title: Synthesis and mass spectrometric fragmentation characteristics of imidazole ribosides-analogs of intermediates of purine de novo synthetic pathway.
abstract: Two inherited deficiencies have been described in purine de novo synthesis pathway. Both the defects are diagnosed by detecting ribosides--dephosphorylated substrates of the enzymes--in patient's urine. We describe here a synthesis and mass spectrometric fragmentation of ribosides potentially of diagnostic importance for defects in the second part of the pathway. All the species, except 5-amino-4-imidazolesuccinocarboxamideriboside can be synthesized from the commercially available 5-amino-4-imidazolecarboxamideriboside by chemical methods. Fragmentation spectra of the compounds were obtained by the ion trap mass spectrometry. During fragmentation an opening of the imidazole ring was not observed for any of the compounds but loss of its substituents in the form of small molecules (NH3, CO2, CO) is the major route of fragmentation. The ribose moiety cleaves off molecule(s) of water, undergoes a cross-ring cleavage or breaks away as a whole.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Laboratory for Inherited Metabolic Disorders, Medical Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vyskocilová
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hornik
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Friedecký
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Frycák
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lemr
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Adam
mesh_terms: D000620:Aminoimidazole Carboxamide / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000737:chemistry; D001671:Biochemistry / Q000379:methods; D007477:Ions; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011687:Purines / Q000737:chemistry*; D012263:Ribonucleosides / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D007477:Ions; D011687:Purines; D012263:Ribonucleosides; D000620:Aminoimidazole Carboxamide; C011651:acadesine