Highly selective fluorometric determination of polyamines based on intramolecular excimer-forming derivatization with a pyrene-labeling reagent.
We introduce a novel approach in highly selective and sensitive fluorescence derivatization of polyamines. This method is based on an intramolecular excimer-forming fluorescence derivatization with a pyrene reagent, 4-(1-pyrene)butyric acid N-hydroxysuccinimide ester (PSE), followed by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Polyamines, having two to four amino moieties in a molecule, were converted to the corresponding dipyrene- to tetrapyrene-labeled derivatives by reaction (100 degrees C, 20 min) with PSE. The derivatives afforded intramolecular excimer fluorescence (450-520 nm), which can clearly be discriminated from the monomer (normal) fluorescence (360-420 nm) emitted from PSE, its hydrolysate and monopyrene-labeled derivatives of monoamines. The structures of the derivatives were confirmed by HPLC with mass spectrometry, and the emission of excimer fluorescence could be proved by spectrofluorometry and time-resolved fluorometry. The PSE derivatives of four polyamines [putrescine (Put), cadaverine (Cad), spermidine (Spd), and spermine (Spm)] could be separated by reversed-phase HPLC on a C8 column with linear gradient elution. The detection limits (signal-to-noise ratio of 3) for the polyamines were 1 (Put), 1 (Cad), 5 (Spd), and 8 (Spm) fmol on the column. Furthermore, the present method was so selective that biogenic monoamines gave no peak in the chromatogram.
Nohta
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Laboratory of Molecular Biophotonics, Hamakita, Shizuoka, Japan.
Satozono
H
H
Koiso
K
K
Yoshida
H
H
Ishida
J
J
Yamaguchi
M
M
D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D005470:Fluorometry; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D011073:Polyamines / Q000032:analysis*; D011721:Pyrenes
D011073:Polyamines; D011721:Pyrenes