Poplar catkin: A natural biomaterial for highly specific and efficient enrichment of sialoglycopeptides

Sialic acids as terminal entities of larger glycans linked to proteins and lipids are involved in multiple different pathological and physiological processes. Structural characterisation of sialoglycoconjugates is required to understand their biological function. However, a comprehensive sialylation analysis of sialoglycoconjugates has remained challenges. In this study, we employ a natural biomaterial, poplar catkin derived from white poplar tree (Populus tomentosa Carr.), to develop a novel capturing microtip for selective and efficient enrichment of sialoglycopeptides, without losses of sialic acid residues and water molecules from sialoglycopeptides. Scanning electron microscopy and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy analysis, along with Mäule and Wiesner staining assays, indicated that the main components on the outer layer of the poplar catkin are syringyl and guaiacyl lignins which play a key role in enriching sialoglycopeptides from complex peptide mixture.     

An efficient approach for enrichment of three isochlorogenic acids from Kuding tea using MCI-GEL resin

Kuding tea are used as a traditional tea material and widely consumed in China. Isochlorogenic acids are considered to be one of the major functional ingredients. In this study, nine types of resins including six macroporous resins and three MCI-GEL resins were investigated by adsorption and desorption tests toward the isochlorogenic acids. The HP50SS was selected as the optimal one and the effect of several factors were investigated to make optimization of the adsorption and desorption conditions for enrichment of isochlorogenic acids. As a result, 38.50?mg of refined extract including 31.70?mg total isochlorogenic acids could be separated and enriched from 500.0?mg of crude extract in which the content of total isochlorogenic acids was 8.6% and the recovery of isochlorogenic acids reached 73.4%. Meanwhile, under optimal dynamic adsorption and desorption conditions, the final contents of total isochlorogenic acids increased 9.3-fold when compared to that of crude extract in a scale-up enriched experiment. The results demonstrated that the HP50SS MCI-GEL resin was suitable for purification and enrichment of isochlorogenic acids from Kuding tea. The established protocol was high-efficiency, low-cost and environment-friendly, which could afford a potential approach for industrial applications to enrich and concentrate isochlorogenic acids from Kuding tea.     

A hirshfeld surface analysis,crystal structure and physicochemical characterization of 1-ethylpiperazinium trichlorocadmate(II)

A novel organic–inorganic hybrid material, C₆H₁₅N₂CdCl₃.H₂O, was synthesized, and its structure was determined at room temperature in the monoclinic space group P2₁/n with the following parameters: a = 10.3829 (17), b = 7.7459 (12), c = 14.905 (2) Å, β = 98.801 (15), and Z = 4. Its crystal structure is characterized by one-dimensional polymeric chains of edge-sharing CdCl₅N distorted octahedra. These chains are linked to the water molecules via OH … Cl hydrogen bonds to form layers parallel to the (b, a + c) plane. The crystal structure was stabilized by an extensive network of NH … Cl, OH … Cl and NH … O hydrogen bonds. The differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) reveals that the title compound is stable until 101.6 °C.The optimized geometry parameters, normal mode frequencies, and corresponding vibrational assignments of the present compound were theoretically examined by DFT/B3LYP method with the Lanl2dz basis set. The FT-IR spectrum of the polycrystalline sample was examined and compared to the calculated spectrum. The calculated results showed that the optimized geometry could well reproduce the crystal structure and that the theoretical vibrational frequency values were in good agreement with their experimental counterparts.     

Enrichment and separation of acidic and basic proteins using the centrifugal ultrafiltration followed by nanoparticle-filled capillary electrophoresis

This report describes a method for enrichment and separation of acidic and basic proteins using the centrifugal ultrafiltration followed by nanoparticle-filled capillary electrophoresis. To improve stacking and separation efficiencies of proteins, the separation buffer containing 1.6% poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) was added with gold nanoparticles (AuNP), poly(ethylene oxide), cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, and poly(vinyl alcohol). As a result, the use of AuNP as additives exhibited better efficiency in separation, stacking, and analysis time. Even for large-volume samples (110 nL), the separation efficiencies of acidic and basic proteins remained greater than 10(4) and 10(5) plates/m, respectively. To further enhance detection sensitivity, protein samples were enriched using the centrifugal ultrafiltration, followed by our proposed stacking method. The detection sensitivity was improved up to 314-fold compared to normal hydrodynamic injection. Additionally, the limits of detection at a signal-to-noise of 3 for most proteins were down to nanomolar range. We have validated the application of our method by means of analyses of 50 nM lysozyme in saliva samples. The proposed method was also successfully applied to the analyses of egg-white proteins, which have large differences in molecular weight and pI.     

纳米钛酸锶钡粉体吸附富集-火焰原子吸收光谱法测定水样中锰离子

提出了纳米钛酸锶钡粉体吸附富集,火焰原子吸收光谱法测定水中痕量锰的含量。在pH 6的氨性缓冲介质中,采用纳米钛酸锶钡(0.02 g)对水样(10 mL)中的锰离子振荡吸附15 min。优化条件下吸附容量达5.4 mg.g-1。方法检出限(3s/k)为2.1μg.L-1。用0.15 mg.L-1锰(Ⅱ)标准溶液连续测定6次,求得其相对标准偏差(n=6)为3.4%。用于河水和地下水中痕量锰的测定,用标准加入法测得方法的回收率在93.5%~99.7%之间。     

The use of liquid phase deposition prepared phosphonate grafted silica nanoparticle‐deposited capillaries in the enrichment of phosphopeptides

In our current work, we describe how open tubular‐immobilized metal‐ion affinity chromatography (OT‐IMAC) capillary columns connected to a solid phase microextraction (in‐tube SPME) device can be used for the enrichment of phosphopeptides. A phosphonate modified silica nanoparticle (NP)‐deposited capillary was prepared by liquid phase deposition (LPD), and used for the immobilization of Fe³⁺, Zr⁴⁺ or Ti⁴⁺. The enrichment capacities of three different OT‐IMAC capillary columns were compared by using tryptically digested α‐casein as sample. The improved extraction efficiency in our technique was demonstrated by comparing to a directly modified capillary, and a comparison of phosphopeptide extraction from simple and complex samples was tested for both modes. Our results show that the NP‐IMAC‐Zr⁴⁺ capillary column can be used to selectively isolate phosphopeptides from real samples, and can enrich for β‐casein phosphopeptides from concentrations as low as 1.7×10^?9 M.     

离子交换树脂在分析化学中的应用

简要评述了离子交换树脂在分析化学中的应用。包括离子交换树脂预富集技术从稀溶液中浓缩痕量离子,离子交换树脂相分光光度法测定微量离子,离子色谱在无机分析中的应用,以及离子交换树脂在有机分析与生化分析中的应用。     

Cellulose based macromolecular chelator having pyrocatechol as an anchored ligand: synthesis and applications as metal extractant prior to their determination by flame atomic absorption spectrometry

Pyrocatechol is immobilized on cellulose via ---NH---CH₂---CH₂---NH---SO₂---C₆H₄---N=N--- linker and the resulting macromolecular chelator characterized by IR, TGA, CPMAS ¹³C NMR and elemental analyses. It has been used for enrichment of Cu(II), Zn(II), Fe(III), Ni(II), Co(II), Cd(II) and Pb(II) prior to their determination by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). The pH ranges for quantitative sorption (98.0–99.4%) are 4.0–7.0, 5.0–6.0, 3.0–4.0, 5.0–7.0, 5.0–8.0, 7.0–8.0 and 4.0–5.0, respectively. The desorption was found quantitative with 0.5 mol dm⁻³ HCl/HNO₃ (for Pb). The sorption capacity of the matrix for the seven metal ions has been found in the range 85.3–186.2 μmol g⁻¹. The optimum flow rate of metal ion solution for quantitative sorption of metal onto pyrocatechol functionalized cellulose as determined by column method, is 2–6 cm³ min⁻¹, whereas for desorption it is 2–4 cm³ min⁻¹. The tolerance limits for NaCl, NaBr, NaI, NaNO₃, Na₂SO₄, Na₃PO_4, humic acid, EDTA, ascorbic acid, citric acid, sodium tartrate, Ca(II) and Mg(II) in the sorption of all the seven metal ions are reported. Ascorbic acid is tolerable up to 0.8 mmol dm⁻³ with Cu and Pb where as sodium tartrate does not interfere up to 0.6 mmol dm⁻³ with Pb. There is no interference of NaBr, NaCl and NaNO₃ up to a concentration of 0.5 mol dm⁻³, in the sorption of Cu(II), Cd(II) and Fe(III) on to the chelating cellulose matrix The preconcentration factors are between 75 and 300 and t_1/2 values ≤5 min for all the metal ions. Simultaneous sorption of Cu, Zn, Ni and Co is possible at pH 5.0 if their total concentration does not exceed lowest sorption capacity. The present matrix coupled with FAAS has been used to enrich and determine the seven metal ions in river and tap water samples (relative standard deviation (R.S.D.) 1.05–7.20%) and synthetic certified water sample SLRS-4 (NRC, Canada) with R.S.D. 2.03%. The cobalt present in pharmaceutical vitamin tablets was also preconcentrated on the modified cellulose and determined by FAAS (R.S.D. 1.87%).     

4-{[(2-Hydroxyphenyl)imino]methyl}-1,2-benzenediol (HIMB) anchored Amberlite XAD-16: Preparation and applications as metal extractants

Amberlite XAD-16 was loaded with 4-{[(2-hydroxyphenyl)imino]methyl}-1,2-benzenediol (HIMB) via azo linker and the resulting resin AXAD-16-HIMB explored for enrichment of Zn(II), Mn(II), Ni(II), Pb(II), Cd(II), Cu(II), Fe(III) and Co(II) in the pH range 5.0-8.0. The sorption capacity was found between 56 and 415 μmol g⁻¹ and the preconcentration factors from 150 to 300. Tolerance limits for foreign species are reported. The kinetics of sorption is not slow, as t_1/2 is ≤15 min. The chelating resin can be reused for seventy cycles of sorption-desorption without any significant change (<2.0%) in the sorption capacity. The limit of detection values (blank + 3 s) are 1.72, 1.30, 2.56, 2.10, 0.44, 2.93, 2.45 and 3.23 μg l⁻¹ for Zn, Mn, Ni, Pb, Cd, Cu, Fe and Co, respectively. The enrichment on AXAD-16-HIMB coupled with flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) monitoring is used to determine the metal ion ions in river and synthetic water samples, Co in vitamin tablets and Zn in powdered milk samples.