期刊
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
卷 879, 期 19, 页码 1502-1506出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2011.03.039
关键词
Methylmalonic acid; Vitamin B12 status; UPLC; LC-MS/MS; Nutrition
资金
- USDA [5306-5152-006-00D, 5306-5152-007-00D, 5306-51530-016-00D, 5306-51530-019-00D]
- Bristol-Meyers Squibb Company [010262]
Methylmalonic acid (MMA) is a metabolic intermediate transformed to succinic acid (SA) by a vitamin B-12-dependent catalytic step, and is broadly used as a clinical biomarker of functional vitamin B12 status. However, reported methods use between 100 and 1000 mu L of serum or plasma making them sub-optimal for sample-limited studies, including those with neonates and infants. LC-MS/MS based protocols to measure MMA as n-butyl esters in the presence of tri-deuterated MMA (MMA-d(3)) were modified for use with 25 mu L of human serum by scaling down sample processing volumes and analysis by UPLC-MS/MS. Plasma-based calibration solutions were found to be unnecessary, and chromatographic resolution and peak shape of SA and MMA was optimized in <4 min with isocratic 53:47 methanol/1.67 mM (pH 6.5) ammonium formate. Additionally, 1-cyclohexyl-urido-3-dodecanoic acid (CUDA) was included as internal standard allowing direct assessment of MMA recovery. Sample concentrations in the low normal range produced a signal:noise of >100:1. MMA intra- and inter-assay variability was under 10%. MMA-d(3) surrogate recovery averaged 93 +/- 14%. MMA stability exceeded three years in frozen samples and was unaffected by up to five freeze/thaw cycles. In conclusion, we report that methylmalonic acid can be measured with 25 mu L. of serum using water based standards. The assay signal:noise per concentration indicates that the method could perform as implemented with as little as 5 mu L, of serum. The reported method is applicable for studies of functional B12 status in sample limited experiments including investigations of nutritional status in neonates and in studies where low normal MMA levels are expected. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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