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Article: Analysis of melamine cyanurate in urine using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry

TitleAnalysis of melamine cyanurate in urine using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry
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Issue Date2009
PublisherAmerican Chemical Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://pubs.acs.org/ac
Citation
Analytical Chemistry, 2009, v. 81 n. 9, p. 3676-3682 How to Cite?
AbstractMatrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) was applied to the direct analysis of melamine cyanurate (MC). The three commonly used MALDI matrixes, namely, α-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA), sinapinic acid (SA), and 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHB), were able to desorb/ionize melamine from MC upon N2 laser irradiation, with CHCA showing the highest detection sensitivity in the positive mode. Only DHB and SA were able to desorb/ionize cyanuric acid from MC in the negative mode but with remarkably lower sensitivity. The method is able to detect melamine unambiguously from a small amount of MC (down to 12.5 μg) spiked into urine and was successfully applied for the rapid and sensitive detection of melamine in urine stones/residues of the samples collected from patients clinically confirmed of having kidney stones associated with the consumption of melamine-tainted food products. The urine matrix resulted in interfering ion peaks and suppressed the ion intensity of melamine, while a cleanup process consisting of simply washing with water eliminated such interference and enhanced the ion intensity. The merit of the method is simplicity in sample preparation. The analytical time of the method for high-throughput analysis from the time of sample treatment to analysis is less than 7 minutes per sample, with sensitive detection of the presence of melamine in the urine stones/residues of the patient samples. © 2009 American Chemical Society.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/148599
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2023 Impact Factor: 6.7
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.621
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Area of Excellence SchemeAoE/P-10/01
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We acknowledge Professor Paul Kwong-Hang Tam of The University of Hong Kong for initiating the research on melamine cyanurate. We acknowledge Professor Chun-Wai Tsang and Professor Kwok-Yin Wong of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for access to the Waters micro MX MALDI-TOF mass spectrometric system. We thank Miss Toby Lau for providing the melamine standard. We thank Dr. Wei Lu for discussion of the experimental data. We acknowledge Miss Bonnie Fong and Dr. Sidney Tam of the Clinical Biochemistry Division, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China, and Drs. Yue Chen and Jing Jin of the Clinical Immunology Centre, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, for assistance in the study. We thank Mr. Wenjie Zong of the Institute of Chemistry (Beijing), Chinese Academy of Sciences, for performing the elemental composition analysis. We thank Ms. Priscilla Leung of the Genome Research Centre of The University of Hong Kong for performing the MALDI tandem mass spectrometry experiment. We thank Ms. Amy S. L. Wong and Mr. Frankie Y. F. Chan of the Electron Microscope Unit of The University of Hong Kong for technical assistance in SEM and EDAX measurements. This project is supported by the Area of Excellence Scheme (Grant AoE/P-10/01) administered by the University Grant Council (Hong Kong SAP, China).

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dc.contributor.authorTang, HWen_HK
dc.contributor.authorNg, KMen_HK
dc.contributor.authorChui, SSYen_HK
dc.contributor.authorChe, CMen_HK
dc.contributor.authorLam, CWen_HK
dc.contributor.authorYuen, KYen_HK
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dc.identifier.citationAnalytical Chemistry, 2009, v. 81 n. 9, p. 3676-3682en_HK
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dc.description.abstractMatrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) was applied to the direct analysis of melamine cyanurate (MC). The three commonly used MALDI matrixes, namely, α-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA), sinapinic acid (SA), and 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHB), were able to desorb/ionize melamine from MC upon N2 laser irradiation, with CHCA showing the highest detection sensitivity in the positive mode. Only DHB and SA were able to desorb/ionize cyanuric acid from MC in the negative mode but with remarkably lower sensitivity. The method is able to detect melamine unambiguously from a small amount of MC (down to 12.5 μg) spiked into urine and was successfully applied for the rapid and sensitive detection of melamine in urine stones/residues of the samples collected from patients clinically confirmed of having kidney stones associated with the consumption of melamine-tainted food products. The urine matrix resulted in interfering ion peaks and suppressed the ion intensity of melamine, while a cleanup process consisting of simply washing with water eliminated such interference and enhanced the ion intensity. The merit of the method is simplicity in sample preparation. The analytical time of the method for high-throughput analysis from the time of sample treatment to analysis is less than 7 minutes per sample, with sensitive detection of the presence of melamine in the urine stones/residues of the patient samples. © 2009 American Chemical Society.en_HK
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Chemical Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://pubs.acs.org/acen_HK
dc.relation.ispartofAnalytical Chemistryen_HK
dc.subject.meshChilden_US
dc.subject.meshFood Contaminationen_US
dc.subject.meshHumansen_US
dc.subject.meshKidney Calculi - Etiology - Urineen_US
dc.subject.meshSensitivity And Specificityen_US
dc.subject.meshSpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionizationen_US
dc.subject.meshTriazines - Analysis - Chemistry - Urineen_US
dc.titleAnalysis of melamine cyanurate in urine using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometryen_HK
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