Loredana Lupu, Wolfgang Kleinekofort, Nina Morgner
{"title":"Epitope characterization of proteins and aptamers with mass spectrometry.","authors":"Loredana Lupu, Wolfgang Kleinekofort, Nina Morgner","doi":"10.1177/14690667231208530","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14690667231208530","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The way in which professor Michael Przybylski has combined the spirit of research with entrepreneurship has set an example for any and all scientists. He has made significant achievements in the fields of mass spectrometry, biochemistry and medicine, and has initiated important technological developments in the area of protein analysis. Between 2016 and 2023 professor Przybylski's scientific focus shifted on protein interactions with emphasis on aptamer-protein and antibody-protein analysis. This review focuses on professor Przybylski's achievements in the last few years highlighting his impact on the scientific community, on his students and colleagues.</p>","PeriodicalId":12007,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Mass Spectrometry","volume":" ","pages":"359-369"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92153326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Trimpin, Ellen Inutan, Hope Coffinberger, Khoa Hoang, Frank Yenchick, James Wager-Miller, Milan Pophristic, Ken Mackie, Charles N McEwen
{"title":"Instrumentation development, improvement, simplification, and miniaturization: The multifunctional plate source for use in mass spectrometry.","authors":"Sarah Trimpin, Ellen Inutan, Hope Coffinberger, Khoa Hoang, Frank Yenchick, James Wager-Miller, Milan Pophristic, Ken Mackie, Charles N McEwen","doi":"10.1177/14690667231211486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14690667231211486","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In remembrance of Prof. Dr Przybylski, we are presenting a vision towards his beloved mass spectrometry (MS) and its far-reaching promises outside of the academic laboratory. Sub-atmospheric pressure (AP) ionization MS is well positioned to make a step-change in direct ionization, a concept that allows <i>sublimation/evaporation</i> ionization and mass analyses of volatile and nonvolatile molecules from clean or dirty samples, directly, accurately, sensitively, and in a straightforward manner that has the potential to expand the field of MS into unchartered application areas. Contrary to ambient ionization MS, ionization commences in the sub-AP region of the mass spectrometer, important for practical and safety reasons, and offers <i>inter alia</i>, simplicity, speed, sensitivity, and robustness directly from real-world samples without cleanup. The plate source concept, presented here, provides an easy to use, rapid, and direct sample introduction from AP into the sub-AP of a mass spectrometer. Utilizing sub-AP ionization MS based on the plate source concept, small to large molecules from various environments that would be deemed too dirty for some direct MS methods are demonstrated. The new source concept can be expanded to include multiple ionization methods using the same plate source \"front end\" without the need to vent the mass spectrometer between the different methods, thus allowing ionization of more compounds on the same mass spectrometer for which any one ionization method may be insufficient. Examples such as fentanyl, gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, clozapine, 1-propionyllysergic acid, hydrocodone angiotensin I and II, myoglobin, and carbonic anhydrase are included.</p>","PeriodicalId":12007,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Mass Spectrometry","volume":"29 5-6","pages":"276-291"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138298777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensitive and rapid quantitation of dexamethasone in human plasma using liquid chromatography coupled with triple quadrupole mass spectrometer.","authors":"Naveen Kumar Dubey, Peeyush Jain","doi":"10.1177/14690667231194812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14690667231194812","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this paper was to develop, validate, and utilize a sensitive liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry bioanalytical method for bioequivalence/clinical trial studies conducted in human plasma. To accomplish the target, a stable labeled internal standard, that is, dexamethasone D<sub>4</sub> was used as an internal standard to track and compensate the parent compound during processing, and extraction from plasma. The method involves a rapid liquid-liquid phase extraction from plasma, followed by reverse phase chromatography, and mass spectrometry detection, with a total run time of 3.5 min. The method was developed and validated from 2 to 600 ng/ml for dexamethasone. The mean recovery for dexamethasone was found to be 81.0%. The validated method enabled the analysis of dexamethasone in samples from clinical pharmacokinetic studies. The peak concentration of dexamethasone ranged between 253 to 281 ng/ml and 319 to 343 ng/ml, respectively, in fasted and fed conditions. The terminal half-life values for dexamethasone ranged between 3.5 to 8.2 h and 3.0 to 7.5 h, respectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":12007,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Mass Spectrometry","volume":"29 4","pages":"240-247"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10420691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development and validation of a simple microwave-assisted digestion sample preparation technique for the estimation of aluminium and magnesium in a few pharmaceutical dosage forms by an inductively coupled-mass spectrometer (ICP-MS).","authors":"Ashish Kumar Pal, Raja Sundararajan","doi":"10.1177/14690667231184114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14690667231184114","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Rationale:</b> A simple, sensitive, reliable, validated, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometric method for the determination of aluminium and magnesium using a simple common microwave-assisted digestion sample preparation technique for a few commonly used formulations was developed and validated according to International Conference on Harmonization Q3D and the United States Pharmacopeia general chapter <232> and <233>. The following pharmaceutical dosage forms were considered for estimation of aluminium and magnesium: Alumina, magnesia simethicone oral suspension, Alumina, magnesia simethicone chewable tablets, alumina and magnesia oral suspension, alumina and magnesium carbonate oral suspension. <b>Methods:</b> The methodology included optimizing a common microwave assisted digestion method, selecting the isotopes, choosing the measurement technique, and designating internal standards. The finalized microwave assisted procedure was a two-step program where in the first step the samples were ramped for 10 min to a temperature of 180 °C and hold for 5 min followed by ramping for 10 min to a temperature of 200 °C and hold for 10 min. Magnesium (<sup>24</sup>Mg) and aluminium (<sup>27</sup>Al) isotopes were finalized, internal standard assigned for both the isotopes was yttrium (<sup>89</sup>Y) with Helium (kinetic energy discrimination-KED) as the measuring mode. System suitability was run before initiating analysis to ensure that system performance was consistent. <b>Results:</b> Analytical validation parameters like specificity, linearity (from 25% to 200% of sample concentration), the detection limit and the limit of quantification were established. For all these dosage forms, the method's precision was demonstrated by analyzing the percentage relative standard deviation for six injections. Accuracy was established from 50% to 150% of instrument working concentration (J-levels) for aluminium and magnesium for all the formulations and was found to be within the range of 90-120%. <b>Conclusion:</b> This common analysis method, along with the common microwave-digestion technique applies to numerous types of matrices for a finished dosage form with aluminium and magnesium.</p>","PeriodicalId":12007,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Mass Spectrometry","volume":"29 4","pages":"262-271"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10054182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nathan W Fenwick, Richard Telford, William H C Martin, Richard D Bowen
{"title":"Hammett correlation in competition experiments in dissociation of ionised substituted benzophenones and dibenzylideneacetones.","authors":"Nathan W Fenwick, Richard Telford, William H C Martin, Richard D Bowen","doi":"10.1177/14690667231184363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14690667231184363","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A convenient method of applying competition experiments to devise a Hammett correlation in the dissociation by α-cleavage of 17 ionised 3- and 4-substituted benzophenones, YC<sub>6</sub>H<sub>4</sub>COC<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub> [Y=F, Cl, Br, CH<sub>3</sub>, CH<sub>3</sub>O, NH<sub>2</sub>, CF<sub>3</sub>, OH, NO<sub>2</sub>, CN and N(CH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>] is reported and discussed. The results given by this approach, which rely on the relative abundance of [M-C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub>]<sup>+</sup> and [M-C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>4</sub>Y]<sup>+</sup> ions in the electron ionisation spectra of the substituted benzophenones, are compared with those obtained by previous methods. Various refinements of the method are considered, including reducing the ionising electron energy, making allowance for the relative abundance of ions such as C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub><sup>+</sup> and C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>4</sub>Y<sup>+</sup>, which may be formed to some extent by secondary fragmentation, and using substituent constants other than the standard σ constants. The reaction constant, ρ, of 1.08, which is in good agreement with that deduced previously, is consistent with a considerable reduction in electron density (corresponding to an increase in positive charge) at the carbon of the carbonyl group during fragmentation. This method has been successfully extended to the corresponding cleavage of 12 ionised substituted dibenzylideneacetones, YC<sub>6</sub>H<sub>4</sub>CH=CHCOCH=CHC<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub> (Y=F, Cl, CH<sub>3</sub>, OCH<sub>3</sub>, CF<sub>3</sub>, and NO<sub>2</sub>), which may fragment to form either a substituted cinnamoyl cation, [YC<sub>6</sub>H<sub>4</sub>CH=CHCO]<sup>+</sup>, or the cinnamoyl cation, [C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub>CH=CHCO]<sup>+</sup>. The derived ρ value of 0.76 indicates that the substituent, Y, influences the stability of the cinnamoyl cation somewhat less strongly than it does the analogous benzoyl cation.</p>","PeriodicalId":12007,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Mass Spectrometry","volume":"29 4","pages":"211-219"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10466955/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10126170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification and characterization of stress degradation products of ibrutinib by LC-UV/PDA and LC-Q/TOF-MS studies.","authors":"Bidisha Mondal, Alka Bali, Tanvi Sharma","doi":"10.1177/14690667231194814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14690667231194814","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The anticancer drug ibrutinib was subjected to stress degradation studies under the ICH-prescribed hydrolytic, photolytic, oxidative and thermal stress conditions, and its degradation behavior was studied. A significant degradation was noted for the drug under acidic/alkaline hydrolytic, acid/alkaline photolytic, and oxidative conditions. The UPLC-UV/PDA studies revealed the generation of six degradation products (<b>I-VI</b>), and these were adequately resolved from the drug under the developed chromatographic conditions over a Kinetex® C18 (100 mm×4.6 mm; 2.6 μm) column employing isocratic elution method. Detection wavelength was selected as 289 nm. The UPLC-UV/PDA method conditions were extrapolated to UPLC-MS/TOF studies. All the six degradation products were found to be ionized in the total ion chromatogram, and the products could be identified and characterized from their mass spectral data. The possible degradation route of ibrutinib leading to generation of various products was also postulated.</p>","PeriodicalId":12007,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Mass Spectrometry","volume":"29 4","pages":"248-261"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10421218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protonation of gabapentin: Ion mobility spectrometry and computational study.","authors":"Manijeh Tozihi, Hamed Bahrami, Mohammadreza Zarifian, Morteza Vahedpour","doi":"10.1177/14690667231184106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14690667231184106","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Protonation of gabapentin was studied using corona discharge ion mobility spectrometry with two types of reactant ions at temperature of 200°C. It was found that at elevated temperatures, ionization of gabapentin proceeds via two channels, including the protonation and reactant ion attachment, in the presence of both hydronium and ammonium reactant ions. The effect of the sample concentration on the relative intensity of product ion peaks was also studied. It turned out that in high concentrations, in addition to the protonation of gabapentin, binding of the reactant ion and the formation of proton-bound dimer also occurred, while in low concentrations, the only product of the ionization process is protonated gabapentin. Density functional theory (DFT) with B3LYP and M062X functionals employing the same basis set 6-311++G(d,p) was used to extend the experimental findings. The structures of the several conformers of neutral and protonated gabapentin were obtained. Based on them, topical proton affinity and topical gas-phase basicity of gabapentin were calculated for selected conformers. The attachment of reactant ions to neutral gabapentin and formation of proton-bound dimer were thermodynamically studied.</p>","PeriodicalId":12007,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Mass Spectrometry","volume":"29 4","pages":"220-230"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10055169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/14690667231195424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14690667231195424","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12007,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Mass Spectrometry","volume":"29 4","pages":"272"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10432291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Long-term <i>in situ</i> air quality assessment in closed environments: A gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry applicability study.","authors":"Pedro Catalão Moura, Valentina Vassilenko","doi":"10.1177/14690667231187502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14690667231187502","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Contemporary life is mostly spent in indoor spaces like private houses, workplaces, vehicles and public facilities. Nonetheless, the air quality in these closed environments is often poor which leads to people being exposed to a vast range of toxic and hazardous compounds. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are among the main factors responsible for the lack of air quality in closed spaces and, in addition, some of them are particularly hazardous to the human organism. Considering this fact, we conducted daily <i>in situ</i> air analyses over 1 year using a gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (GC-IMS) device in an indoor location. The obtained results show that 10 VOCs were consistently present in the indoor air throughout the entire year, making them particularly important for controlling air quality. All of these compounds were successfully identified, namely acetic acid, acetone, benzene, butanol, ethanol, isobutanol, propanoic acid, propanol, 2-propanol and tert-butyl methyl ether. The behaviour of the total VOCs (tVOCs) intensity during the period of analysis and the relative variation between consecutive months were studied. It was observed that the overall trend of tVOCs closely mirrored the variation of air temperature throughout the year suggesting their strong correlation. The results obtained from this study demonstrate the high quality and relevance of the data, highlighting the suitability of GC-IMS for <i>in situ</i> long-term air quality assessment in indoor environments and, consequently, for identifying potential health risks for the human organism in both short-term and long-term exposure scenarios.</p>","PeriodicalId":12007,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Mass Spectrometry","volume":"29 4","pages":"231-239"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10466997/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10498782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/14690667231170709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14690667231170709","url":null,"abstract":"Publication Note Due to an administrative error the article, ‘Mass spectrometric detection of ion pairs containing rigid copper clusters and weakly coordinating counter ions using liquid injection field desorption/ionisation’ by Julia Taubert, Matthias Vogt, and Robert Langer, intended for publication in the Special Issue ‘Liquid Injection Field Desorption Ionization (LIFDI) Mass Spectrometry (MS)’, was inadvertently missed to be included in the issue.","PeriodicalId":12007,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Mass Spectrometry","volume":"29 3","pages":"207"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10330966/pdf/10.1177_14690667231170709.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10146505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}