Green Microfluidic Method for Sustainable and High-Speed Analysis of Basic Amino Acids in Nutritional Supplements

Autor: Iva Pukleš, Csilla Páger, Nikola Sakač, Bojan Šarkanj, Dean Marković, Marija Kraševac Sakač, Marija Jozanović
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Molecules, Vol 29, Iss 23, p 5554 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1420-3049
DOI: 10.3390/molecules29235554
Popis: Amino acids (AAs) have broad nutritional, therapeutic, and medical significance and thus are one of the most common active ingredients of nutritional supplements. Analytical strategies for determining AAs are high-priced and often limited to methods that require modification of AA polarity or incorporation of an aromatic moiety. The aim of this work was to develop a new method for the determination of L-arginine, L-ornithine, and L-lysine on low-cost microchip electrophoresis instrumentation conjugated with capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection. A solution consisting of 0.3 M acetic acid and 1 × 10−5 M iminodiacetic acid has been identified as the optimal background electrolyte, ensuring the shortest possible analysis time. The short migration times of amino acids (t ≤ 64 s) and method simplicity resulted in high analysis throughput with high precision and linearity (R2≥ 0.9971). The limit of detection values ranged from 0.15 to 0.19 × 10−6 M. The accuracy of the proposed method was confirmed by recovery measurements. The results were compared with CE-UV-VIS and HPLC-DAD methods and showed good agreement. This work represents the first successful demonstration of the ME-C4D analysis of L-arginine, L-ornithine, and L-lysine in real samples.
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