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Sulfur is one of the major impurity elements in copper. Previously applied methods for the quantification of sulfur in copper and other pure metals revealed a lack of traceability and showed inconsistent result. Therefore, in this study a procedure was developed for the quantification of total sulfur in copper at low concentration levels using inductively coupled plasma-isotope dilution mass spectrometry (ICP-IDMS). A major challenge for the quantification of sulfur in copper (alloyed/unalloyed) by ICPMS is the copper matrix itself, causing matrix effects and making an extensive cleaning (cones, extraction lens) necessary after measurements. Matschat et al investigated the analysis of high-purity metals (including copper) by high resolution ICP-MS and found that the copper matrix shows strong matrix effects on the sensitivity resulting from Cu deposition on the cones. Therefore, the major part of the copper matrix has to be separated, which was accomplished by adding ammonia which forms a complex with the copper while releasing the sulfur. This was followed by a chromatographic separation using a weak cation resin. After that the sulfur fraction was further purified by chromatographic means using an anion exchange method followed by a chelating resin.
The anion exchange resin (AG1X8), however, is selective to sulfate and sulfite but less-selective to sulfide. Therefore, when quantifying total sulfur in copper, the different species of sulfur need to be oxidized to sulfate prior to the sulfur-matrix separation on the AG1X8 resin in order to avoid any measurement bias. When applying the HPA oxidation with concentrated HNO3 and H2O2 a complete conversion from sulfide and sulfite to sulfate could be achieved. The recovery of all investigated sulfur species is quantitative within measurement uncertainties. The copper samples investigated in this study contain copper in the range of 0.85-0.99 kg·kg-1 and zinc from <10 to 300 g·kg-1. Approximately 0.10-0.25 g of these samples were used to perform the sulfur-copper separation. After applying the complete three stage separation procedure the mass fractions of both elements were significantly reduced to below 400 ng·g-1 for copper and below 50 ng·g-1 for zinc, respectively. The developed procedure shows high performance, especially concerning high efficiency in matrix removal (> 99.999%) while keeping the recovery of sulfur above 80%.
The procedure blank was determined by IDMS as well and yielded values for the individual IDMS measurement sequences ranging from 3 ng to 53 ng. The average of these individual procedure blanks (n=22) was calculated and yielded a total procedure blank of 14 ng sulphur with standard deviation of 12 ng. The limit of detection (LOD, blank+3SD) calculated on this basis was 0.20 µg·g-1 while the limit of quantification (LOQ, blank+10SD) was 0.54 µg·g-1, when considering a sample weight of 0.25 g.
The quantification of low sulfur contents (< 15 µg/g) by conventional IDMS is hindered by the very high Cu/S ratio, which clearly affects the separation in a negative way: The recovery of sulfur dropped to about 30 % for four replicates, while two further replicates even showed recoveries below 10%. To enable measurement without completely changing the separation procedure, an exact amount of sulfur was added prior to spiking, such that the sulfur mass fraction was shifted to the optimum working range of the separation procedure. Thus exact amounts of sulfur were added to enhance the mass fraction of sulfur from 15 µg·g-1 to 40 µg·g-1, then the IDMS analysis was performed as usual and finally the added sulfur amount was subtracted. The so obtained measurement result agreed well with the certified value within the uncertainties. The relative expanded measurement uncertainties for conventional IDMS are below 1%. When applying the modified IDMS procedure, where back-spike is added to the sample before spiking, the relative expanded measurement uncertainties are larger and up to 5%. With the presented sulfur-matrix procedure a working range from approximately 15 µg·g-1 to 1500 µg·g-1 can be achieved.
The developed procedure for the quantification of low sulfur amounts in copper has been validated here via three different routes: first an inter-laboratory comparison at highest metrological level, second a step-by-step validation by checking each single step of the procedure and third the setup of a complete uncertainty budget.
The procedure is sufficient to facilitate value assignment of total sulfur mass fraction in reference materials. Additionally, relative measurement uncertainties were calculated below 1 % and the measurement results are traceable to the SI, which is clearly demonstrated in this work. The procedure reported in this study is a new reference procedure for sulfur measurement in copper, well meeting the requirements of the two major purposes: the certification of reference materials and the assignment of reference values for inter-laboratory comparison.
Hepcidin-25 has attracted much attention ever since its discovery in 2001. It is widely recognized that this peptide hormone plays a major role in the regulation of iron levels in mammals and can reveal important clinical information about several iron-related disorders. However, the development of a reliable assay to quantify hepcidin proved to be problematic and serum hepcidin-25 concentrations determined by various assays differ substantially. Challenges arise in the MS analysis of hepcidin due to the “sticky” character of the peptide and the lack of suitable standards.
With the aim to tackle the current difficulties in hepcidin quantification and improve the status of this promising biomarker in the clinical field, we developed a rapid and robust analytical strategy for the quantification of hepcidin-25 in human samples based on HPLC-MS/MS (QqQ) as a reference method candidate to be implemented in routine laboratories. The novelty of the method is the use of amino- and fluoro-silanized autosampler vials to reduce hepcidin interaction to laboratory glassware surfaces. Furthermore, we have investigated two sample preparation strategies and two chromatographic separation conditions where the use of acidic mobile phases was compared with a novel approach involving solvents at high pH containing 0.1% of ammonia. Both methods were carefully validated and applied to clinical samples in an intra-laboratory comparison of two LC-MS/MS methods using the same hepcidin-25 calibrators with very good correlation of the results.
Imaging of elemental distributions in single cell assays as well as tissue sections can be performed by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). This powerful technique offers precise spatially resolved measurements at the trace and ultratrace level and has been established as an excellent tool to answer analytical, biological and biomedical questions. To date, imaging mass cytometry is already able to simultaneously detect up to 40 cellular targets due to conjugation of isotopically pure lanthanides to affinity binders, e.g. antibodies.
To further enhance the ability of multiparametric analysis to more than 100 analytes at once, we investigated lanthanide nanocrystals as new, highly sensitive metal tags for identification of targets in clinical cell assays and tissue samples. Multiparametric analysis will be possible by encoding the lanthanide composition of nanocrystals associated to the affinity binders. Nanocrystals showed remarkable potential for sensitive detection in MS due to high stability and signal amplification compared to e.g. polymer tags, carrying fewer metal atoms.
Synthesis of functionalized lanthanide nanocrystals for further bioconjugation was performed with high reproducibility and monodisperse size distribution. For proof of principle, the uptake and distribution of these nanocrystals within the monolayered cell line A549 were investigated by mapping the intensities at subcellular resolution using LA-ICP-MS. It could be shown, that the cells were efficiently labeled with the nanocrystals and mostly accumulate near the nucleus. Additionally, the bioconjugation of the nanocrystals to antibodies and particularly the preservation of the antibody specificity was investigated using Dot Blot experiments. All in all, the results imply high sensitivity and the possibility of multiparametric analysis by doting various lanthanides into the nanocrystals.
Zearalenone (ZEN) and its sulfate and glucoside conjugates have been detected in (a broad variety of) food and feed commodities1. Both conjugated derivatives are formed as part of fungal or plant secondary metabolism and thus, belong to the group of modified mycotoxins2. After consumption of contaminated foodstuff, the conjugates can be hydrolyzed by human intestinal microbiota leading to liberation of ZEN that implies an underestimation of the true ZEN exposure. In order to include ZEN conjugates in routine analysis, as well as for toxicological investigation reliable standards are needed.
The objective of the present study was to develop a simple and economic method for biosynthesis of ZEN conjugates. Preceding experiments on the biotransformation of ZEN by Rhizopus and Aspergillus species showed a mixed metabolite formation3. Therefore, these known ZEN conjugating fungal strains were screened for their potential to selectively synthesize the ZEN derivatives ZEN-14-sulfate (Z14S), ZEN-14-glucoside (Z14G) and ZEN-16-glucoside (Z16G). The screening was conducted by adding ZEN to liquid fungal cultures. Cultivation conditions and ZEN incubation time were varied. All media samples were analyzed for metabolite formation by HPLC-MS/MS. Z14S was exclusively formed by A. oryzae. Under optimized conditions a specific biosynthesis of Z14G by R. oryzae and Z16G by R. oligosporus was achieved. After liquid-liquid-extraction and preparative chromatographic cleanup 1H-NMR purities of ≥ 73% for Z14S, ≥ 82% for Z14G and ≥ 50% for Z16G were obtained. In addition, a consecutive biosynthesis was developed by first using Fusarium graminearum for ZEN biosynthesis on rice based liquid medium. After inactivation of Fusarium the subsequent conjugation reaction was conducted utilizing Aspergillus and Rhizopus species under the various optimized conditions.
In this study an easy and cost-efficient biosynthesis for Z14S, Z14G and Z16G was developed. The developed biosynthesis could be also used for other metabolites like ZEL conjugates. Our results of the in vitro screening indicate also the formation of a ZEL-glucoside and α ZEL-sulfate as major metabolites by R. oryzae. In sum, under optimized cultivation conditions fungi can be easily utilized for a targeted and stereospecific synthesis of ZEN conjugates.
Non-invasive Cereal Analysis by GC-MS detection of Trichodiene as a Volatile Mycotoxin Biomarker
(2018)
Due to the increasing consumption of cereals worldwide, the monitoring of growth, storage and processing is becoming more and more crucial. Particularly when stored, infested grains breed fungal clusters (“hot spots”) in which mycotoxins greatly exceed allowed maximum levels. Because of their unpredictable presence, current sample drawing and procedures for mycotoxin analysis represent a complex challenge for operators, involving invasive and cost intensive steps.
Therefore, new time- and labour-saving mycotoxin control methods including sampling and analysis steps are needed. A possible approach is the non-invasive analysis of the homogeneous gas phase above the crops, instead of analyzing random samples. However, this procedure requires microbial volatile organic compounds (MVOC´s) being released by the samples and representing the present mycotoxins. Previous investigations revealed trichodiene to be a precursor in trichothecenes biosynthesis – one of the largest mycotoxin groups with over 180 compounds. Due to its non-functionalized sesquiterpene structure, trichodiene has already been quantified using Headspace GC-MS methods (for instance]). Thereby, it can possibly be used as a biomarker for trichothecene contamination in foodstuff.
However, further investigations are necessary. The correlation between trichodiene concentration in the gas phase and trichothecenes mass fraction in the sample must be examined closely to draw conclusions about the exact trichothecene content within samples. Realizing this idea, would widely extend the applicability of trichodiene and enormously simplify trichothecene quantification. Hence, this first step of an ongoing study aims to develop a laboratory reference method using trichodiene as volatile biomarker to quantify trichothecenes in cereals. Static headspace and SPME-enrichment coupled to gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (GC-MS) were employed. In a second step, this reference method is intended to validate new approaches for fast on-site screening of trichodiene in cereals.
Online coupling of electrochemistry with mass spectrometry (EC/MS) is highly promising for prediction and simulation of metabolic processes of xenobiotics in living organisms. Less time and cost of analysis, matrix free detection, and automation make EC/MS-based metabolomics superior over traditional in-vivo and in-vitro methods. Furthermore, EC/MS has a special feature to identify reactive intermediates and reaction mechanisms.
The main objective of this work was to simulate biotransformation processes of pesticides by EC/MS and to elucidate the Transformation products (TPs). We have studied the oxidative phase I metabolism processes of selected pesticides by EC/MS or with liquid chromatography (EC/LC/MS) and compared the derived TPs with cytochrome based metabolites. The electrochemical TPs were produced by boron-doped diamond electrode, separated by LC, and detected by single quadrupole ESI-MS online. Structural identification of both electrochemical oxidation and liver microsome metabolites were based on accurate mass measurements by FT-ICR high-resolution mass spectrometry, isotopic pattern, MS/MS fragmentation, and Retention time alignments.
Main phase I oxidative metabolites by P-oxidation, N- & O- dealkylation, dechlorination, hydroxylation, and -OH- oxidation have been identified. Many targeted and untargeted metabolites have been identified by EC/(LC)/MS. Additionally, reactive species have been trapped online by biomolecules to study phase II conjugative reactions. Furthermore, we synthesized TP standards by EC/MS and applied them for pesticide's TPs occurrence investigation in foodstuf matrices.
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), have a high scientific and commercial impact due to their important antibacterial properties. However, there are serious concerns about their toxicological adverse effects as a consequence of their broad range of applications. Particularly, the impact of AgNPs on cells is not very well understood yet and there is a current demand to develop analytical methodologies providing information about the interaction and distribution of AgNPs at a single cell level. In this research, mass cytometry was used to introduce a new quantitative approach to study the uptake of AgNPs by individual THP-1 macrophages as a cell model system. Here, we show that this methodology provides not only multi-variate phenotypic information of individual cells but enables the quantitative analysis of AgNPs associated to cells in a single measurement by performing an external calibration using AgNPs suspension. Using differentiated THP-1 cells, we monitored and quantified the uptake of 50 nm AgNPs in a time and dose-dependent manner by mass cytometry. 7 to 120 AgNPs per cell (2 to 89 fg Ag/cell) were determined after exposure of differentiated THP-1 cells to low AgNPs concentrations of 0.1 and 1.0 mg L-1, at time points of 4 and 24 h. The results were validated by mass cytometric analysis of digested cells working as a conventional inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, ICP-MS. This study demonstrates the power of single cell analysis by mass cytometry even for low doses experiments as a new analytical tool for hitherto unaddressed questions in nanotoxicology.
Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) is gaining importance for bioimaging cytometry to answer analytical, biological and biomedical questions. High sensitivity and spatial resolution make it an excellent tool for imaging of metal and heteroelement distribution in single cells. Comparable to CyTOF imaging mass cytometry, metal coded antibodies can be used for multiparametric analysis as well as quantification.
In this project, nanocrystals are investigated as new highly sensitive metal tags for identification and quantification of biomarkers, like Alzheimer’s or breast cancer, in clinical cell assays and tissue samples. Of high significance is the simultaneous analysis of several biomarkers at once, which is possible by special coding of lanthanide tags on the biomarker associated antibody. Nanocrystals show potential for sensitive measurement in MS due to high stability and signal amplification compared to tags with fewer metal atoms. For proof of principle, synthesis and characterization of lanthanide doped nanocrystals was performed by a nanoPET pharma GmbH with great reproducibility and homogenous size. In A549 cell cultures, the uptake and distribution of these nanocrystals within the monolayered cells was investigated by LA-ICP-MS measurements using subcellular resolution. The nanocrystals showed high sensitivity and the possibility of multiparametric analysis by doting different lanthanides. Additionally, stability of the bioconjugation of the nanocrystals and target antibodies was investigated using Dot Blot experiments and LA-ICP-MS.
Sulfur is one of the major impurity elements in copper. Previously applied methods for the quantification of sulfur in copper and other pure metals revealed a lack of traceability and showed inconsistent result. Therefore, in this study a procedure was developed for the quantification of total sulfur in copper at low concentration levels using inductively coupled plasma-isotope dilution mass spectrometry (ICP-IDMS). A major challenge for the quantification of sulfur in copper (alloyed/unalloyed) by ICPMS is the copper matrix itself, causing matrix effects and making an extensive cleaning (cones, extraction lens) necessary after measurements. Matschat et al investigated the analysis of high-purity metals (including copper) by high resolution ICP-MS and found that the copper matrix shows strong matrix effects on the sensitivity resulting from Cu deposition on the cones. Therefore, the major part of the copper matrix has to be separated, which was accomplished by adding ammonia which forms a complex with the copper while releasing the sulfur. This was followed by a chromatographic separation using a weak cation resin. After that the sulfur fraction was further purified by chromatographic means using an anion exchange method followed by a chelating resin.
The anion exchange resin (AG1X8), however, is selective to sulfate and sulfite but less-selective to sulfide. Therefore, when quantifying total sulfur in copper, the different species of sulfur need to be oxidized to sulfate prior to the sulfur-matrix separation on the AG1X8 resin in order to avoid any measurement bias. When applying the HPA oxidation with concentrated HNO3 and H2O2 a complete conversion from sulfide and sulfite to sulfate could be achieved. The recovery of all investigated sulfur species is quantitative within measurement uncertainties. The copper samples investigated in this study contain copper in the range of 0.85-0.99 kg·kg-1 and zinc from <10 to 300 g·kg-1. Approximately 0.10-0.25 g of these samples were used to perform the sulfur-copper separation. After applying the complete three stage separation procedure the mass fractions of both elements were significantly reduced to below 400 ng·g-1 for copper and below 50 ng·g-1 for zinc, respectively. The developed procedure shows high performance, especially concerning high efficiency in matrix removal (> 99.999%) while keeping the recovery of sulfur above 80%.
The procedure blank was determined by IDMS as well and yielded values for the individual IDMS measurement sequences ranging from 3 ng to 53 ng. The average of these individual procedure blanks (n=22) was calculated and yielded a total procedure blank of 14 ng sulphur with standard deviation of 12 ng. The limit of detection (LOD, blank+3SD) calculated on this basis was 0.20 µg·g-1 while the limit of quantification (LOQ, blank+10SD) was 0.54 µg·g-1, when considering a sample weight of 0.25 g.
The quantification of low sulfur contents (< 15 µg/g) by conventional IDMS is hindered by the very high Cu/S ratio, which clearly affects the separation in a negative way: The recovery of sulfur dropped to about 30 % for four replicates, while two further replicates even showed recoveries below 10%. To enable measurement without completely changing the separation procedure, an exact amount of sulfur was added prior to spiking, such that the sulfur mass fraction was shifted to the optimum working range of the separation procedure. Thus exact amounts of sulfur were added to enhance the mass fraction of sulfur from 15 µg·g-1 to 40 µg·g-1, then the IDMS analysis was performed as usual and finally the added sulfur amount was subtracted. The so obtained measurement result agreed well with the certified value within the uncertainties. The relative expanded measurement uncertainties for conventional IDMS are below 1%. When applying the modified IDMS procedure, where back-spike is added to the sample before spiking, the relative expanded measurement uncertainties are larger and up to 5%. With the presented sulfur-matrix procedure a working range from approximately 15 µg·g-1 to 1500 µg·g-1 can be achieved.
The developed procedure for the quantification of low sulfur amounts in copper has been validated here via three different routes: first an inter-laboratory comparison at highest metrological level, second a step-by-step validation by checking each single step of the procedure and third the setup of a complete uncertainty budget.
The procedure is sufficient to facilitate value assignment of total sulfur mass fraction in reference materials. Additionally, relative measurement uncertainties were calculated below 1 % and the measurement results are traceable to the SI, which is clearly demonstrated in this work. The procedure reported in this study is a new reference procedure for sulfur measurement in copper, well meeting the requirements of the two major purposes: the certification of reference materials and the assignment of reference values for inter-laboratory comparison.