与钙黄绿素结合使钙黄绿素的吸光度降低的原理,建立了钙黄绿素分光光度法测定人血清白蛋白测定方法,质量浓度在1.14～17.1 mg/L范围内,吸光度的降低与人血清白蛋白质量浓度呈线性关系,检出限为0.94 mg/L.     

Separation of the Hageman factor fragment from human serum albumin by chromatography on blue sepharose CL-6B

The separation of the Hageman factor fragment (HFf) activity from human serum albumin by chromatography on Blue Sepharose CL-6B is described. The complete separation cannot be achieved in a single chromatography step due to complex formation between HFf and albumin.