a quantitative analysis method for fudosteine in human serum by high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (hplc-esi/ms/ms) was established, which shows high sensitivity and selectivity. the mobile phase composition was 75% 20 mm acetic acid and 25% acetonitril, which was pumped at a flow rate of 0.40 ml/min. the overall chromatographic run time was ...

INTRODUCTION High-dose methotrexate (MTX) is used in the treatment of proliferative diseases such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Therapeutic drug monitoring of plasma MTX is important to monitor efficacy and adverse events. The authors aimed to develop a liquid chromatography, electrospray ionization, tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS)-based method to determine MTX in plasma for therapeu...

A new liquid chromatography (LC)-negative ion electrospray ionization (ESI(-))-tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) method with post-column addition of ammonia in methanol has been developed for the analysis of acid herbicides: 2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid, 4-chloro-o-tolyloxyacetic acid, 2-(2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxy)butyric acid, mecoprop, dichlorprop, 4-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy) butyric acid, 2,4,5...

■ ■ CSH130 C18 is QC tested with a tryptic digest of cytochrome c IN T RODUC T ION Peptide mapping of a biopharmaceutical, when employed for quality control, has traditionally involved detection by UV absorbance. However, to characterize the species in a peptide map, LC separations often must be coupled with ESI-MS. Mobile phases containing trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) have been almost exclusivel...

Analysis of the N-glycosylation pattern on antibodies is described using complementary mass spectrometric strategies based on both, top-down ESI-UHR-TOF and bottom-up LC-MALDI-TOF/TOF. Fast LC-ESI-UHR-TOF analysis, performed on the Bruker maXisTM, provides highresolution, high-mass accuracy (confident low ppm) data for both, intact antibodies and released antibody heavy chains allowing a rapid ...

The use of Accurate-Mass Q-TOF LC/MS and MS/MS, in both positive and negative electrospray ionization (ESI) modes, was evaluated for the identification of sucralose in water. Response and fragmentation pathways were investigated. Sucralose responded well using Q-TOF LC/MS in either the positive or negative ion ESI modes. The overall signal intensity obtained in positive ion mode was approximate...

We describe the first implementation of negative electron-transfer dissociation (NETD) on a hybrid ion trap-orbitrap mass spectrometer and its application to high-throughput sequencing of peptide anions. NETD, coupled with high pH separations, negative electrospray ionization (ESI), and an NETD compatible version of OMSSA, is part of a complete workflow that includes the formation, interrogatio...

Phase II metabolites, or conjugates, are highly polar, non-volatile and thermolabile compounds that need to be analysed in biological matrices such as urine, bile and plasma. Liquid chromatography (LC) and capillary electrophoresis (CE) are proven techniques for the analysis of compounds of this kind, but the standard detectors in LC and CE lack sensitivity and especially specificity. Coupling ...

Here, approaches that allow disclosure of the information hidden inside and outside of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DE) are described. Experimental identification methods, such as mass spectrometry of high resolution and sensitivity (MALDI-TOF MS and ESI LC-MS/MS) and immunodetection (Western and Far-Western) in combination with bioinformatics (collection of all information about prote...