PMID- 36030735 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221110 LR - 20221110 IS - 1873-3573 (Electronic) IS - 0039-9140 (Linking) VI - 252 DP - 2023 Jan 15 TI - Coumarin-based derivatization reagent for LC-MS analysis of amino acids. PG - 123730 LID - S0039-9140(22)00526-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123730 [doi] AB - In this paper, we report about the application of a sensitive fluorescent derivatization reagent Coumarin151-N-Hydroxysuccinimidyl Carbamate (Cou151DSC) for amino compounds using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) compatible with ultraviolet (UV), fluorescence detector (FLD) and electrospray ionization - tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS)-positive mode. We optimized derivatization procedure and validated an analytical method to determine 24 amino acids in Kvass drink using Norvaline as an internal standard. Compared to 6-Aminoquinolyl-N-Hydroxysuccinimidyl Carbamate (6-AQC), the derivatization with Cou151 DSC is faster and milder, for 5 min at 40 degrees C instead of 15 min at 55 degrees C. The limit of quantitation (LOQ, pmol on column) for 21 amino acids in this work is lower 1.1-30.0 times than values obtained with 6-AQC. The derivatives have excitation wavelength at 355 nm and emission wavelength at 486 nm. Their MS/MS fragmentation behaviors were examined together with 23 other amino compounds. We found three possibilities to lose a neutral group which can be Coumarin 151 isocyanate Cou151NCO (255 Da), amine Coumarin 151 (229 Da) or urea Cou151CONH(2) (272 Da). The accuracy of the proposed method was within 83-107% with good relative standard deviations (RSDs) of equal or less than 6%. The recoveries were from 82 to 120% in four spiked concentrations, repeatability was between 0 and 14%. The intra- and inter-day precision are less than 13% and 18%, respectively. CI - Copyright (c) 2022. Published by Elsevier B.V. FAU - Bui, Nguyen Kim Ngan AU - Bui NKN AD - University of Tartu, Institute of Chemistry, Ravila 14a, Tartu 50411, Estonia. Electronic address: nguyen.bui@ut.ee. FAU - Selberg, Sigrid AU - Selberg S AD - University of Tartu, Institute of Chemistry, Ravila 14a, Tartu 50411, Estonia. FAU - Herodes, Koit AU - Herodes K AD - University of Tartu, Institute of Chemistry, Ravila 14a, Tartu 50411, Estonia. FAU - Leito, Ivo AU - Leito I AD - University of Tartu, Institute of Chemistry, Ravila 14a, Tartu 50411, Estonia. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220805 PL - Netherlands TA - Talanta JT - Talanta JID - 2984816R RN - 0 (Amino Acids) RN - 0 (Indicators and Reagents) RN - 0 (Amines) RN - 0 (Coumarins) SB - IM MH - Chromatography, Liquid/methods MH - *Amino Acids/analysis MH - *Tandem Mass Spectrometry MH - Indicators and Reagents MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/methods MH - Amines MH - Coumarins/analysis OTO - NOTNLM OT - Amino acids OT - Cou151DSC OT - Coumarin151-N-Hydroxysuccinimidyl Carbamate OT - Derivatization OT - ESI OT - LC-MS OT - MS/MS OT - Neutral loss COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2022/08/29 06:00 MHDA- 2022/11/11 06:00 CRDT- 2022/08/28 18:20 PHST- 2022/03/06 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/07/04 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/07/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/08/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/11/11 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/08/28 18:20 [entrez] AID - S0039-9140(22)00526-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123730 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Talanta. 2023 Jan 15;252:123730. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123730. Epub 2022 Aug 5.