Simultaneous determination of 3-hydroxyanthranilic and cinnabarinic acid by high-performance liquid chromatography with photometric or electrochemical detection

Christen, S; Stocker, R (1992). Simultaneous determination of 3-hydroxyanthranilic and cinnabarinic acid by high-performance liquid chromatography with photometric or electrochemical detection. Analytical biochemistry, 200(2), pp. 273-9. San Diego, Calif.: Elsevier 10.1016/0003-2697(92)90465-J

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A convenient and rapid method for the simultaneous determination by HPLC of 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid and the dimer derived by its oxidation, cinnabarinic acid, is described. Buffers or biological samples containing these two Trp metabolites were acidified to pH 2.0 and extracted with ethyl acetate with recoveries of 96.5 +/- 0.5 and 93.4 +/- 3.7% for 3-hydroxyanthranilic and cinnabarinic acid, respectively. The two compounds were separated on a reversed-phase (C18) column combined with ion-pair chromatography and detected photometrically or electrochemically. The method was applied successfully to biological systems in which formation of either 3-hydroxyanthranilic or cinnabarinic acid had been described previously. Thus, interferon-gamma-treated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells formed and released significant amounts of 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid into the culture medium and mouse liver nuclear fraction possessed high "cinnabarinic acid synthase" activity. In contrast, addition of 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid to human erythrocytes resulted in only marginal formation of cinnabarinic acid. We conclude that the method described is specific, sensitive, and suitable for the detection of the two Trp metabolites in biological systems.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute for Infectious Diseases

UniBE Contributor:

Christen, Stephan

ISSN:

0003-2697

ISBN:

1632490

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Factscience Import

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 14:56

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:17

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/0003-2697(92)90465-J

PubMed ID:

1632490

Web of Science ID:

A1992HB92600011

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/23703 (FactScience: 43510)

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