A novel chiral thiol reagent for automated precolumn derivatization and high-performance liquid chromatographic enantioseparation of amino acids and its application to the aspartate racemase assay |
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Authors: | Nimura Noriyuki Fujiwara Takako Watanabe Aya Sekine Masae Furuchi Takemitsu Yohda Masafumi Yamagishi Akihiko Oshima Tairo Homma Hiroshi |
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Institution: | School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University, 5-9-1 Shirokane, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan. |
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Abstract: | A novel optically active thiol compound, N-(tert-butylthiocarbamoyl)-L-cysteine ethyl ester (BTCC), is synthesized as a chiral derivatization reagent. This compound and o-phthalaldehyde react with amino acid enantiomers to produce fluorescent diastereomers that are readily separable on a reverse-phase column by HPLC. Enantioseparation of acidic amino acids in particular is markedly improved using BTCC. In this study, the HPLC method for enantioseparation with the novel compound is applied to the aspartate (Asp) racemase assay. Derivatized D-Asp is eluted before the L-Asp derivative. Consequently, a small amount of D-Asp produced by the activity of racemase on a large quantity of L-Asp substrate may be quantified accurately, even at very low activity. Since the derivatization reaction proceeds rapidly at room temperature, a fully automated system is established for derivatization and sample injection. The automated method is practical and successfully applied to the archaeal Asp racemase assay. We presume that the procedure is additionally applicable to the enantioseparation of other amino acids, amino alcohols, and catecholamines. |
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Keywords: | d-Aspartate" target="_blank">d-Aspartate d-Amino acid" target="_blank">d-Amino acid Aspartate racemase Enantioseparation Chiral derivatization Fluorometric detection o-Phthalaldehyde |
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