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  • Title: Determination of genotoxic phenylhydrazine agaritine in mushrooms using liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry.
    Author: Kondo K, Watanabe A, Iwanaga Y, Abe I, Tanaka H, Nagaoka MH, Akiyama H, Maitani T.
    Journal: Food Addit Contam; 2006 Nov; 23(11):1179-86. PubMed ID: 17071520.
    Abstract:
    A new method with good sensitivity and specificity for detecting and quantifying genotoxic hydrazines, agaritine and 4-(hydroxymethyl)phenylhydrazine (HMPH), was developed using liquid chromatography-electrospray tandem mass spectrometry (MS). Synthetic agaritine and HMPH were structurally assigned by 1H-, 13C- and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis (HMBC and HMQC), high-resolution fast-atom bombardment (HR-FAB) MS and time of flight (TOF) MS. The polar molecule agaritine was separated on an ODS column using 0.01% AcOH-MeOH (99:1, v/v) as an eluent with a simple solid-phase extraction cleanup. There were no interference peaks for any of the mushrooms. Agaricus spp. contained 1247 and 2017 microg g-1 agaritine. Other species of mushroom had no agaritine. Recoveries of agaritine from spiked mushroom samples were 60.3-114%. Intra-day precision values were 5.5 and 4.2%, and the inter-day precision values were acceptable (15.0 and 23.0%), as agaritine is unstable. The limit of quantification was 0.003 microg g-1. Even a trace amount of agaritine in mushrooms can, therefore, be determined using this method. We also directly analysed HMPH, an active free hydrazine form of genotoxic agaritine, and obtained direct evidence of its absence from mushrooms. A precursor ion scan confirmed that agaritine derivatives, which could exert similar toxicity, were absent. The results indicate that this specific and sensitive analytical method for detecting and quantifying agaritine and its derivatives could help evaluate the risk of mushroom hydrazines to humans.
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