Analysis of glutathione adducts of patulin by means of liquid chromatography (HPLC) with biochemical detection (BCD) and electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS)

Anal Bioanal Chem. 2009 Jul;394(5):1361-73. doi: 10.1007/s00216-009-2765-1. Epub 2009 Apr 24.

Abstract

A novel method for the identification of glutathione/electrophile adducts that are inhibiting glutathione-S-transferase (GST) activity was developed and applied for the analysis of the mycotoxin patulin. The method is based on high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled to a continuous-flow enzyme reactor serving as biochemical detector (BCD) in parallel to electrospray mass spectrometric detection (ESI-MS). This HPLC-BCD technique combines a separation step and the detection of the inhibition and is therefore ideally suited for the analysis of the activity of single patulin/glutathione adducts within a complex mixture of adducts. Two out of at least 15 detected patulin-glutathione adducts showed strong GST inhibition. In ESI-MS, the inhibitory active adducts were characterized by [M + H]+ ions with m/z 462.1138 and m/z 741.2011, respectively. They could be identified as a dihydropyranone adduct containing one molecule glutathione and a ketohexanoic acid bearing two glutathione molecules.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / instrumentation
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / methods*
  • Female
  • Glutathione / analysis*
  • Glutathione / chemistry
  • Molecular Structure
  • Patulin / analysis*
  • Patulin / chemistry
  • Rats
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / instrumentation
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / methods*
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry / instrumentation
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry / methods*

Substances

  • Patulin
  • Glutathione