Simultaneous Quantitative Analysis of Sphingoid Base 1-Phosphates in Biological Samples by o-Phthalaldehyde Precolumn Derivatization after Dephosphorylation with Alkaline Phosphatase
✍ Scribed by Jung-Kee Min; Hwan-Soo Yoo; Eun-Young Lee; Woo-Jin Lee; Yong-Moon Lee
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Volume
- 303
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-2697
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✦ Synopsis
This paper describes a simultaneous analytical method for the measurement of sphingoid base 1-phosphates and sphingoid bases from a variety of biological samples. This method consists of two steps of sample pretreatment: the enzymatic dephosphorylation of sphingoid base 1-phosphates by alkaline phosphatase (APase) and the subsequent analysis of o-phthalaldehyde (OPA) derivatives of the liberated sphingoid bases by HPLC. By introducing C17-sphingosine 1-phosphate and C17-sphingosine as internal standards, not only phytosphingosine 1-phosphate, sphingosine 1-phosphate, and sphinganine 1-phosphate but also phytosphingosine, sphingosine, and sphinganine present in a sample could be quantified in 12 min on a C18 reversed-phase column with a simple mobile phase of acetonitrile:deionized distilled water (90:10, v/v). With this HPLC method, we could reproducibly analyze the levels of sphingoid base 1-phosphates over a broad range of concentrations from 0.5 to 100.0 pmol from various biological samples including serum, cultured cells, and rat tissue homogenates. The conversion of sphingoid base 1-phosphates into sphingoid bases increased the stability of the OPA adducts. Thus, this indirect measurement of sphingoid base 1-phosphates increased the sensitivity and reproducibility of the method. This HPLC method was also used to measure the changes in the levels of sphingoid base 1-phosphates in cultured cells after treatment with 1,25-(OH)2D3, a sphingosine kinase activator, or with fumonisin B1, a sphinganine N-acyltransferase inhibitor.