Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 412, Issue 18, Pages 4423-4432Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02684-8
Keywords
High-resolution mass spectrometry; Human chorionic gonadotropin; Hydrophilic interaction chromatography; Intact protein; Reversed-phase liquid chromatography; Time-of-flight
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- Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (laboratoire d'excellence, Investissements d'avenir program) [ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL, ANR-10-LABX-31]
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In the present work, the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) hormone was characterized for the first time by hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) coupled to high-resolution (HR) quadrupole/time-of-flight (qTOF) mass spectrometry (MS) at the intact level. This heterodimeric protein, consisting of two subunits (hCG alpha and hCG beta), possesses 8 potential glycosylation sites leading to a high number of glycoforms and has a molecular weight of about 35 kDa. The HILIC conditions optimized in a first paper but using UV detection were applied here with MS for the analysis of two hCG-based drugs, a recombinant hCG and a hCG isolated from the urine of pregnant women. An amide column (150 x 2.1 mm, 2.6 mu m, 150 angstrom), a mobile phase composed of acetonitrile and water both containing 0.1% of trifluoroacetic acid, and a temperature of 60 degrees C were used. The gradient was from 85 to 40% ACN in 30 min. The use of TFA that had been shown to be necessary for the separation of glycoforms caused, as expected, an ion suppression effect in MS that was partially overcome by increasing the amount of protein injected (2 mu L at 1 mg mL(-1)) and reducing the detection m/z range (from 1500 to 300). These conditions allowed the detection of different glycoforms of hCG alpha. The performance of the HILIC-HRMS method was compared with that previously obtained in RPLC-HRMS in terms of the number of detected glycoforms, selectivity, and sensitivity. The complementarity and orthogonality of the HILIC and RP modes for the analysis of hCG at the intact level were demonstrated.
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