Analysis of Glycated and Ascorbylated Proteins by Gas Chromatography−Mass Spectrometry
摘要:
Proteins or poly-L-lysine which were incubated in the presence of ascorbic acid dehydroascorbic acid (ascorbylation), or various sugars (glycation) were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) To also detect more labile reaction products, the Maillard modified proteins or poly-L-lysine were enzymatically hydrolyzed and reacted with N-methyl N-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl) trifluoroacetamide to form the N(O)-tert-butyldimethylsilyl (tBDMS) derivatives prior to GC analysis Under these conditions, the known Maillard products N-epsilon-(carboxymethyl)lysine (1), oxalic acid mono N-epsilon lysinylamide (2) and N-epsilon-(carboxyethyl)lysine (3) could be simultaneously detected and quantified in glycated and ascorbylated proteins Additionally, N-epsilon (1-carboxy 3 hydroxypropyl)-L-lysine (4) was identified for the first time as a Maillard product of proteins Under the conditions applied here, 4 was found only in ascorbylated proteins or Poly L lysine, but not in glycated proteins Maillard modified poly-L-lysine was further subjected to high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis after enzymatic hydrolysis and formation of the phenyl isothiocyanate derivatized amino acids Using this method, N-epsilon-formyl-L-lysine (5), which cannot be distinguished from 2 by GC-MS analysis, was identified for the first time as a glycation product Compound 5 is mainly formed from ribose, lactose and fructose The indicated Maillard products were quantified in beta lactoglobulin (GC-MS) or poly-L lysine (HPLC) which were glycated or ascorbylated using different precursors.