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2018

Development of a Highly-Sensitive Two-Dimensional HPLC System with Narrowbore Reversed-Phase and Microbore Enantioselective Columns and Application to the Chiral Amino Acid Analysis of the Mammalian Brain

CHROMATOGRAPHY
  • Aogu Furusho
  • ,
  • Reiko Koga
  • ,
  • Takeyuki Akita
  • ,
  • Yurika Miyoshi
  • ,
  • Masashi Mita
  • ,
  • Kenji Hamase

Volume
39
Number
2
First page
83
Last page
90
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.15583/jpchrom.2018.007
Publisher
SOC CHROMATOGRAPHIC SCIENCES

A highly-sensitive two-dimensional high-performance liquid chromatographic (2D-HPLC) system with narrowbore reversed-phase and microbore enantioselective columns has been developed for the determination of alanine (Ala) and serine (Ser) enantiomers. The amounts of D-amino acids in biological samples are extremely low in most cases and improvement in the sensitivity is still required. For a highly-sensitive analysis, a narrowbore reversed-phase column, KSAARP (1.5 mm x 500 mm, having a wider ID than the microbore column) was used in the first dimension, and a microbore enantioselective column, KSAACSP-001S (1.0 mm x 250 mm, having a narrower ID than the frequently reported enantioselective columns) was used in the second dimension. The amino acids were derivatized with 4-fluoro-7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole and detected by the fluorescence detectors. The 2D-HPLC system was validated using a mouse cerebrum in addition to the standard amino acids, and satisfactory calibration lines and precision results were obtained. In the mouse cerebrum, a large amount of D-Ser and a small amount of D-Ala were clearly observed. These results indicated that the present method is applicable to the determination of the trace amounts of D-amino acids in tissue samples.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.15583/jpchrom.2018.007
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000464547200005&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.15583/jpchrom.2018.007
  • ISSN : 1342-8284
  • eISSN : 1348-3315
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000464547200005

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