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An LC/ESI-MS/MS Method for Quantification of Hexanoylglycine in Three Different Urine Samples Within a Single Run Using Triplex 1-[(4- Diethylaminophenyl)carbonyl]piperazine Isotopologues
Wataru HOBOAkihiro JOSae KOYAGIShoujiro OGAWAShoichi NISHIMOTO-KUSUNOSETatsuya HIGASHI
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2022 Volume 43 Issue 3 Pages 111-117

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Abstract

Liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS/MS) has the great ability to accurately and precisely quantify various biomolecules, but there is a concern about its analysis time, especially during the analysis of a high number of samples. Sample-multiplexing in the same injection is a promising strategy for reducing the total analysis time. This strategy can be accomplished by derivatization of multiple samples with multiple isotopologous reagents. In this study, a sample-triplex LC/ESI-MS/MS assay was developed for quantifying the urinary hexanoylglycine (HG), a diagnostic marker of medium-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency, in three different samples within a single run. For this purpose, the 1-[(4-diethylaminophenyl)carbonyl]piperazine (DEAPPZ) isotopologues (2H0-, 2H3- and 2H6-forms) were synthesized. When compared to the non-derivatization method, which analyzed one sample in each run, the analysis time after the sample pretreatment was reduced to 55% (390 min → 210 min) for 30 samples in the sample-triplex method, which also had an acceptable precision (intra- and inter-assay precisions; ≤ 5.9% and ≤ 9.1%, respectively) and accuracy (91.7–97.1%). Thus, the sample-triplex strategy using the DEAPPZ isotopologues could successfully reduce the analysis time in the urinary HG quantification.

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