Rapid identification of chemical profile in Gandou decoction by UPLC-Q-TOF-MSE coupled with novel informatics UNIFI platform
- Author:
Xu LI
1
;
Yi LIU
2
;
Hongfei WU
;
Huan WU
;
Xiaochuang LIU
;
Zhou AN
Author Information
1. The Experimental Research Center, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei 230038, China.
2. The Experimental Research Center, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei 230038, China.;Waters Corporation (China), Shanghai 201206, China.
- Keywords:
Gandou decoction;
UPLC-Q-TOF-MSE;
UNIFI informatics platform;
Chemical constituents
- From:
Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis
2020;10(1):35-48
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Gandou decoction (GDD), a well-known traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) formula, has been widely used for decades to treat Wilson's disease (WD) in China due to its remarkable clinical effects. However, the chemical constituents of GDD still remain unclear because of their complexity. In this work, a reliable and sensitive strategy based on ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-Q-TOF-MSE) and UNIFI informatics platform was applied to investigate the chemical components in GDD. In total, 96 compounds including anthraqui-nones, alkaloids, protostane triterpenoids, flavonoids, triterpenoid saponins, tannins, curcuminoids, etc, were identified or tentatively characterized from GDD by comparing their retention time, accurate mass within 5 ppm error and MSE fragmentation patterns. Among them, eleven compounds were confirmed unambiguously with reference standards. Representative compounds in different chemical structure types were analyzed in fragmentation patterns and characteristic ions. Moreover, to better understand the chemical contribution of individual herbs to the whole decoction, the corresponding each herb in GDD was also detected. This study developed a rapid method for characterizing the chemical constitu-ents in GDD, which could not only be used for chemical standardization and quality control, but also be helpful for further research of GDD in vivo.
