Journal
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1468, Issue -, Pages 109-115Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2016.09.031
Keywords
DNA quantification; LC/MS/MS; Isotope dilution mass spectrometry; Formic acid hydrolysis; Nucleobases
Funding
- Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan
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Liquid chromatography-isotope dilution mass spectrometry (LC-IDMS) with formic acid hydrolysis was established for the accurate quantification of DNA. The over-decomposition of nucleobases in formic acid hydrolysis was restricted by optimizing the reaction temperature and the reaction time, and accurately corrected by using deoxynucleotides (dNMPs) and isotope-labeled dNMPs as the calibrator and the internal standard, respectively. The present method could quantify lambda DNA with an expanded uncertainty of 4.6% using 10 fmol of lambda DNA. The analytical results obtained with the present method were validated by comparing with the results of phosphate-base quantification by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The results showed good agreement with each other. We conclude that the formic acid hydrolysis/LC-IDMS method can quantify lambda DNA accurately and is promising as the primary method for the certification of DNA as reference material. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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