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Analysis of lipids mobilized by adipokinetic hormones in the firebug Pyrrhocoris apterur (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae)
BÁRTŮ, Iva
An effect of two adipokinetic hormones (Pyrap-AKH and Peram-CAH-II) on distribution of diacylglycerol (DG) molecular species and their fatty acid (FA) constituents were investigated by liquid chromatography (HPLC) - electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) in haemolymph of the firebug Pyrrhocoris apterus. The results show that DGs with characteristic FAs are preferentially mobilized from fat body (FB) by the action of both AKHs produced by P. apterus. Both the macropterous and brachypterous morphs show very close DG and FA profiles. A separate action of the Pyrap-AKH and the Peram-CAH-II, however, exerts distinct differences in FA distribution at the macropterous morph. It seems that partially C16 and mainly unsaturated C18 FAs play a dominant role in the AKH action with an exclusive position of linoleic acid (18:2) which represents 50 - 60% of the total DG mobilization. The metabolically active C16 and C18 FAs are preferentially absorbed from the linden seeds and accumulated in the FB.
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LC-MS analysis based on probabilistic approach
URBAN, Jan
Liquid chromatography (LC) in tandem with mass spectrometry (MS) is a measurement tool for obtain information about the compounds in the investigated extracts. There were already developed methods for processing and analysis of measured data sets. However, only partial problems of processing/analysis task were handled independently. Therefore, the rst part describes existing methods and techniques commonly used in the LC-MS for the processing and analysis today. In this thesis an approach based on the theory of systems is used for description of abstract model above the measured data. This model encapsulated all processing/analysis steps into appropriate and consistent mathematical space. The creation of this model via description of the measurement device and data outputs is introduced. Abstract model of LC-MS data set is used to decompose the measurement into three partial contributions, the analyte signal, the random noise and the systemic noise. The separation process of the signal could be estimated using the probabilistic approach. That probabilistic approach to the LC-MS analysis was implemented in the developed software, which was published in the Bioinformatics Journal.
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Analysis of organic acids by a novel procedure of extractive derivatization in human plasma and serum by GC/MS
JAHODOVÁ, Lucie
The theme of the bachelor{\crq}s thesis was ``The Analysis of Organic Acids by New Extractive Derivatization Process in Blood Plasma and Serum Using the GC/MS Technique{\crqq}. The objective of the thesis was to develop a method for fast determination of organic acids by a new process of extractive derivatization, to identify and determine organic acids in body fluids, to compare their abundance and to evaluate the possibility of implementation of this method in clinical diagnostics. Body fluids contain hundreds of organic acids, which co-create a clinical picture of a patient{\crq}s health condition. The current research focuses on implementation of methods providing for comprehensive, metabolism-based analysis of these metabolites important from the point of view of diagnostics. Nowadays, an analyst can select from a wide range of methods and several effective analytical and separation techniques for separation, determination and identification of organic acids in complex biological matrices. In the introductory, theoretical part of the bachelor{\crq}s thesis, the knowledge of properties of organic acids and possibilities of their determination are summarized. In the practical part, the method of fast determination of organic acids in body fluids by the GC/MS techniques was developed. By means of this technique, it is possible to analyze large quantities of organic acids in minimum volume of body fluid. Derivatization of a set of several tens of organic acids with ethyl chloroformate in aqueous medium was carried out. The reaction proceeds very fast and at laboratory temperature. The applicability of the developed method was verified through analysis of organic acids in biological samples. In samples of blood serum and plasma, tens of organic acids were identified by means of the above-mentioned method, retention data and EI mass spectra. Experiments performed for the purpose of this thesis proved that derivatization with chloroformates in aqueous medium is a relatively simple, fast and promising method for analysis of organic acids. Follow-up experimental research is necessary to make the methodology applicable in clinical diagnostics and to define advantages and limitations of this new methodological procedure.
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Analyses of glycoproteins from the salivary glands of the tick \kur{Ixodes ricinus}
BUČINSKÁ, Lenka
I characterized several potential glycoproteins in salivary gland extracts from unfed and partially fed females of ticks Ixodes ricinus using enzyme deglycosylation and lectin labeling. Affinity-based (chromatografic) analysis was applied for isolations of glycoproteins with specificity for GNA (mannose), HPA (N-acetylgalactosamine) and MAA II (sialic acid) lectins. GNA specific 120 kDa glycoprotein was isolated from partially fed females and is modified with N-linked glycans containing {$\alpha$}1,3-mannose. Mass spectrometry analyses confirmed the presence carboxypeptidase M in elution fraction gain with GNA affinity chromatography. GNA specific proteins were purified from unfed female salivary gland extracts. MS analyses identified them as proteins similar to arylsulfatase B and cytoskeletal Sojo protein. Proteins (85 and 56 kDa) isolated with HPA affinity chromatography were characterized as Trappin 12, which is a host protein. MAA II lectin was used for labelling and isolation of 100 kDa protein. N-terminal sequence of the MAA II specific protein predicted similarity with a host protein, Siglec 1. Fucose in salivary gland extract was detected with the labelling of AAA, AAL, UEA I and LTL lectins. Results showed that salivary gland extracts contain {$\alpha$}1,2-; {$\alpha$}1,3- and {$\alpha$}1,6- N-linked fucose and O-linked fucose probably as well. GNA specific proteins were detected in partially fed salivary glands acini type II and III using electron transmission microscopy. Fucose was detected on gut and salivary gland structures using fucose-specific lectin AAL.
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Chromatography methods for the determination of stable isotope traced metabolites and their apllication in the clinical research
ŽABOKRTSKÁ, Jana
In medical diagnostics substances labelled with radioactive or stable isotope tracers are used. At present stable isotope-traced substrates 13C or 2H are most commonly used for metabolism evaluation in pathologic situations. A modern approach is a combination of microdialysis method and an application of stable isotopes. In this study analytic methods for the determination of glucose and lactate in microdialysate are described. Due to used substances, labelled with stable isotope-tracers, these substances were determined by the method of gass chromatography with detection by mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The aim of the study was the development, determination of parameters, validation and optimalization of analytic methods oriented on measuring of isotope enrichment of molecules of chosen analytes. The isotope enrichment of glucose was determined after its derivatization by hydroxylamine hydrochloride and acetanhydride. A derivate aldonitril pentacetyl-D-glucose was determined. The method described in the study is the result of optimalization of time and temperature of derivatization of samples of microdialysates and chromatographic conditions. The obtained data were evaluated by the software Chemstation and statistics software SigmaStat. The precision was verified by the method of standard addition and was stated as 1,48%, the precision was determined by repeated measuring of a real sample {--} variation coefficient was 2,51%. Parameters of linear regression for concentrations 0,5 {--} 15 mmol/l were under given conditions with regression coefficient (R2) 0,9997 and the regression equation y = -0,0185 + 0,142x. Glucose for determination by gass chromatography is usually derivatized only by acetanhydride that however using capillary column CP-Sil 8 CB-MS (60 m x 0,32 mm) provides for interference in chromatographic recording {--} a double peak of likely formed anomers of pentacetyl-glucopyranose. For this reason it was necessary to make derivatization of aldehydic group of glucose first by hydroxylamin hydrochloride. The result method shows suitable parameters for using in analysis of microdialysate samples. Lactate was determined by derivatization by dimethoxypropane, propylamine and further by heptafluorobutyranhydride by formation of derivate of L-lactin-n-propylamidheptafluorobutyrate. Following parameters were determined {--} accuracy 3,25%, precision 3,15%, parameters of linear regression for concentrations wihtin 0,5 {--} 10 mmol/l were under given conditions R2 = 0,999 and the regression equation y = 0,215 + 1,039x. This relatively complicated derivatization method was taken over from an associated workshop at the University of Lausanne and its parameters were compared with a simpler method of derivatization by N-(butyl-dimethyl-silyl)-2,2,2-trifluoro-N-methyl-acetamide. The formed derivate di(tert-butyldimethylsilyl) lactate was determinated by the method GC-MS. The precision was 3,02%, accuracy 3,8%, parameters of linear regression R2 = 0,999, the regression equation y = -0,0809 + 0,792x. The presented methods were used in the pilot study of microdialyse of muscle and hepar of rats in various metabolic situations. At present the methods are used in clinical research on patients suffering from diabetes mellitus type I and have extended a spectrum of methods applied by the laboratory of the Clinic of Gerontology and Metabolism of the University Hospital of Hradec Králové.
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