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TALANTA
Volume 60, Issue 6, Pages 1229-1238Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0039-9140(03)00232-7
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L-cysteine; L-homocysteine; cysteinylglycine; 2-methylcysteine; D-penicillamine; 1,1 '-thiocarbonyldiimidazole
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We present a highly selective and sensitive method for the determination of cysteine (Cys) and related aminothiols that play important roles in health and disease. The key step in the analysis is treatment with 1,1'-thiocarbonyldiimidazole (TCDI) that rapidly and quantitatively reacts with both the amino and thiol groups to form stable cyclic dithiocarbamates with intense UV absorption. Cys, homocysteine (hCys), and cysteinylglycine in plasma (75 mul), urine (100 mul), or cerebrospinal fluid (100-500 mul) were determined by separating and measuring their cyclic derivatives by a high performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) connected to a UV detector. The chromatograms obtained using TCDI contained fewer and better-resolved peaks than those produced by less selective reagents used previously. Using chemically similar 2-methylcysteine as the internal standard, high repeatability (variation of less than 5%) and adequate sensitivity to detect small increments (10-20%) in the concentrations of cysteinylglycine and hCys were achieved. The HPLC method can also be modified to measure D-penicillamine (greater than 0.8 muM) in plasma (50 mul) providing a potential method to monitor plasma levels of this drug in patients. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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