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- Title
MALDI Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Nonderivatized Steroids Using Cyclodextrin-supported 2,5-Dihydroxybenzoic Acid as Matrix.
- Authors
Jeongjin Son; Sangwon Cha
- Abstract
Sex hormones are important metabolites in vertebrates' development and reproduction. For rapid screening sex hormones, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry (MS) is one of the promising analytical platforms, but MALDI MS faces many challenges in detecting steroids such as low ionization efficiency and matrix background interference. One potential strategy to overcome matrix interference in the low m/z region is using a cyclodextrin (CD)-supported matrix for steroid analysis since CD-supported matrixes are known to effectively suppress matrix-related ion signals. In this study, we aimed to find the optimal CD-supported matrix for the analysis of the nonderivatized sex steroids. Our results showed that the αCD-supported 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHB) matrix efficiently ionized all three major classes of sex hormones, estrogens, androgens, and progestagens, with low or no matrix background and also with high sensitivity. In addition, the αCD-supported DHB matrix mainly generated molecular ions or protonated ions of sex hormones, and this enabled us to obtain information-rich tandem mass spectra which potentially lead to unambiguous identification of steroid species from complex metabolite mixtures.
- Subjects
SEX hormones; METABOLITES; MATRIX-assisted laser desorption-ionization research; MASS spectrometry; STEROIDS
- Publication
Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, 2014, Vol 35, Issue 5, p1408
- ISSN
0253-2964
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5012/bkcs.2014.35.5.1409