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Studies on bile acids: The microquantitative separation of cellular bile acids by gas-liquid chromatography.

ABSTRACT: 1. A method is described for the quantitative isolation of bile acids from cellular material. Homogenates of rat liver are freeze-dried and extracted exhaustively with 95% (v/v) ethanol containing 0.1% (v/v) of aq. ammonia (sp.gr. 0.88) and purified by anion-exchange chromatography on Amberlyst A-26. 2. The extracted bile acid conjugates are subjected to either of two hydrolytic procedures, one involving chemical and the other enzymic agents. A unique feature in this study is the introduction of an enzyme, a clostridial peptide-bond hydrolase, for the rapid cleavage of bile acid conjugates, replacing the classical drastic chemical hydrolysis with strong alkali. 3. After hydrolysis, free bile acids are methylated and converted into their trifluoroacetates for final determination by gas-liquid chromatography on a triple component column, FS-1265-SE30-NGS. 4. For the purpose of identification of peaks, bile acid methyl esters are converted into their trimethylsilyl ethers by allowing the methyl esters to react with a new and potent silyl donor, bis(trimethylsilyl)acetamide. 5. The technique affords us a means of studying the metabolism of bile acids at the cellular and subcellular levels in tissues.

SUBMITTER: Okishio T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1270311 | biostudies-other | 1967 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Project description:Bile acids (BAs) are cholesterol metabolites with important biological functions. They undergo extensive host-gut microbial co-metabolisms during the enterohepatic circulation, creating a vast structural diversity and resulting in great challenges to separate and detect them. Based on the bioanalytical reports in the past decade, this work developed three chromatographic gradient methods to separate a total of 48 BA standards on an ethylene-bridged hybrid (BEH) C18 column and high-strength silica (HSS) T3 column and accordingly unraveled the factors affecting the separation and detection of them by liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC-MS). It was shown that both the acidity and ammonium levels in mobile phases reduced the electrospray ionization (ESI) of BAs as anions of [M-H]-, especially for those unconjugated ones without 12-hydroxylation. It was also found that the retention of taurine conjugates on the BEH C18 column was sensitive to the strength of formic acid and ammonium in mobile phases. By using the volatile buffers with an equivalent ammonium level as mobile phases, we comprehensively demonstrated the effects of the elution pH value on the retention behaviors of BAs on both the BEH C18 column and HSS T3 column. Based on the retention data acquired on a C18 column, we presented the ionization constants (pK a) of various BAs with the widest coverage beyond those of previous reports. When we made attempts to establish the structure-retention relationships (SRRs) of BAs, the lack of discriminative structural descriptors for BA stereoisomers emerged as the bottleneck problem. The methods and results presented in this work are especially useful for the development of reliable, sensitive, high-throughput, and robust LC-MS bioanalytical protocols for the quantitative metabolomic studies. Graphical Abstract Nonlinear curve fitting of capacity factors and elution pH value for the separation of common unconjugated bile acids.

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