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Development and Validation of GC-MS Methods for the Comprehensive Analysis of Amino Acids in Plasma and Urine and Applications to the HELLP Syndrome and Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: Evidence of Altered Methylation, Transamidination, and Arginase Activity

Development and Validation of GC-MS Methods for the Comprehensive Analysis of Amino Acids in Plasma and Urine and Applications to the HELLP Syndrome and Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: Evidence of Altered Methylation, Transamidination, and Arginase Activity

Erik Hanff, Stephan Ruben, Martin Kreuzer, Alexander Bollenbach, Arslan Arinc Kayacelebi, Anibh Martin Das, Frauke von Versen-Höynck, Constantin von Kaisenberg, Dieter Haffner, Stefan Ückert, Dimitrios Tsikas

Amino Acids. 2019 Mar;51(3):529-547.

PMID: 30604095

Abstract:

We developed and validated gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) methods for the simultaneous measurement of amino acids and their metabolites in 10-µL aliquots of human plasma and urine. De novo synthesized trideutero-methyl esters were used as internal standards. Plasma proteins were precipitated by acidified methanol and removed by centrifugation. Supernatants and native urine were evaporated to dryness. Amino acids were first esterified using 2 M HCl in methanol and then amidated using pentafluoropropionic anhydride for electron-capture negative-ion chemical ionization. Time programmes were used for the gas chromatograph oven and the selected-ion monitoring of specific anions. The GC-MS methods were applied in clinical studies on the HELLP syndrome and pediatric kidney transplantation (KTx) focusing on L-arginine-related pathways. We found lower sarcosine (N-methylglycine) and higher asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) plasma concentrations in HELLP syndrome women (n = 7) compared to healthy pregnant women (n = 5) indicating altered methylation. In plasma of pediatric KTx patients, lower guanidinoacetate and homoarginine concentrations were found in plasma but not in urine samples of patients treated with standard mycophenolate mofetil-based immunosuppression (MMF; n = 22) in comparison to matched patients treated with MMF-free immunosuppression (n = 22). On average, the global arginine bioavailability ratio was by about 40% lower in the MMF group compared to the EVR group (P = 0.004). Mycophenolate, the major pharmacologically active metabolite of MMF, is likely to inhibit the arginine:glycine amidinotransferase (AGAT), and to enhance arginase activity in leukocytes and other types of cell of MMF-treated children.

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AP356423	Pentafluoropropionic anhydride		356-42-3	Price

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