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Liquid chromatographic fluorescence determination of amino acids in plasma and urine after derivatization with phanquinone
Author(s) -
Gatti Rita,
Gioia Maria Grazia
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
biomedical chromatography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.4
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1099-0801
pISSN - 0269-3879
DOI - 10.1002/bmc.917
Subject(s) - chemistry , derivatization , chromatography , reagent , amino acid , high performance liquid chromatography , sulfosalicylic acid , detection limit , fluorescence , organic chemistry , biochemistry , physics , quantum mechanics
Phanquinone (4,7‐phenanthroline‐5,6‐dione) has been investigated as a pre‐column derivatization fluorogenic reagent for liquid chromatographic determination of primary amino acids in biological samples. The derivatization reaction was carried out at 68°C both in the presence of aqueous phosphate buffer (pH 8) for 30 min and without buffer for 60 min to allow the determination of basic amino acids (Orn, Lys, Arg). The resulting derivatives were separated under reversed‐phase HPLC and detected at λ em = 460 nm with λ ex = 400 nm. The proposed method was validated and applied to the determination of a variety of amino acids directly in urine and after deproteinization with 5‐sulfosalicylic acid in plasma samples. The detection and quantitation limits were found in the range 10–450 and 35–1400 fmol, respectively . Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.