title: Measurement of urinary medium chain acyl glycines by gas chromatography--negative ion chemical ionization mass spectrometry.
abstract: Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) deficiency is an inborn error of fatty acid metabolism, which is difficult to diagnose, partly because of its unpredictable clinical presentation. A specific diagnostic marker is an increased excretion of certain medium chain acyl glycines. A sensitive and specific method has been developed for the extraction, derivatization, identification and quantitation of urinary medium chain acyl glycines by gas chromatography-negative ion chemical ionization mass spectrometry (GC-NICIMS). The following series of standard acyl glycines has been synthesized and characterized: hexanoyl, octanoyl, 3-phenylpropionyl and suberyl and their respective isotopomers (using 13C2-glycine; for use as internal standards). The range of excretion of these compounds in normal subjects has been established using this method and increased excretion of acyl glycines, particularly hexanoyl, 3-phenylpropionyl and suberyl was successfully demonstrated in three MCAD deficient subjects from one family.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Midgley
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Logan
mesh_terms: D044944:Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenases / Q000172:deficiency*; D000215:Acylation; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D005998:Glycine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000652:urine; D006801:Humans; D012015:Reference Standards
chemical_list: D044944:Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenases; D005998:Glycine