Diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of inborn errors of creatine metabolism and transport using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry in urine, plasma and CSF

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• 作者：Dorothea Haas ; Hongying Gan-Schreier ; Claus-Dieter Langhans ; Alex ; ros Anninos ; Gisela Haege ; Peter Burgard ; Andreas Schulze ; Georg F. Hoffmann ; J眉rgen G. Okun
• 关键词：AGAT ; Arginine ; glycine amidinotransferase ; GAMT ; S-Adenosylmethionine ; guanidinoacetate N-methyltransferase ; CrT ; Creatine transporter ; GAA ; Guanidinoacetate ; CT ; Creatine ; LC&ndash ; MS/MS ; Liquid chromatography&ndash ; tandem mass spectrometry ; CTN ; Creatinine ; CSF ; Cerebrospinal fluid ; MRM ; Multiple reaction monitoring
• 刊名：Gene
• 出版年：15 March, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：538
• 期：1
• 页码：188-194
• 全文大小：483 K

文摘

Biochemical detection of inborn errors of creatine metabolism or transport relies on the analysis of three main metabolites in biological fluids: guanidinoacetate (GAA), creatine (CT) and creatinine (CTN). Unspecific clinical presentation of the diseases might be the cause that only few patients have been diagnosed so far. We describe a LC-MS/MS method allowing fast and reliable diagnosis by simultaneous quantification of GAA, CT and CTN in urine, plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and established reference values for each material.

For quantification deuterated stable isotopes of each analyte were used as internal standards. GAA, CT and CTN were separated by reversed-phase HPLC. The characterization was carried out by scanning the ions of each compound by negative ion tandem mass spectrometry.

Butylation is needed to achieve sufficient signal intensity for GAA and CT but it is not useful for analyzing CTN. The assay is linear in a broad range of analyte concentrations usually found in urine, plasma and CSF. Comparison of the 鈥渢raditional鈥?cation-exchange chromatography and LC-MS/MS showed proportional differences but linear relationships between the two methods.

The described method is characterized by high speed and linearity over large concentration ranges comparable to other published LC-MS methods but with higher sensitivity for GAA and CT. In addition, we present the largest reference group ever published for guanidino compounds in all relevant body fluids. Therefore this method is applicable for high-throughput approaches for diagnosis and follow-up of inborn errors of creatine metabolism and transport.