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  • Title: HPLC analysis of quinolinic acid, a NAD biosynthesis intermediate, after fluorescence derivatization in an aqueous matrix.
    Author: Xia C, Dang Y, Brown OR.
    Journal: Microbios; 1998; 94(379):167-81. PubMed ID: 9853379.
    Abstract:
    Quinolinic acid (2,3-pyridine dicarboxylic acid), a biological intermediate in nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) biosynthesis in microbes and mammals and a brain excitotoxin, is not fluorescent nor electrochemically active and its detection sensitivity by UV absorption is comparatively low. Quinolinic acid was successfully derivatized in water-based samples by monodansylcadaverine, a fluorescence tag, and analysed by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). No extraction procedure was needed and quinolinic acid was activated by water-soluble carbodiimide and derivatized under mild conditions. As little as 3 pmol (500 pg) of quinolinic acid in 5 microliter of artificial cerebrospinal fluid sample volume could be derivatized and detected at a signal to noise ratio of 3:1. Thus, detection on a mass basis by HPLC after fluorescence derivatization is about 300 times as sensitive as direct determination of quinolinic acid by UV absorbance (500 pg vs 150 ng). A variety of activators, fluorescent tags and reaction solvents and conditions were tested but found to be less effective.
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