Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais (LNE), Department of Biomedical and Inorganic Chemistry, 1 rue Gaston Boissier, 75015 Paris, France.
Anal Chim Acta. 2010 Jan 11;657(2):100-7. doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2009.10.037.
In this paper, two different methods are for the first time systematically compared for the determination of selenium in human serum selenoalbumin (SeAlb). Firstly, SeAlb was enzymatically hydrolyzed and the resulting selenomethionine (SeMet) was quantified using species-specific isotope dilution (SSID) with reversed phase-HPLC (RP-HPLC) hyphenated to (collision/reaction cell) inductively coupled plasma-quadrupole mass spectrometry (CRC ICP-QMS). In order to assess the enzymatic hydrolysis yield, SeAlb was determined as an intact protein by affinity-HPLC (AF-HPLC) coupled to CRC ICP-QMS. Using this approach, glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and selenoprotein P (SelP) (the two selenoproteins present in serum) were also determined within the same chromatographic run. The levels of selenium associated with SeAlb in three serum materials, namely BCR-637, Seronorm level 1 and Seronorm level 2, obtained using both methods were in a good agreement. Verification of the absence of free SeMet, which interferes with the SeAlb determination (down to the amino acid level), in such materials was addressed by analyzing the fraction of GPx, partially purified by AF-HPLC, using RP-HPLC (GPx only) and size exclusion-HPLC (SE-HPLC) coupled to CRC ICP-QMS. The latter methodology was also used for the investigation of the presence of selenium species other than the selenoproteins in the (AF-HPLC) SelP and SeAlb fractions; the same selenium peaks were detected in both control and BCR-637 serum with a difference in age of ca. 12 years. It is also for the first time that the concentrations of selenium associated with SeAlb, GPx and SelP species in such commercially available serums (only certified or having indicative levels of total selenium content) are reported. Such indicative values can be used for reference purposes in future validation of speciation methods for selenium in human serum and/or inter-laboratory comparisons.
本文首次系统地比较了两种不同的方法,用于测定人血清白蛋白(SeAlb)中的硒。首先,通过酶解 SeAlb,并用特异性同位素稀释法(SSID)结合反相高效液相色谱(RP-HPLC)与(碰撞/反应池)电感耦合等离子体质谱(CRC ICP-QMS)联用定量其中的硒代蛋氨酸(SeMet)。为了评估酶解产率,我们通过亲和高效液相色谱(AF-HPLC)与 CRC ICP-QMS 联用,将 SeAlb 作为完整蛋白进行测定。使用这种方法,我们还在同一色谱运行中测定了血清中的两种硒蛋白——谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶(GPx)和硒蛋白 P(SelP)。两种方法测定的三种血清样品(BCR-637、Seronorm level 1 和 Seronorm level 2)中与 SeAlb 相关的硒水平基本一致。通过分析部分经 AF-HPLC 纯化的 GPx 用 RP-HPLC(仅 GPx)和尺寸排阻高效液相色谱(SE-HPLC)与 CRC ICP-QMS 联用的方法,验证了在这些材料中,与 SeAlb 测定有关的游离 SeMet(低至氨基酸水平)不存在。后一种方法也用于研究(AF-HPLC)SelP 和 SeAlb 级分中除硒蛋白以外的硒物种的存在;在对照和 BCR-637 血清中,都检测到了相同的硒峰,年龄相差约 12 岁。这也是首次报道这些市售血清(仅具有认证或总硒含量指示水平)中与 SeAlb、GPx 和 SelP 物种相关的硒浓度。这些指示值可用于未来人类血清中硒形态分析方法的验证或实验室间比较的参考。