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  • Title: Determination of microcystins in water using integrated solid-phase microextraction with microbore high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray quadruple time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
    Author: Zhao YY, Hrudey S, Li XF.
    Journal: J Chromatogr Sci; 2006 Jul; 44(6):359-65. PubMed ID: 16884592.
    Abstract:
    The development of a technique combining solid-phase microextraction (SPME) with microbore high-performance liquid chromatography (micro-HPLC)-tandem quadrupole time-of-flight (QTOF) mass spectrometry (MS) for determination of dissolved microcystins in water is reported. Several important parameters affecting the efficiency of SPME extraction of microcystins are investigated. A microbore C18 column HPLC coupled with tandem QTOF-MS with information-dependent acquisition (IDA) is developed to effectively analyze microcystins in microliter volumes of SPME extracts. The micro-HPLC-QTOF-MS with IDA technique provides comprehensive information, including a survey chromatogram (total ion chromatogram), full scan mass spectrum, and product ion scan mass spectra at different collision energies for individual analytes, which allows for both identification and quantitation in the same run. Linear calibration curves of microcystin standard [microcystin (MC)-arginine (R)R] 1-100 microg/L and of microcystin standard [MC-leucine (L)R] 1-250 microg/L are obtained with a correlation coefficient of 0.996. The combination of SPME with HPLC-QTOF-MS and IDA offers limits of detection of 0.6 pg for MC-RR and 1.6 pg for MC-LR. Analysis of spiked lake-water samples shows a recovery of > 86% for MC-RR and > 70% for MC-LR. This technique requires small sample volumes, minimizes the use of organic solvents, and provides sensitive and information-rich analysis of unknown samples.
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