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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 878, Issue 29, Pages 2949-2958Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2010.08.043
Keywords
Polyglutamyl 5-methyltetrahydrofolate; Vegetable analysis; HPLC-MS/MS; gamma Glutamyl hydrolase inactivation
Funding
- NCI NIH HHS [P30 CA016058] Funding Source: Medline
- NCRR NIH HHS [UL1 RR025755] Funding Source: Medline
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Folate deficiency is a prevalent phenomenon worldwide especially in underprivileged countries Polyglutamyl 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5MTHF) species are the naturally occurring principle folate in store-bought vegetables Here we report a simple and complete extraction method for the determination of native polyglutamyl 5-methyltetrahydrofolate in vegetables using high performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometric detection (HPLC-MS/MS) Coarsely chopped samples (18 different vegetables) were steamed to inactivate glutamylase enzymes and liberate folate from binding proteins and extracted in a reducing buffer with C-13(5) 5MTHF stable isotope added as internal standard The polyglutamyl 5-methyltetrahydrofolate species were separated in 9 min on a C-18 column using a reversed phase system HPLC eluate was interfaced with a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer operated in electrospray positive mode The respective pseudomolecular cation of each polyglutamyl 5-methyltetrahydrofolate species was selected for fragmentation to a common daughter ion for detection We quantitated polyglutamyl 5-methyltetrahydrofolate in store-bought vegetables from families Brassicaceae Asteraceae and Amaranthaceae (Including mustard greens romaine lettuce and Swiss chard) of which most have not been quantitated previously Most vegetables from Asteraceae and those from Amaranthaceae contained similar amounts of monoglutamyl 5MTHF and polyglutamyl 5MTHF while Brassicaceae were dominated by polyglutamyls and endive species (Asteraceae) contained mainly monoglutamyl 5MTHF The precision of the method for the various polyglutamyl 5-methyltetrahydrofolate forms was 1-9% RSD recovery 84-91% limit of detection 64-658 fmol and limit of quantitation 193-1994 fmol Herein we describe a rapid sensitive and selective HPLC-MS/MS technique to quantitate polyglutamyl 5-methyltetrahydrofolate species This method may be suitable for analyzing the polyglutamyl 5-methyl tetrahydrofolate profile of inherent folates in a wide range of leafy green vegetables Published by Elsevier B V
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