A novel tertiary prep-HPLC method for the isolation of single amino acids for AMS-radiocarbon measurement

Journal of Chromatography B: Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences

Volumn 1058, Issue , 2017, Pages 85-92

  Fernandes, Ricardo ^a,b   Koudelka, Tomas ^b   Tholey, Andreas ^b   Dreves, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accelerator mass spectrometry; Amino acids; Bone collagen; HPLC; Radiocarbon

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; COLLAGEN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEPARATION;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; AMINO ACID SEPARATIONS; BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; BONE COLLAGEN; HPLC; HYDROPHOBIC MOLECULES; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; RADIOCARBON;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACETONITRILE; ALANINE; AMINO ACID; CARBON 14; CARBON MONOXIDE; COLLAGEN; HYDROXYPROLINE; PHOSPHORIC ACID; PROLINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEPHANT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOLOCENE; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PALAEOLOXODON ANTIQUUS; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TAURINE CATTLE; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CHEMISTRY; FOSSIL; PROCEDURES; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COLLAGEN; ELEPHANTS; FOSSILS; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

EID: 85019934233     PISSN: 15700232     EISSN: 1873376X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2017.05.017     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Longin, R., New method of collagen extraction for radiocarbon dating. Nature 230 (1971), 241–242.
2. Tuross, N., Fogel, M.L., Hare, P.E., Variability in the preservation of the isotopic composition of collagen from fossil bone. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 52 (1988), 929–935.
3. Fülöp, R.-H., Heinze, S., John, S., Rethemeyer, J., Ultrafiltration of bone samples is neither the problem nor the solution. Radiocarbon 55 (2013), 491–500.
4. Marom, A., McCullagh, J.S.O., Higham, T.F.G., Sinitsyn, A.A., Hedges, R.E.M., Single amino acid radiocarbon dating of Upper Paleolithic modern humans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 109 (2012), 6878–6881.
5. Boudin, M., Boeckx, P., Vandenabeele, P., Van Strydonck, M., Improved radiocarbon dating for contaminated archaeological bone collagen silk, wool and hair samples via cross-flow nanofiltrated amino acids. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 27 (2013), 2039–2050.
6. Boudin, M., Boeckx, P., Vandenabeele, P., Van Strydonck, M., An archaeological mystery revealed by radiocarbon dating of cross-flow nanofiltrated amino acids derived from bone collagen, silk, and hair: case study of the bishops Baldwin I and Radbot II from Noyon-Tournai. Radiocarbon 56 (2014), 603–617.
7. 14C ages. J. Irish Archaeol. 9 (1988), 151–165.
8. 14C reservoir effect at the Stone Age sites in the Iron Gates gorge. Radiocarbon 43 (2001), 453–460.
9. Fernandes, R., Rinne, C., Nadeau, M.-J., Grootes, P., Towards the use of radiocarbon as a dietary proxy: establishing a first wide-ranging radiocarbon reservoir effects baseline for Germany. Environ. Archaeol. 21 (2015), 285–294.
10. 13C values of pig bone lipids and amino acids. Int. J. Osteoarchaeol. 13 (2003), 54–65.
11. Ho, T.Y., Marcus, L.F., Berger, R., Radiocarbon dating of petroleum-Impregnated bone from tar pits at rancho La Brea, California. Science 164 (1969), 1051–1052.
12. Fernandes, R., Nadeau, M.J., Grootes, P.M., Macronutrient-based-model for dietary carbon routing in bone collagen and bioapatite. Archaeol. Anthropol. Sci. 4 (2012), 291–301.
13. McGrane, M.M., Carbohydrate Metabolism-Synthesis and Oxidation. 2000, WB Saunders Company, Philadelphia.
14. Choy, K., Nash, S.H., Kristal, A.R., Hopkins, S., Boyer, B.B., O'Brien, D.M., The carbon isotope ratio of alanine in red blood cells is a new candidate biomarker of sugar-sweetened beverage intake. J. Nutr. 143 (2013), 878–884.
15. Jim, S., Jones, V., Ambrose, S.H., Evershed, R.P., Quantifying dietary macronutrient sources of carbon for bone collagen biosynthesis using natural abundance stable carbon isotope analysis. Br. J. Nutr. 95 (2006), 1055–1062.
16. Nalawade-Chavan, S., McCullagh, J., Hedges, R., Bonsall, C., Boroneant, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Higham, T., Compound specific radiocarbon dating of essential and non-essential amino acids: towards determination of dietary reservoir effects in humans. Radiocarbon 55 (2013), 709–719.
17. 14C ages of the pacific rat Rattus exulans. Radiocarbon 40 (1998), 601–613.
18. McCullagh, J.S.O., Marom, A., H.E.M, Radiocarbon dating of individual amino acids from archaeological bone collagen. Radiocarbon 52 (2010), 620–634.
19. Nalawade-Chavan, S., Zazula, G., Brock, F., Southon, J., MacPhee, R., Druckenmiller, P., New single amino acid hydroxyproline radiocarbon dates for two problematic American Mastodon fossils from Alaska. Quat. Geochronol. 20 (2014), 23–28.
20. Hollund, H.I., Ariese, F., Fernandes, R., Jans, M.M.E., Kars, H., Testing and alternative high-throughput tool for investigating bone diagenesis: FTIR in attenuated total reflection (ATR) mode*. Archaeometry 55 (2012), 507–532.
21. Nadeau, M.J., et al. The Leibniz-Labor AMS facility at the Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany. Nucl Instruments Methods Phys. Res. B 123 (1997), 22–30.
22. Nadeau, M.-J., Grootes, P.M., Schleicher, M., Hasselberg, P., Rieck, A., Bitterling, M., Sample throughput and data quality at the Leibniz-Labor AMS facility. Radiocarbon 40 (1998), 239–246.
23. Reimer, P.J., Brown, T.A., Reimer, R.W., Discussion: reporting and calibration of post-bomb C-14 data. Radiocarbon 46 (2004), 1299–1304.
24. Trueman, C.N.G., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Tuross, N., Weiner, S., Mineralogical and compositional changes in bones exposed on soil surfaces in Amboseli National Park, Kenya: diagenetic mechanisms and the role of sediment pore fluids. J. Archaeol. Sci. 31 (2004), 721–739.
25. van Klinken, G.J., Bone collagen quality indicators for palaeodietary and radiocarbon measurements. J. Archaeol. Sci. 26 (1999), 687–695.
26. 14C measurements. Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. Sect. B Beam Interact. Mater. Atoms 123 (1997), 208–213.
27. Donahue, D.J., et al. Status of the NSF-Arizona AMS laboratory. Nucl. Instruments Methods Phys. Res. Sect. B Beam Interact. with Mater. Atoms 123 (1997), 51–56.
28. Ruff, M., Szidat, S., Gäggeler, H.W., Suter, M., Synal, H.-A., Wacker, L., Gaseous radiocarbon measurements of small samples. Nucl. Instruments Methods Phys. Res. Sect. B Beam Interact. with Mater. Atoms 268 (2010), 790–794.
29. Kang, M.-J., Tholey, A., Heinzle, E., Quantitation of low molecular mass substrates and products of enzyme catalyzed reactions using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 14 (2000), 1972–1978.
30. Rogalewicz, F., Hoppilliard, Y., Ohanessian, G., Fragmentation mechanisms of α-amino acids protonated under electrospray ionization: a collisional activation and ab initio theoretical study1. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 195–196 (2000), 565–590.