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Journal Article
Identification and quantification of ricin in biomedical samples by magnetic immunocapture enrichment and liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry
2014
Overview
Ricin is a toxic protein derived from castor beans and composed of a cytotoxic A chain and a galactose-binding B chain linked by a disulfide bond, which can inhibit protein synthesis and cause cell death. Owing to its high toxicity, ease of preparation, and lack of medical countermeasures, ricin has been listed as both chemical and biological warfare agents. For homeland security or public safety, the unambiguous, sensitive, and rapid methods for identification and quantification of ricin in complicated matrices are of urgent need. Mass spectrometric analysis, which provides specific and sensitive characterization of protein, can be applied to confirm and quantify ricin. Here, we report a liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS) method in which ricin was extracted and enriched from serum by immunocapture using anti-ricin monoclonal antibody 3D74 linked to magnetic beads, then digested by trypsin, and analyzed by LC-ESI-MS/MS. Among 19 distinct peptides observed in LC-quadrupole/time of flight-MS (LC-QTOF-MS), two specific and sensitive peptides, T
7A
(
49
VGLPINQR
56
) and T
14B
(
188
DNCLTSDSNIR
198
), were chosen, and a highly sensitive determination of ricin was established in LC-triple quadrupole-MS (LC-QqQ-MS) operating in multiple reaction monitoring mode. These specific peptides can definitely distinguish ricin from the homologous protein
Ricinus communis agglutinin
(RCA120), even though the amino acid sequence homology of the A-chain of ricin and RCA120 is up to ca. 93 % and that of B-chain is ca. 85 %. Furthermore, peptide T
7A
was preferred in the quantification of ricin because its sensitivity was at least one order of magnitude higher than that of the peptide T
14B
. Combined with immunocapture enrichment, this method provided a limit of detection of ca. 2.5 ng/mL and the limit of quantification was ca. 5 ng/mL of ricin in serum, respectively. Both precision and accuracy of this method were determined and the RSD was less than 15 %. This established method was then applied to measure ricin in serum samples collected from rats exposed to ricin at the dosage of 50 μg/kg in an intravenous injection manner. The results showed that ca. 10 ng/mL of the residual ricin in poisoned rats serum could be detected even at 12 h after exposure.
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Analysis of Chemicals Relevant to the Chemical Weapons Convention
/ Animals
/ Antibodies, Monoclonal - chemistry
/ Beads
/ Biological & chemical weapons
/ Chains
/ Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
/ Chemical Warfare Agents - isolation & purification
/ Chemistry and Materials Science
/ electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
/ Exposure
/ Identification and classification
/ Magnets
/ Male
/ Methods
/ Monitoring/Environmental Analysis
/ Peptide Fragments - analysis
/ Peptides
/ Proteins
/ Rats
/ Ricin
/ RNA
/ Serums
/ Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization
/ Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
/ Toxicity
/ trypsin
