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DOI: 10.1039/A809019J (Paper) Reference Section for: J. Environ. Monit., 1999, 1, 163-168

Use of quadrupole GC-MS and ion trap GC-MS-MS for determining 3-hydroxy fatty acids in settled house dust: relation to endotoxin activity

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Anita Saraf, Ju-Hyeong Park, Donald K. Milton and Lennart Larsson

Abstract

Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) using a quadrupole instrument and GC-tandem MS (GC-MS-MS) using an ion trap instrument were applied to determine 3-hydroxy fatty acids (3-OH FAs) with 10-18 carbon chain lengths, specific components of the endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS) of Gram-negative bacteria, in 30 house dust samples. The two methods provided similar detection sensitivity for methyl ester/trimethylsilyl derivatives of the 3-OH FAs and allowed these acids to be distinguished from co-eluting 2-OH FA derivatives. The correlation coefficients between endotoxin activity (Limulus test) and the combined amounts of 3-OH C10, 3-OH C12, and 3-OH C14 were 0.60 and 0.61 when using GC-MS and GC-MS-MS, respectively. The superior selectivity of GC-MS-MS was illustrated in analyses of sub-milligram amounts of dust, where the chromatograms achieved by GC-MS were difficult to interpret due to a high background and several closely eluting compounds. GC-MS-MS is therefore preferable to GC-MS for determining 3-OH FAs in minute (sub-milligram) amounts of dust.

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