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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Anthony OxleyORCiD, Philip Berry, Gordon Taylor, Dr Joe Cowell, Dr Michael HallORCiD, Professor John Hesketh, Professor Georg Lietz, Professor Alan Boddy
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Isotope dilution is currently the most accurate technique in humans to determine vitamin A status and bioavailability/bioconversion of provitamin A carotenoids such as β-carotene. However, limits of MS detection, coupled with extensive isolation procedures, have hindered investigations of physiologically-relevant doses of stable isotopes in large intervention trials. Here, a sensitive liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) analytical method was developed to study the plasma response from coadministered oral doses of 2 mg [13C10]β-carotene and 1 mg [13C10]retinyl acetate in human subjects over a 2 week period. A reverse phase C18 column and binary mobile phase solvent system separated β-carotene, retinol, retinyl acetate, retinyl linoleate, retinyl palmitate/retinyl oleate, and retinyl stearate within a 7 min run time. Selected reaction monitoring of analytes was performed under atmospheric pressure chemical ionization in positive mode at m/z 537→321 and m/z 269→93 for respective [12C]β-carotene and [12C] retinoids; m/z 547→330 and m/z 274→98 for [13C10]β-carotene and [13C5] cleavage products; and m/z 279→100 for metabolites of [13C10]retinyl acetate. A single one-phase solvent extraction, with no saponification or purification steps, left retinyl esters intact for determination of intestinally-derived retinol in chylomicrons versus retinol from the liver bound to retinol binding protein. Coadministration of [13C10]retinyl acetate with [13C10]β-carotene not only acts as a reference dose for inter-individual variations in absorption and chylomicron clearance rates, but also allows for simultaneous determination of an individual's vitamin A status.
Author(s): Oxley A, Berry P, Taylor GA, Cowell J, Hall MJ, Hesketh J, Lietz G, Boddy AV
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Lipid Research
Year: 2014
Volume: 55
Issue: 2
Pages: 319-328
Print publication date: 01/02/2014
Online publication date: 24/10/2013
Acceptance date: 16/10/2013
Date deposited: 19/01/2021
ISSN (print): 0022-2275
ISSN (electronic): 1539-7262
Publisher: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1194/jlr.D040204
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.D040204
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