CN114509508A - Method for detecting tryptophan and metabolite and application - Google Patents

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CN114509508A
CN114509508A CN202011288293.XA CN202011288293A CN114509508A CN 114509508 A CN114509508 A CN 114509508A CN 202011288293 A CN202011288293 A CN 202011288293A CN 114509508 A CN114509508 A CN 114509508A
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The invention discloses a method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites and application thereof, and relates to the technical field of metabolic component analysis, wherein the method comprises the step of detecting tryptophan and metabolites which are extracted by a liquid-liquid extraction method and separated by using a C18 chromatographic column by using LC-MS/MS. The mobile phase used for the liquid chromatography separation consisted of an aqueous phase consisting of 0.3% strength formic acid, 25mM ammonium formate and water and an organic phase consisting of 0.3% strength formic acid, 0.25% strength acetylacetone and methanol. The double solution is 40% methanol water solution. Mass spectrum scanning adopts MRM technology; wherein, the addition of acetylacetone solves the problem of peak tail removal which can not be solved by the conventional mobile phase. The existing method can only detect one of a serotonin metabolic pathway, a kynurenine metabolic pathway and an aromatic hydrocarbon metabolic pathway, and the invention can simultaneously detect 25 key metabolites of the three pathways, provides more clues for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases and has wider application range.

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Method for detecting tryptophan and metabolite and application
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of metabolome analysis, in particular to a method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites and application thereof.
Background
Tryptophan is used for the synthesis of various proteins, and is also involved in various diseases such as neuronal function, autoimmune diseases, CNS diseases, infectious diseases, and cancer. There are three pathways for tryptophan metabolism, one of which is the serotonin pathway leading to the formation of tryptamine by decarboxylation of aromatic-L-Amino Acid Decarboxylase (AADC); which is the aromatic hydrocarbon metabolic pathway leading to the formation of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) by tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH); and the third is a kynurenine pathway which is characterized in that three rate-limiting enzymes of IDO1, IDO2 and TDO are converted into N-formyl kynurenine (NFK), the NFK forms kynurenine (Kyn) under the action of kynurenine formamide enzyme (AFMID), the Kyn is converted into Anthranilic Acid (AA) through kynurenine enzyme (KYNU), and the Kyn generates Kynurenine (KA) under the action of kynurenine aminotransferase (KATI-KATIII). In addition, tryptophan metabolism is also directly or indirectly affected by intestinal microorganisms. Therefore, the purpose of treating diseases is achieved by using molecules targeting specific pathways or producing microorganisms for regulating tryptophan metabolism.
LC-MS/MS is a combination technology developed in recent years and has application in the fields of medicine and in-vivo medicine analysis, stimulant and drug detection, pesticide or veterinary drug residue analysis and the like. It is known that the chemical structure of substances in tryptophan metabolic pathways is greatly different, and the detection difficulty is increased along with the increase of detection substances. At present, although the LC-MS method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites is reported, only five or six substances in a certain path or only one path can be detected, and the detection of a plurality of substances covering a plurality of metabolic paths cannot be realized.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites and application thereof, which adopts a liquid-liquid extraction method to extract the tryptophan and the metabolites in a sample, detects the tryptophan and the metabolites after liquid phase separation, and adopts an isotope internal standard method to quantify, aiming at solving the problems that the prior art cannot detect the tryptophan and the metabolites in the whole channel and has peak tailing.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
a method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites comprises performing mass spectrum detection on tryptophan and metabolites extracted by liquid-liquid extraction and separated by C18 chromatographic column by LC-MS/MS; the mobile phase adopted by the liquid chromatography separation consists of a water phase and an organic phase, wherein the water phase consists of 0.3% formic acid, 25mM ammonium formate and water, the organic phase consists of 0.3% formic acid, 0.25% acetylacetone and methanol, and the redissolution is 40% methanol aqueous solution; mass spectrometry scans used MRM techniques.
Further, in the liquid-liquid extraction method, the treatment of precipitated protein extraction tryptophan and metabolite extraction is included, and the adopted extracting solution is a methanol/acetonitrile mixed solution, wherein the volume ratio of methanol to acetonitrile to water is 2: 2: 1; after the protein is precipitated, centrifugation is carried out and the supernatant containing tryptophan and metabolite is extracted.
Further, concentrating and drying the supernatant to obtain tryptophan and metabolites, and then re-dissolving by using the re-solution.
Further, before the extraction of tryptophan and metabolites from the solid sample to be detected, the method also comprises the step of homogenizing the solid sample to be detected.
Specifically, the method comprises the following steps:
and step S1, preparing internal standard solutions, respectively weighing each isotope internal standard, adding 40% methanol solution to dissolve the isotope internal standards to prepare a mixed internal standard solution with the concentration of 1 mu g/ml for later use.
And step S2, preparing standard substance solutions, weighing the standard substances respectively, adding 40% methanol solution, and dissolving to obtain a mixed standard substance solution of 25 μ g/ml for later use.
Step S3, constructing a standard curve, and diluting the standard solution obtained in the step S2 to 2.5ng/ml in a gradient manner; 100 μ L of each standard solution with gradient concentration is taken, and each diluted standard solution is treated as follows: adding 10 μ L of the mixed internal standard solution with the concentration of 1 μ g/ml obtained in the step S1, carrying out vortex mixing, adding 400 μ L of methanol/acetonitrile mixed solution, carrying out vortex for 30 seconds, centrifuging for 10min at 14000g, taking the supernatant, carrying out vacuum drying, finally re-dissolving with 100 μ L of 40% methanol solution, centrifuging for 15min at 14000g and 4 ℃, taking the supernatant, and carrying out LC-MS/MS analysis to obtain a standard curve.
Step S4, analyzing the sample, taking 100 mu L of serum sample, adding 10 mu L of mixed internal standard solution with the concentration of 1 mu g/ml obtained in the step S1, and mixing in a vortex manner; adding 400 mu L of the methanol/acetonitrile mixed solution, whirling for 30 seconds, and then centrifuging for 10min by 14000 g; collecting supernatant, vacuum drying, re-dissolving with 100 μ L40% methanol solution, centrifuging at 14000g and 4 deg.C for 15min, collecting supernatant, LC-MS/MS analyzing, and calculating the concentration of corresponding substance according to the standard curve constructed in step S3.
More specifically, in step S1, the internal isotope standards include Serotonin-d4, 2-Picolinic-d4 Acid, 5-Hydroxyindole-3-acetic-2 ¸ 2-d2 Acid, 3-Hydroxyanthracycline Acid-d3, Tryptomine-d 4, 3-Indole Sulfate sodium Salt-d 4, L-Kynurenine-d4, Indole-d7 and Meldonin-d 4.
More specifically, in step S2, the standard includes L-kynurenine, Tryptamine, Indole, Quinolic Acid, Indole-3-carboxaldehyde, 3-Methyl-indele, Indole-3-propinic Acid, Kynuric Acid, 3-hydroxy-L-kynurenine, Indoleactate (IAA), Serotonin, 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan, Picolinic Acid, 5-hydroxy-3-acetic Acid, 3-hydroxy-anthracyanic Acid, N-Methyl-kynurenine, Xanthonic Acid, Cinnalitininic Acid, Indolyl-beta-D-glucuronide, 3-hydroxy-3-cyanohydrin, N-Methyl-tryptophane, Xantholytic Acid, and Metalacetic Acid, and P-Indole-3-beta-D-glucopyranoside.
More specifically, the liquid phase method in the LC-MS/MS analysis used in the step S3 and step S4 is as follows: separating by UPLC system, placing the sample in an automatic sample injector at 4 deg.C, at 45 deg.C, at 400 μ L/min, and at 5 μ L; the gradient of the related liquid phase is 0-2min, and the B phase is maintained at 15%; 2-9min, phase B changes linearly from 15% to 98%; 9-11min, maintaining phase B at 98%; 11-11.5min, phase B changes linearly from 98% to 15%; 11.5-14min, keeping phase B at 15%.
More specifically, the mass spectrometry conditions in the LC-MS/MS analysis used in step S3 and step S4 are set as follows:
mass spectrometry was performed in positive/negative ion mode using 5500 QTRAP mass Spectrometer (SCIEX); 5500 QTRAP ESI source positive ion conditions are as follows: source temperature of 450 deg.c; ion Source Gas1 (Gas1): 45; ion Source Gas2 (Gas2): 45; curtain gas (CUR) 40; ionSapary Voltage flowing (ISVF) 4500V; 5500 QTRAP ESI source anion conditions are as follows: source temperature of 450 deg.C; ion Source Gas1 (Gas1): 45; ion Source Gas2 (Gas2): 45; curtain gas (CUR) 40; and detecting the ion pair to be detected by adopting an MRM mode.
Specifically, the detection method is applied to a tryptophan and metabolite detection system, a detection system platform, a detection device or a kit.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that:
the invention can lead tryptophan and metabolite to have good baseline separation through the specially developed re-solution and mobile phase, and can detect more tryptophan and metabolites. The method has good linearity, repeatability and accuracy. The method realizes the detection of tryptophan and metabolites by a sample-by-sample quantitative method, greatly improves the detection efficiency and reduces the detection cost.
In addition, the method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites disclosed by the invention needs a small amount of samples, has strong specificity, high sensitivity and good stability, can detect 25 kinds of tryptophan and metabolites at the same time within 15min of machine loading, and covers three metabolic pathways of tryptophan. The kit is suitable for common biological sample types such as animal tissues, feces, serum, plasma and the like, has wide application range, is even suitable for saliva, and realizes real non-invasion.
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The following describes specific embodiments of the present invention. Numerous details are set forth below in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention, but it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these details.
A method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites comprises the following steps:
step S1, preparing internal standard solutions, respectively weighing isotope internal standards, adding 40% methanol solution to dissolve the isotope internal standards to prepare a mixed internal standard solution with the concentration of 1 mu g/ml for later use; the isotope internal standard comprises Serotonin-d4 (deuterated Serotonin), 2-Picolinic-d4 Acid (deuterated Picolinic Acid), 5-Hydroxyindole-3-acetic-2 ¸ 2-d2 Acid (deuterated-5-Hydroxyindole-3-acetic Acid), 3-Hydroxyanthranilic Acid-d3 (deuterated-3-Hydroxyanthranilic Acid), Tryptamine-d4 (deuterated Tryptamine), 3-Indoxyl Sulfate Potasium Salt-d 4 (deuterated Potassium Indole Sulfate), L-Kynurene-d 4 (deuterated Kynurenine), Indole-d7 (deuterated Indole), and Melanon-d 4 (deuterated Melatonin).
And step S2, preparing standard substance solutions, weighing the standard substances respectively, adding 40% methanol solution, and dissolving to obtain a mixed standard substance solution of 25 μ g/ml for later use. Wherein the standard substance comprises L-kynurenine, Tryptamine, Indole, Quinolinic Acid, Indole-3-carboxaldehyde, 3-Methyl-Indole (3-methylindole),
Indole-3-propionic Acid (3-indolepropionic Acid), Kynurenic Acid (Kynurenic Acid), 3-hydroxyyl-L-kynurenine (3-hydroxykynurenine), Indole Acid (IAA) (indoleacetic Acid), Serotonin (Serotonin), 5-hydroxyyl-L-tryptophane (5-hydroxytryptophan), Picolinic Acid (Picolinic Acid), 5-Hydroxyindole-3-acetic Acid (5-Hydroxyindole-3-acetic Acid), 3-hydroxyindolenine Acid (3-Hydroxyanthranilic Acid), N-formamyl-kynurenine (N-formylkynurenine), Xanthurenic Acid (xanthuric Acid), cinnalytic Acid (cinnamyl-beta-D-glucuronide), cinnamyl-beta-D-glucuronide (Indole-D-glucopyranoside), Indole-3-acetylaldehyde-3-acetic Acid (Indole-3-acetic Acid), and Indole-L-3-L-D-glucuronide (Indole-3-D-acetyl-acetic Acid) 3-Indoxyl Sulfate Potasssium Salt (Potassium Indoxyl Sulfate), Indole-3-lactic Acid (3-indolelactic Acid), Melatonin (Melatonin), beta-Nicotinamide adenine dinucletotide (NAD +, oxidative coenzyme I), and L-tryptophan (tryptophan).
Step S3, constructing a standard curve, and diluting the standard solution obtained in the step S2 to 2.5ng/ml in a gradient manner; 100 mu L of each standard solution with gradient concentration is taken, and each diluted standard solution is treated as follows: adding 10 μ L of the mixed internal standard solution with the concentration of 1 μ g/ml obtained in the step S1, carrying out vortex mixing, adding 400 μ L of methanol/acetonitrile mixed solution, carrying out vortex for 30 seconds, centrifuging for 10min at 14000g, taking the supernatant, carrying out vacuum drying, finally re-dissolving with 100 μ L of 40% methanol solution, centrifuging for 15min at 14000g and 4 ℃, taking the supernatant, and carrying out LC-MS/MS analysis to obtain a standard curve.
Step S4, analyzing a sample, namely adding 10 mu L of serum sample into the mixed internal standard solution with the concentration of 1 mu g/ml obtained in the step S1, carrying out vortex mixing, adding 400 mu L of methanol/acetonitrile mixed solution, carrying out vortex for 30 seconds, centrifuging for 10min by 14000g, taking supernatant, carrying out vacuum drying, finally re-dissolving by 100 mu L of 40% methanol solution, centrifuging for 15min at 14000g and 4 ℃, taking supernatant, carrying out LC-MS/MS analysis, and converting the analysis result into the corresponding substance concentration by using the standard curve constructed in the step S3;
the liquid phase method in the LC-MS/MS analysis used in step S3 and step S4 is as follows: separating by UPLC system, placing the sample in an autosampler at 4 deg.C, column temperature of 45 deg.C, flow rate of 400 μ L/min, and sample amount of 5 μ L. The gradient of the related liquid phase is 0-2min, and the B phase is maintained at 15%; 2-9min, phase B changes linearly from 15% to 98%; 9-11min, maintaining phase B at 98%; 11-11.5min, phase B changes linearly from 98% to 15%; 11.5-14min, keeping phase B at 15%.
The mass spectrum conditions in the LC-MS/MS analysis used in step S3 and step S4 are set as follows:
mass spectrometry was performed using a 5500 QTRAP mass Spectrometer (SCIEX) in positive/negative ion mode. 5500 QTRAP ESI source positive ion conditions are as follows: source temperature of 450 deg.C; ion Source Gas1 (Gas1): 45; ion Source Gas2 (Gas2): 45; curtain gas (CUR) 40; ionSapary Voltage flowing (ISVF) 4500V; 5500 QTRAP ESI source anion conditions are as follows: source temperature of 450 deg.C; ion Source Gas1 (Gas1): 45; ion Source Gas2 (Gas2): 45; curtain gas (CUR) 40; ionsapart volume flowing (ISVF): 4500V, detecting the ion pair to be detected by adopting an MRM mode, and detecting the ion pair to be detected by the object to be detected in table 1.
TABLE 1 Tryptophan MRM parameters
Analyte Q1(Da) Q3(Da) DP(V) CE(V) CXP(V) EP(V)
L-kynurenine 209.2 192 70 12 5 10
Picolinic acid 124.2 77.9 90 22 5 10
5-Hydroxyindole-3-acetic acid 192.2 146.1 83 19 5 10
Tryptamine 161.2 144.1 60 15 5 10
Melatonin 233.2 174.1 80 22 5 10
Xanthurenic acid 206.1 159.9 100 25 5 10
N-formyl-kynurenine 237.2 192 67 18 5 10
Cinnavalininic acid 301.2 283 145 25 5 10
3-Methyl-indole 132.2 117.1 144 29 5 10
Kynurenic acid 190.2 172 100 19 5 10
5-Hydroxy-L-Tryptophan 221.2 204 80 15 5 10
Serotonin 177.2 160.1 70 16 5 10
Indoleacetate(IAA) 176.1 130.2 73 30 5 10
Indole-3-acetaldehyde 160.1 117.1 108 32 5 10
Tryptophan 205.2 188.1 72 15 5 10
3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid 151.9 108 -50 -16 -10 -10
Indole 115.9 40.2 -150 -46 -10 -10
3-Indoxyl sulfate 211.9 79.9 -60 -29 -10 -10
Quinolinic acid 165.8 78 -40 -18 -10 -10
3-Hydroxyl-L-kynurenine 223 206 -60 -12 -10 -10
Indole-3-carboxaldehyde 143.9 116 -110 -33 -10 -10
Indole-3-propionic acid 187.9 59.1 -60 -20 -10 -10
Indole-3-lactic acid 204 158 -56 -20 -10 -10
Indoxyl-b-D-glucuronide 308 113 -75 -18 -10 -10
NAD 662.1 539.9 -70 -18 -10 -10
L-kynurenine-d4 213.3 96.1 75 18 5 10
Picolinic acid-d4 128 110.1 105 15 5 10
5-Hydroxyindole-3-acetic-2,2-acid-d2 194.2 148 77 23 5 10
Tryptamine-d4 165.2 148.1 95 17 5 10
Melatonin-d4 237.3 178.1 95 21 5 10
Serotonin-d4 181.2 164.1 92 15 5 10
3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid-d3 154.9 111.1 -65 -17 -10 -10
Indole-d6 122.1 42 -61 -50 -10 -10
3-Indoxyl sulfate-d4 215.7 79.9 -60 -35 -10 -10
The following further analysis of the test results of this example was performed to verify the feasibility of the present invention: and establishing a standard curve by adopting an isotope internal standard quantitative method and taking the concentration of the standard substance as an x axis and the ratio of the peak area of the standard substance to the peak area of the internal standard substance as a y axis. The concentrations of tryptophan and its metabolites in human serum were calculated from this curve. The signal-to-noise ratio of the characteristic ion MRM chromatographic peak is greater than 3 as the detection Limit (LOD), and the signal-to-noise ratio is greater than 10 as the quantification Limit (LOQ), and the results are as follows:
TABLE 2 concentration of Tryptophan and its metabolites in human serum
Substance(s) Retention time (min) Linear range (ng/ml) Linear equation of equations Coefficient of correlation R LOD(ng/ml) LOQ(ng/ml)
L-kynurenine 1.28 2.5-2500 Y=0.03264X-0.16292 0.99919 0.5 2.5
Picolinic acid 0.80 5-2500 Y=0.00122X-0.01604 0.99937 1 5
5-Hydroxyindole-3-acetic acid 3.20 5-2500 Y=0.00400X+0.05520 0.99985 2.5 5
3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid 2.84 5-1250 Y=0.16709X+3.84881 0.99766 1 5
Tryptamine 2.77 0.5-1250 Y=0.01345X+0.03374 0.99922 0.1 0.5
Indole 5.63 125-2500 Y=7.935e-6X-3.96528e-4 0.99915 0.5 12.5
Melatonin 5.77 0.5-50 Y=0.08144X-0.03241 0.99826 0.5 0.5
3-Indoxyl sulfate 3.28 5-1250 Y=0.00311X+0.00160 0.99951 0.5 5
Xanthurenic acid 3.51 5-2500 Y=2.00113e-4X-2.38663e-4 0.99733 2.5 5
Quinolinic acid 0.86 12.5-2500 Y=4.21765e-5X-0.00847 0.99937 2.5 12.5
N-formyl-kynurenine 1.36 5-2500 Y=0.01160X+0.02012 0.99786 1 5
Cinnavalininic acid 6.63 125-2500 Y=2.34374e-4X-0.03133 0.9972 40 125
3-Hydroxyl-L-kynurenine 0.91 2.5-2500 Y=0.00105X-0.03766 0.99828 0.5 2.5
Indole-3-carboxaldehyde 5.62 2.5-50 Y=4.83721e-4X+0.00141 0.99742 0.5 2.5
3-Methyl-indole 7.47 50-2500 Y=1.67625e-5X+0.00654 0.99899 10 50
Indole-3-propionic acid 6.58 12.5-500 Y=3.45745e-5X-0.00608 0.99681 1 12.5
Kynurenic acid 5.62 1.25-50 Y=0.01749X+0.03472 0.99922 0.25 1.25
Indole-3-lactic acid 5.41 5-2500 Y=0.00101X-0.14566 0.99901 1 5
Indoxyl-b-D-glucuronide 2.79 12.5-1250 Y=1.54470e-4X+0.00128 0.99653 2.5 12.5
5-Hydroxy-L-Tryptophan 1.07 12.5-2500 Y=0.00936X-0.12621 0.9964 2.5 12.5
Serotonin 1.03 2.5-500 Y=0.01011X-0.02356 0.9994 0.5 2.5
Indoleacetate(IAA) 5.88 2.5-2500 Y=0.00426X-0.00496 0.9985 0.5 2.5
Indole-3-acetaldehyde 5.91 50-2500 Y=9.91965e-6X-6.94595e-4 0.99889 5 50
Tryptophan 2.30 5-500 Y=0.00160X-0.27164 0.99957 0.5 5
NAD 0.72 1.25-500 Y=6.04493e-5X+2.90352e-4 0.99967 0.1 1.25
Therefore, the 25 tryptophan and metabolites thereof have good linear relation in the respective concentration linear range, and meet the quantitative requirement.
The stability and recovery rate of the method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites thereof disclosed by the present invention were tested, and the results are shown in table 3, wherein the Average Value (AV), Coefficient of Variation (CV) and recovery Rate (RE) of the values were analyzed.
TABLE 3 stability and recovery test results for serum samples
Component Name AV(ng/ml) CV(%) RE(%)
L-kynurenine 443.56 4.90 92.26
Picolinic acid 34.55 2.86 99.67
5-Hydroxyindole-3-acetic acid 12.40 4.44 88.01
3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid 7.60 8.95 113.49
Tryptamine 0.64 7.60 117.21
Indole 12.97 13.48 119.91
Melatonin 0.56 2.43 94.10
3-Indoxyl sulfate 778.24 7.76 107.79
Xanthurenic acid 30.10 3.32 83.28
Quinolinic acid 275.63 2.38 116.96
N-formyl-kynurenine 123.20 4.10 101.80
Cinnavalininic acid 2110.91 14.53 107.34
3-Hydroxyl-L-kynurenine 66.78 7.57 114.32
Indole-3-carboxaldehyde 3.33 10.76 94.04
3-Methyl-indole 51.2 12.69 81.64
Indole-3-propionic acid 2086.06 7.59 106.46
Kynurenic acid 4.66 10.07 94.83
Indole-3-lactic acid 527.25 3.27 111.60
Indoxyl-b-D-glucuronide 10.47 9.89 102.55
5-Hydroxy-L-Tryptophan 16.18 8.63 80.08
Serotonin 44.12 3.74 100.22
Indoleacetate(IAA) 351.09 1.75 92.15
Indole-3-acetaldehyde 51.75 9.76 90.81
Tryptophan 9524.63 4.54 118.06
NAD 1.36 12.6 89.16
The results in table 3 show that the method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites thereof disclosed by the invention can be used for detecting 25 tryptophan and metabolites thereof in a human serum sample, the stability of the detection result is good, and the recovery rate is 80-120%.
In short, the method for detecting the tryptophan and the metabolites uses LC-MS/MS to carry out mass spectrum detection on the tryptophan and the metabolites which are extracted by a liquid-liquid extraction method and separated by using a C18 chromatographic column; the mobile phase adopted by the liquid chromatography separation consists of a water phase and an organic phase, wherein the water phase consists of 0.3% formic acid, 25mM ammonium formate and water, the organic phase consists of 0.3% formic acid, 0.25% acetylacetone and methanol, and the redissolution is 40% methanol aqueous solution; mass spectrometry scans used MRM techniques. In the liquid-liquid extraction method, the method comprises the following steps: (1) treating the precipitated protein to extract tryptophan and metabolites, wherein the adopted extracting solution is a methanol/acetonitrile mixed solution, and the volume ratio of methanol to acetonitrile to water is 2: 2: 1; after the protein is precipitated, centrifugation is carried out and the supernatant containing tryptophan and metabolite is extracted. (2) Concentrating and drying the supernatant to obtain tryptophan and metabolite, and then re-dissolving by using the re-solution. (3) In addition, before extracting tryptophan and metabolites from the solid sample to be tested, the solid sample to be tested is required to be homogenized.
The detection method disclosed by the invention can be applied to a detection system, a detection system platform, a detection device or a kit of tryptophan and metabolites.
On the basis of the tests, the tryptophan and the metabolites thereof of three samples of urine, feces and animal tissues are respectively extracted and detected by adopting the tryptophan and the metabolite detection method disclosed by the invention. The extraction methods of tryptophan and its metabolites from the three samples are as follows.
Firstly, urine sample tryptophan and metabolite extraction and detection thereof, the urine sample that this embodiment adopted is normal human urine, and the concrete step is as follows:
1) extracting a human urine, and unfreezing a sample at the temperature of 4 ℃;
2) vortex for 30s, and suck 100. mu.L into a 1.5mL centrifuge tube;
3) adding 10 μ L of internal standard solution (1 μ g/ml), adding 400 μ L of precooled extract methanol/acetonitrile mixture (volume ratio of water, methanol and acetonitrile =1:2: 2);
4) centrifuging in a centrifuge for 15min (14000 rcf 4 deg.C), and vacuum drying 400 μ L of supernatant;
5) adding 100 mu L of 40% methanol aqueous solution for redissolving during mass spectrometry detection;
6) vortex and mix evenly for 30s, centrifuge for 15min at 14000 rcf 4 ℃;
7) taking the supernatant, and detecting on a machine.
The results are shown in Table 4.
TABLE 4 detection results of tryptophan and its metabolites in urine
Component Name CON(ng/ml)
L-kynurenine 1776.16
Picolinic acid 202.10
5-Hydroxyindole-3-acetic acid 4748.94
3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid 1167.68
Tryptamine 166.15
Indole 167.37
Melatonin 1.09
3-Indoxyl sulfate 58660.65
Xanthurenic acid 753.15
Quinolinic acid 16717.82
N-formyl-kynurenine 293.97
Cinnavalininic acid 3431.90
3-Hydroxyl-L-kynurenine 899.63
Indole-3-carboxaldehyde 21.60
3-Methyl-indole 350.51
Indole-3-propionic acid 12.64
Kynurenic acid 4.73
Indole-3-lactic acid 996.55
Indoxyl-b-D-glucuronide 1098.94
5-Hydroxy-L-Tryptophan 342.52
Serotonin 77.07
Indoleacetate(IAA) 2386.32
Indole-3-acetaldehyde 2807.31
Tryptophan 27441.35
NAD 0.84
Therefore, the method for detecting tryptophan and the metabolite thereof disclosed by the invention can effectively detect the tryptophan and the metabolite thereof in the 25 th urine sample.
Secondly, extracting and detecting tryptophan and metabolites thereof in a stool sample, wherein the stool sample adopted in the embodiment is normal human stool, and the method comprises the following specific steps:
1) extracting human excrement, and unfreezing the sample at the temperature of 4 ℃;
2) weighing 100 +/-5 mg of a fecal sample in a homogenizing tube;
3) adding 10 μ L of internal standard solution (1 μ g/ml), adding 2 black ceramic beads of 4 mm and 5 zirconia beads of 2 mm, and screwing the cover;
4) adding 500 μ L of a pre-cooled extract methanol/acetonitrile mixture (water, methanol, acetonitrile in a volume ratio =1:2: 2), quenching with liquid nitrogen for 5s, and homogenizing 3 times (20 s each time) in an MP sample preparation apparatus;
5) centrifuging in a centrifuge for 15min (14000 rcf 4 deg.C), and vacuum drying 400 μ L of supernatant;
6) adding 100 mu L of 40% methanol aqueous solution for redissolving during mass spectrometry detection;
7) vortex and mix evenly for 30s, centrifuge for 15min at 14000 rcf 4 ℃;
8) taking the supernatant, and detecting on a machine.
The results are shown in Table 5.
TABLE 5 results of detection of tryptophan and its metabolites in feces
Component Name CON(ng/g)
L-kynurenine 275.79
Picolinic acid 147.85
5-Hydroxyindole-3-acetic acid 163.37
3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid 123.82
Tryptamine 84.40
Indole 1.84
Melatonin 0.24
3-Indoxyl sulfate 51.79
Xanthurenic acid 965.85
Quinolinic acid 8504.07
N-formyl-kynurenine 121.68
Cinnavalininic acid 93333.10
3-Hydroxyl-L-kynurenine 15.50
Indole-3-carboxaldehyde 377.14
3-Methyl-indole 11387.71
Indole-3-propionic acid 1.26
Kynurenic acid 1.65
Indole-3-lactic acid 57152.11
Indoxyl-b-D-glucuronide 7.54
5-Hydroxy-L-Tryptophan 120.18
Serotonin 84.93
Indoleacetate(IAA) 6859.27
Indole-3-acetaldehyde 2.13
Tryptophan 163613.41
NAD 203.44
Therefore, the method for detecting tryptophan and the metabolite thereof disclosed by the invention can effectively detect the tryptophan and the metabolite thereof in the 25 th fecal sample.
Extracting and detecting tryptophan and metabolites thereof in a tissue sample, wherein the tissue sample adopted in the embodiment is a human tumor mass tissue, and the specific steps are as follows:
1) extracting a human tumor mass tissue, and unfreezing a sample at the temperature of 4 ℃;
2) weighing a tissue sample of 100 +/-5 mg in a homogenizing tube;
3) adding 10 μ L of internal standard solution (1 μ g/ml), adding 2 black ceramic beads of 4 mm and 5 zirconia beads of 2 mm, and screwing the cover;
4) adding 500 μ L of a pre-cooled extract methanol/acetonitrile mixture (water, methanol, acetonitrile in a volume ratio =1:2: 2), quenching with liquid nitrogen for 5s, and homogenizing 3 times (20 s each time) in an MP sample preparation apparatus;
5) centrifuging in a centrifuge for 15min (14000 rcf 4 deg.C), and vacuum drying 400 μ L of supernatant;
6) adding 100 mu L of 40% methanol aqueous solution for redissolving during mass spectrometry detection;
7) vortex and mix evenly for 30s, centrifuge for 15min at 14000 rcf 4 ℃;
8) taking the supernatant, and detecting on a machine.
The results are shown in Table 6.
TABLE 6 results of tryptophan and its metabolites in tissues
Component Name CON(ng/g)
L-kynurenine 86.13
Picolinic acid 433.87
5-Hydroxyindole-3-acetic acid 91.83
3-Hydroxyanthranilic acid 1.07
Tryptamine 0.57
Indole 0.98
Melatonin 0.51
3-Indoxyl sulfate 129.45
Xanthurenic acid 0.75
Quinolinic acid 302.12
N-formyl-kynurenine 28.62
Cinnavalininic acid 0.67
3-Hydroxyl-L-kynurenine 1.24
Indole-3-carboxaldehyde 16.00
3-Methyl-indole 0.19
Indole-3-propionic acid 10.15
Kynurenic acid 67.76
Indole-3-lactic acid 188.04
Indoxyl-b-D-glucuronide 0.96
5-Hydroxy-L-Tryptophan 130.78
Serotonin 108.65
Indoleacetate(IAA) 77.70
Indole-3-acetaldehyde 12.67
Tryptophan 44445.45
NAD 2.43
Therefore, the method for detecting tryptophan and the metabolite thereof disclosed by the invention can effectively detect the tryptophan and the metabolite thereof in the tissue sample.
In conclusion, the specially-developed re-solution and the specially-developed mobile phase can enable tryptophan and metabolites to have good baseline separation, and can detect more tryptophan and metabolites. That is, the mobile phase developed by the present invention can improve the chromatographic behavior of tryptophan and its metabolites. The mobile phase enables the chromatographic behavior to have better separation and peak type, so that certain substances with peak type severe tailing can be accurately and quantitatively detected, for example, Cinnavillinic acid, and the traditional mobile phase is adopted, and the peak type tailing cannot obtain an effective detection result; by adopting the detection method, the peak type of the Cinnavillinic acid can be effectively improved, and an accurate detection result can be obtained. The method has good linearity, repeatability and accuracy. The method realizes the detection of tryptophan and metabolites by a sample-by-sample quantitative method, greatly improves the detection efficiency and reduces the detection cost.
In addition, the method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites disclosed by the invention needs a small amount of samples, has strong specificity, high sensitivity and good stability, can detect 25 kinds of tryptophan and metabolites at the same time within 15min of machine loading, and covers three metabolic pathways of tryptophan. The kit is suitable for common biological sample types such as animal tissues, feces, serum, plasma and the like, has wide application range, is even suitable for saliva, and realizes real non-invasion.
The above description is only an embodiment of the present invention, but the design concept of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any insubstantial modifications made by using the design concept should fall within the scope of infringing the present invention.

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1. A method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites, comprising: performing mass spectrometric detection on tryptophan and metabolites extracted by a liquid-liquid extraction method and separated by using a C18 chromatographic column by using LC-MS/MS; the mobile phase adopted by the liquid chromatography separation consists of a water phase and an organic phase, wherein the water phase consists of 0.3% formic acid, 25mM ammonium formate and water, the organic phase consists of 0.3% formic acid, 0.25% acetylacetone and methanol, and the redissolution is 40% methanol aqueous solution; mass spectrometry scans used MRM techniques.
2. The method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites according to claim 1, wherein: the liquid-liquid extraction method comprises the steps of extracting tryptophan and metabolite from precipitated protein, wherein the adopted extracting solution is a methanol/acetonitrile mixed solution, and the volume ratio of methanol to acetonitrile to water is 2: 2: 1; after the protein is precipitated, centrifugation is carried out and the supernatant containing tryptophan and metabolite is extracted.
3. The method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites according to claim 2, wherein: concentrating and drying the supernatant to obtain tryptophan and metabolite, and then re-dissolving the re-solution.
4. The method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites according to claim 2, wherein: before the extraction of tryptophan and metabolites from the solid sample to be detected, the method also comprises the step of homogenizing the solid sample to be detected.
5. The method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites according to claim 1, comprising the steps of:
step S1, preparing internal standard solutions, respectively weighing each isotope internal standard, adding 40% methanol solution to dissolve to prepare a mixed internal standard solution with the concentration of 1 mu g/ml for later use;
step S2, preparing standard substance solutions, respectively weighing each standard substance, adding 40% methanol solution to dissolve to prepare a mixed standard substance solution of 25 μ g/ml for later use;
step S3, constructing a standard curve, and carrying out gradient dilution on the standard solution obtained in the step S2 to 2.5 ng/ml; 100 μ L of each standard solution with gradient concentration is taken, and each diluted standard solution is treated as follows: adding 10 mu L of mixed internal standard solution with the concentration of 1 mu g/ml obtained in the step S1, carrying out vortex mixing, adding 400 mu L of methanol/acetonitrile mixed solution, carrying out vortex for 30 seconds, centrifuging for 10min at 14000g, taking supernate, carrying out vacuum drying, finally re-dissolving with 100 mu L of 40% methanol solution, centrifuging for 15min at 14000g and 4 ℃, taking supernate, and carrying out LC-MS/MS analysis to obtain a standard curve;
step S4, analyzing the sample, taking 100 mu L of serum sample, adding 10 mu L of mixed internal standard solution with the concentration of 1 mu g/ml obtained in the step S1, and mixing in a vortex manner; adding 400 mu L of the methanol/acetonitrile mixed solution, whirling for 30 seconds, and then centrifuging for 10min by 14000 g; and taking the supernatant, drying the supernatant by using vacuum, redissolving the supernatant by using 100 mu L of 40% methanol solution, centrifuging the redissolved solution at 14000g and 4 ℃ for 15min, taking the supernatant, performing LC-MS/MS analysis, and converting the analysis result into the concentration of a corresponding substance by using the standard curve constructed in the step S3.
6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the method comprises the steps of: in step S1, the isotope internal standards include Serotonin-d4, 2-Picolinic-d4 Acid, 5-Hydroxyindole-3-acetic-2 ¸ 2-d2 Acid, 3-Hydroxyanthracranic Acid-d3, Tryptomine-d 4, 3-Indole Sulfate sodium Salt-d 4, L-Kynurenine-d4, indium-d 7 and Meldonin-d 4.
7. The method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites according to claim 6, wherein: in step S2, the standard includes L-kynurenine, Tryptamine, Indole, Quinolic Acid, indium-3-carboxaldehyde, 3-Methyl-indele, Indole-3-propinic Acid, Kynurenic Acid, 3-hydroxy-L-kynurenine, induced title (IAA), Serotonin, 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan, Picolinic Acid, 5-hydroxy-3-acetic Acid, 3-hydroxy-anthraninic Acid, N-formaldehyde-kynurenine, Xanthurenic Acid, cinnalinic Acid, Indole-beta-D-glucuronide, Indole-3-thionine, antibiotic-beta-3-alumina, and antibiotic-3-lactone, alumina-3-beta-cellulose, alumina-3-beta-lactone, alumina-3-alumina-beta-cellulose, alumina-3-alumina-lactone, alumina-3-cellulose, alumina-3-alumina-cellulose, alumina-3-cellulose, alumina-alumina, alumina-alumina, alumina-alumina, alumina-alumina, alumina-alumina, alumina-alumina, alumina-alumina, alumina-alumina, alumina-alumina, alumina-alumina, alumina-alumina, alumina-alumina.
8. The method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites according to claim 6, wherein: the liquid phase method in the LC-MS/MS analysis used in the step S3 and the step S4 is as follows: separating by UPLC system, placing the sample in an automatic sample injector at 4 deg.C, at 45 deg.C, at 400 μ L/min, and at 5 μ L; the gradient of the related liquid phase is 0-2min, and the B phase is maintained at 15%; 2-9min, phase B changes linearly from 15% to 98%; 9-11min, maintaining phase B at 98%; 11-11.5min, phase B changes linearly from 98% to 15%; 11.5-14min, keeping phase B at 15%.
9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the method comprises the steps of: the mass spectrum conditions in the LC-MS/MS analysis used in step S3 and step S4 are set as follows:
mass spectrometry was performed in positive/negative ion mode using 5500 QTRAP mass Spectrometer (SCIEX); 5500 QTRAP ESI source positive ion conditions are as follows: source temperature of 450 deg.c; ion Source Gas1 (Gas1): 45; ion Source Gas2 (Gas2): 45; curtain gas (CUR) 40; ionSapary Voltage flowing (ISVF) 4500V; 5500 QTRAP ESI source anion conditions are as follows: source temperature of 450 deg.C; ion Source Gas1 (Gas1): 45; ion Source Gas2 (Gas2): 45; curtain gas (CUR) 40; and detecting the ion pair to be detected by adopting an MRM mode.
10. The method for detecting tryptophan and metabolites according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein: the detection method is applied to a detection system, a detection system platform, a detection device or a kit of tryptophan and metabolites.
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