Biomedical subjects

Dan Bylund

Publications and source records attributed to Dan Bylund.

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PubMed2006

Relating chromatographic retention and electrophoretic mobility to the ion distribution within electrosprayed droplets.

Ions that are observed in a mass spectrum obtained with electrospray mass spectrometry can be assumed to originate preferentially from ions that have a high distribution to the surface of the charged droplets. In this study, a relation between chromatographic retention and electrophoretic mobility to the ion distribution (derived from measured signal intensities in mass spectra and electrospray current) within electrosprayed droplets for a series of tetraalkylammonium ions, ranging from tetramethyl to tetrapentyl, is presented. Chromatographic retention in a reversed-phase system was taken as a measure of the analyte's surface activity, which was found to have a large influence on the ion distribution within electrosprayed droplets. In addition, different transport mechanisms such as electrophoretic migration and diffusion can influence the surface partitioning coefficient. The viscosity of the solvent system is affected by the methanol content and will influence both diffusion and ion mobility. However, as diffusion and ion mobility are proportional to each other, we have, in this study, chosen to focus on the ion mobility parameter. It was found that the influence of ion mobility relative to surface activity on the droplet surface partitioning of analyte ions decreases with increasing methanol content. This effect is most probably coupled to the decrease in droplet size caused by the decreased surface tension at increasing methanol content. The same observation was made upon increasing the ionic strength of the solvent system, which is also known to give rise to a decreased initial droplet size. The observed effect of ionic strength on the droplet surface partitioning of analyte ions could also be explained by the fact that at higher ionic strength, a larger number of ions are initially closer to the droplet surface and, thus, the contribution of ionic transport from the bulk liquid to the liquid/air surface interface (jet and droplet surface), attributable to migration or diffusion will decrease.

Chromatography, Liquid↗

PubMed2006

A generic stepwise optimization strategy for liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry methods.

The feasibility and advantages of using sophisticated chemometric tools in combination with the execution of thoroughly planned experiments to determine experimental conditions for optimal performance of an LC-ESI-MS/MS analysis is demonstrated. A stepwise strategy is proposed, which provides a controlled optimization procedure of the chromatographic quality (in terms of separation among the sample constituents) and maximizes the mass spectrometric signal of the selected product ions. Design of experiments (DOE) and response surface methodology are applied throughout the procedure. The stepwise approach has the advantage of dealing with the different optimization criteria separately, i.e. first ensuring sufficient chromatographic separation, then maximizing the amount of precursor ion entering the mass spectrometer, and finally generating high amounts of selected product ions. The experiments are performed on a linear ion trap mass spectrometer. Retention mapping using the band-tracking model is applied during LC development, which facilitates the optimization of segmented gradients. A set of different siderophores, strong iron chelates, is used as the model substances.

Journal Article↗

PubMed2006

Quantification of hydroxamate siderophores in soil solutions of podzolic soil profiles in Sweden.

Concentrations up to 2 and 12 nM of the hydroxamate siderophores ferrichrome and ferricrocin, respectively, were identified in soil solutions of podzolic forest soils at four sites in both northern and southern Sweden. No ferrichrysin was detected. As with the dissolved organic carbon and low molecular mass organic acids, the highest concentrations of the siderophores were found in the upper layers i.e. the mor layer, the eluvial and upper illuvial horizons. At the southern sites, the concentrations of ferrichrome and ferricrocin were both of similar magnitude and did not differ between the two sites. In contrast, soil solutions at the two northern sites contained more ferricrocin than ferrichrome; the ferricrocin concentrations were also higher at the northern sites than at the southern sites. Analyses were performed by high performance liquid chromatography with a porous graphitic carbon column on which ferrichrome, ferricrocin and ferrichrysin were separated. Detection by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) combined with on-line sample pre-concentration, by means of column-switching, enabled detection limits of 0.1-0.2 nM for ferrichrome, ferrichrysin and ferricrocin. The structural identities of the siderophores were further verified by MS/MS fragmentation. Fragmentation of ferrichrome, ferricrocin and ferrichrysin occurred mainly via peptide cleavage. The most intense fragments were typified by the loss of one of the three iron(III) chelating hydroxamate residues, i.e N(5)-acyl-N(5)-hydroxy ornithine.

Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid↗

PubMed2005

Multi-parameter investigation of tandem mass spectrometry in a linear ion trap using response surface modelling.

The feasibility of experimental design in combination with subsequent response surface modelling was illustrated for the prediction and interpretation of tandem mass spectrometric (MS/MS) fragmentation data using a linear quadrupole ion trap under various experimental conditions. The instrumental parameters included were (i) the pressure of the collision gas, (ii) the collision energy, (iii) the fill time of the linear ion trap and (iv) the scan rate. The spectral intensity and width of five fragment ions of the doubly charged neuro-active peptide bombesin were used for evaluation, and all experiments were performed so as to resemble the results obtained from a liquid chromatographic peak. The reported results show how fairly simple mathematical tools can be utilized successfully to describe fundamental mechanisms associated with multiple collisional activation and collision-induced dissociation processes without an extensively controlled experimental environment. Most beneficial, using the suggested approach, is the ability to study interaction (synergistic) effects between various parameters. As was realized from the results, many interaction effects are indeed significant. For example, the effect on the signal intensity of different collision gas pressure settings is strongly dependent on the settings of the other parameters. The described approach can easily be adopted for optimization purposes of any MS/MS experiment.

Journal Article↗

PubMed2004

A chemometric study of active parameters and their interaction effects in a nebulized sheath-liquid electrospray interface for capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry.

A chemometrics approach has been used for evaluating the effect of four experimental parameters when coupling capillary electrophoresis (CE) to electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Electrospray voltage, sheath-liquid flow rate, nebulizing gas flow rate, and spray needle position in respect to the MS orifice were varied according to a full factorial design. In addition to main effects, two interaction effects could be identified as significant when measuring the peak intensity of the analytes, from a sample mixture containing peptides and pharmaceuticals. The first interaction effects, between the nebulizing gas flow rate and the sheath-liquid flow rate, and the second interaction effect, between the nebulizing gas flow rate and the spray position, could further explain the impact that these variables have on the spray performance. The number of theoretical plates and the baseline noise were also measured. The sheath-liquid flow was found to significantly affect the separation efficiency, while the noise level mainly was controlled by the nebulizing gas flow. The same factorial design was also used for a CE capillary with lower internal diameter (ID) and the effects of the same variables were compared on those capillaries using equal injection volume for both capillaries. Similar trends were obtained in both capillaries but capillary ID was shown to be a significant variable when evaluating both capillaries in a single model. It was found that a capillary with 25 microm ID provided improved CE-MS performance over than corresponding 50 microm ID capillary. Enhanced sensitivity was obtained using the narrow-bore capillary, and at lower sheath-liquid flow rate the 25 microm ID capillary also gave rise to more efficient peaks.

Electrophoresis, Capillary↗

PubMed2003

Analysis of phosphatidylcholine and sphingomyelin molecular species from brain extracts using capillary liquid chromatography electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.

One feature of complex lipids is that many subtypes of these molecules exist as a diverse mixture in a biological sample. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of these closely related molecules require sensitive and specific analytical methods to detect intact phospholipids (PL) and sphingomyelin (SM) species and to differentiate between them. Conventional analytical methods require laborious procedures including separation by column, argentation thin-layer chromatography or liquid chromatography (LC) after pre- or post-column derivatization. In the present work, a method based on reversed phase capillary LC coupled on-line to electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (LC/ESI/MS) has been developed to gather tools for lipidomic studies, i.e. the profiling of complex mixtures of lipids in small amounts of various cells and tissues. The LC/MS system used consisted of an LC pump in an isocratic elution, a reversed phase capillary column and a single quadrupole mass spectrometer operated in the positive ion mode. A successful separation of phosphatidylcholine (PC) and SM molecular species was obtained with a minimum detectable quantity (MDQ) in the low fmol range injected on column. The method was applied to human brain extracts. Furthermore, the extraction efficiencies of the traditional Folch method and pressurized fluid extraction (PFE) were compared using the human brain. It was found that the intensity of the PC and SM molecular species extracted by PFE is two times that of Folch.

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PubMed2003

Miniaturized on-line proteolysis-capillary liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for peptide mapping of lactate dehydrogenase.

In this study, methodology was developed for on-line and miniaturized enzymatic digestion with liquid chromatographic (LC) separation and mass spectrometric (MS) detection. A packed capillary LC-MS system was combined with on-line trypsin cleavage of a model protein, lactate dehydrogenase, to provide an efficient system for peptide mapping. The protein was injected onto an enzymatic capillary reactor and the resulting peptides were efficiently trapped on a capillary trapping column. Different trapping columns were evaluated to achieve a high binding capacity for the peptides generated in the enzyme reactor. The peptides were further eluted from the pre-column and separated on an analytical capillary column by a buffer more suitable for the following an electrospray ionisation (ESI) MS process. An important aspect of the on-line approach was the desalting of peptides performed in the trapping column to avoid detrimental signal suppression in the ESI process. The developed on-line system was finally compared to a classical digestion in solution, with reference to peptide sequence coverage and sensitivity. It was shown that the on-line system gave more than 100% higher peptide sequence coverage than traditional digestion methods.

Animals↗

PubMed2003

Classification of lactate dehydrogenase of different origin by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and multivariate analysis.

A method intended to serve as a multivariate quality control tool in the production of pharmaceutical proteins is presented. The method is based on multivariate analysis of peptide maps generated with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) from different species and tissues were used as model compounds in the study. The proteins were digested with Endoproteinase Lys-C before the LC-MS analysis. After data pretreatment of the peptide maps, successful classification of the LDHs were obtained by discriminant analysis with partial least squares regression and artificial neural networks. Further, principal component analysis was applied to visualize the relationships between the samples.

Animals↗

PubMed2002

Chromatographic alignment by warping and dynamic programming as a pre-processing tool for PARAFAC modelling of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry data.

Solutes analysed with LC-MS are characterised by their retention times and mass spectra, and quantified by the intensities measured. This highly selective information can be extracted by multiway modelling. However, for full use and interpretability it is necessary that the assumptions made for the model are valid. For PARAFAC modelling, the assumption is a trilinear data structure. With LC-MS, several factors, e.g. non-linear detector response and ionisation suppression may introduce deviations from trilinearity. The single largest problem, however, is the retention time shifts not related to the true sample variations. In this paper, a time warping algorithm for alignment of LC-MS data in the chromatographic direction has been examined. Several refinements have been implemented and the features are demonstrated for both simulated and real data. With moderate time shifts present in the data, pre-processing with this algorithm yields approximately trilinear data for which reasonable models can be made.

Chromatography, Liquid↗