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Asare SO, Hoskins JN, Blessing RA, Hertzler RL. Mass spectrometry based fragmentation patterns of nitrosamine compounds. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 2022; 36:e9261. [PMID: 35088453 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.9261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Revised: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
RATIONALE Nitrosamines are a class of mutagenic substances that can display high carcinogenic potential. New chemical entities may have the potential to form unique nitrosamines specific to the drug substance. It is therefore essential to understand the gas-phase fragmentation behavior of nitrosamine compounds to enable the development of analytical methods to characterize novel nitrosamine compounds. METHODS The gas-phase fragmentation behavior of eight model nitrosamine compounds representing the common substructures seen in many small molecule pharmaceutical compounds was studied with positive electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS). The fragmentation patterns of these compounds under various collision parameters available in commercially available mass spectrometers were studied. RESULTS Protonated nitrosamine compounds produced diagnostic fragment ions upon MS/MS. Three primary structure-dependent fragmentation pathways were observed. The first pathway involves the loss of 30 Da which corresponds to the loss of the NO radical from the protonated nitrosamine compound (Group 1). The second and third fragmentation pathways, which have not been reported for nitrosamine compounds, proceed via the loss of H2 O from the protonated nitrosamine compound (Group 2), and elimination and a loss of 46 Da (loss of NH2 NO) from the nitrosamine compound (Group 3). CONCLUSIONS Results presented in this work provide an overview of the gas-phase fragmentation patterns of nitrosamine compounds and may be useful in identifying novel nitrosamine compounds in complex matrices.
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- Shardrack O Asare
- Analytical Research and Development, AbbVie, 1 N. Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, USA
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- Analytical Research and Development, AbbVie, 1 N. Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, USA
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- Analytical Research and Development, AbbVie, 1 N. Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, USA
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- Analytical Research and Development, AbbVie, 1 N. Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, USA
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Asare SO, Dean KR, Lynn BC. The study of the chromatographic behavior and a mass spectrometric approach to differentiating the diastereomer pair of the β-O-4 lignin dimer series. Anal Bioanal Chem 2021; 413:4037-4048. [PMID: 33934193 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-021-03358-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Revised: 04/13/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Lignin and lignans are natural products found in plant cell walls. Lignin research has historically focused on lignin degradation techniques in the hope of converting lignin into useful aromatic carbon feedstocks. In contrast, investigations of lignans existing as natural product dimers, have been focused on thier interesting biological activities. Many lignan compounds are chemically identical to dimers derived from lignin, and both lignin and lignan dimers can possess multiple chiral centers leading to observations of diastereomer pairs where one diastereomer exhibits the bulk of the activity. For example, the G-(β-O-4')-G dimer was reported to have a pro-angiogenic activity with one diastereomer of the pair showing enhanced pro-angiogenic activity. Traditional analytical techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) can differentiate the diastereomer pairs of β-O-4 compounds; however, isolation of a pure sample is often required for analysis. This work was aimed at exploring the potential use of tandem mass spectrometry to differentiate diastereomer pairs in the β-O-4 dimer series. Each diastereomer pair in the nine-dimer series was separated by HPLC and interrogated by tandem mass spectrometry. To understand the chromatographic behavior of the diastereomer pair in the β-O-4 dimer series, three commercially available reverse phase HPLC columns were evaluated. A temperature programming experiment using water/acetonitrile isocratic elution showed that the chromatographic retention mechanism of these diastereomers was hydrophobically driven with analytes having more methoxy groups exhibiting larger ΔH0 and higher octanol-water partition coefficient values. Tandem mass spectrometry performed on each of the diastereomers produced fragment ions having different ion abundances. A mechanistic study based on the ion abundance of "sequence-specific ions" and "-48 ions" was used to assign a configuration to each of the pairs of diastereomers in the nine-dimer series.
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- Shardrack O Asare
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA.,Abbvie Inc., 1 N. Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA.
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Wilders AM, Henle J, Haibach MC, Swiatowiec R, Bien J, Henry RF, Asare SO, Wall AL, Shekhar S. Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Hindered, Electron-Deficient Anilines with Bulky (Hetero)aryl Halides Using Biaryl Phosphorinane Ligands. ACS Catal 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c04280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Alison M. Wilders
- Process Research and Development, AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States
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- Process Research and Development, AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States
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- Process Research and Development, AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States
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- Process Research and Development, AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States
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- Process Research and Development, AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States
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- Process Research and Development, AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States
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- Analytical Research and Development, AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States
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- Analytical Research and Development, AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States
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- Process Research and Development, AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States
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Moradipour M, Chase EK, Khan MA, Asare SO, Lynn BC, Rankin SE, Knutson BL. Interaction of lignin-derived dimer and eugenol-functionalized silica nanoparticles with supported lipid bilayers. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2020; 191:111028. [PMID: 32305621 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2020.111028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2019] [Revised: 04/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The potential to impart surfaces with specific lignin-like properties (i.e. resistance to microbes) remains relatively unexplored due to the lack of well-defined lignin-derived small molecules and corresponding surface functionalization strategies. Here, allyl-modified guaiacyl β-O-4 eugenol (G-eug) lignin-derived dimer is synthesized and attached to mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNPs) via click chemistry. The ability of G-eug lignin-dimer functionalized particles to interact with and disrupt synthetic lipid bilayers is compared to that of eugenol, a known natural antimicrobial. Spherical MSNPs (∼150 nm diameter with 4.5 nm pores) were synthesized using surfactant templating. Post-synthesis thiol (SH) attachment was performed using (3-mercaptopropyl) trimethoxysilane and quantified by Ellman's test. The resultant SH-MSNPs were conjugated with the G-eug dimers or eugenol by a thiol-ene reaction under ultraviolet light in the presence of a photo initiator. From thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), attachment densities of approximately 0.22 mmol eugenol/g particle and 0.13 mmol G-eug dimer/g particle were achieved. The interaction of the functionalized MSNPs with a phospholipid bilayers of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (representing model cell membranes) supported on gold surface was measured using Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation monitoring (QCM-D). Eugenol-grafted MSNPs in PBS (up to 1 mg/mL) associated with the bilayer and increased the mass adsorbed on the QCM-D sensor. In contrast, MSNPs functionalized with G-eug dimer show qualitatively different behavior, with more uptake and evidence of bilayer disruption at and above a particle concentration of 0.5 mg/mL. These results suggest that bio-inspired materials with conjugated lignin-derived small molecules can serve as a platform for novel antimicrobial coatings and therapeutic carriers.
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- Mahsa Moradipour
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States.
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States.
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Tong X, Moradipour M, Novak B, Kamali P, Asare SO, Knutson BL, Rankin SE, Lynn BC, Moldovan D. Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of the Effects of Lignin Dimers on the Gel-to-Fluid Phase Transition in DPPC Bilayers. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:8247-8260. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b05525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Xinjie Tong
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States
- Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States
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Asare SO, Lynn BC. A comparative study of the electrospray ionization response of β-O-4' lignin model compounds. J Mass Spectrom 2019; 54:540-548. [PMID: 31009548 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Revised: 03/14/2019] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry has recently become the technique of choice for rapid characterization of lignin degradation products. However, the fundamental question of the relationship between lignin structure and ionization efficiency has not been explored. In this work, we studied the electrospray ionization response of five structurally similar β-O-4' model lignin compounds using lithium cationization in the positive electrospray ionization mode. The studied compounds have the same β-O-4' backbone structure but differ at the α-position by increasing nonpolar side chains. Our results show a correlation between the ionization response and the length of the nonpolar side chain, with analytes having the longest side chain recording the highest ESI response in the full scan mode. Factors affecting the formation of analyte ions and analyte cluster ions were also studied. We have shown for the first time in this work that the introduction of a nonpolar group onto a β-O-4' lignin compound can increase the lithium cationization ESI response in the positive ion mode.
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- Shardrack O Asare
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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Bowman AS, Asare SO, Lynn BC. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis for characterization of lignin oligomers using cationization techniques and 2,5-dihydroxyacetophenone (DHAP) matrix. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 2019; 33:811-819. [PMID: 30719787 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.8406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Revised: 01/29/2019] [Accepted: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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RATIONALE Effective analytical techniques are needed to characterize lignin products for the generation of renewable carbon sources. Application of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) in lignin analysis is limited because of poor ionization efficiency. In this study, we explored the potential of cationization along with a 2,5-dihydroxyacetophenone (DHAP) matrix to characterize model lignin oligomers. METHODS Synthesized lignin oligomers were analyzed using the developed MALDI method. Two matrix systems, DHAP and α-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA), and three cations (lithium, sodium, silver) were evaluated using a Bruker UltraFlextreme time-of-flight mass spectrometer. Instrumental parameters, cation concentration, matrix, sample concentrations, and sample spotting protocols were optimized for improved results. RESULTS The DHAP/Li+ combination was effective for dimer analysis as lithium adducts. Spectra from DHP and ferric chloride oligomers showed improved signal intensities up to decamers (m/z 1823 for the FeCl3 system) and provided insights into differences in the oligomerization mechanism. Spectra from a mixed DHP oligomer system containing H, G, and S units showed contributions from all monolignols within an oligomer level (e.g. tetramer level). CONCLUSIONS The DHAP/Li+ method presented in this work shows promise to be an effective analytical tool for lignin analysis by MALDI and may provide a tool to assess lignin break-down efforts facilitating renewable products from lignin.
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- Amber S Bowman
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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Asare SO, Huang F, Lynn BC. Characterization and sequencing of lithium cationized β-O-4 lignin oligomers using higher-energy collisional dissociation mass spectrometry. Anal Chim Acta 2019; 1047:104-114. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2018.09.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2018] [Revised: 09/05/2018] [Accepted: 09/29/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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