Transthyretin as a target of alkylation and a potential biomarker for sulfur 
mustard poisoning: Electrophoretic and mass spectrometric identification and 
characterization

Schmeisser, Wolfgang; Lueling, Robin; Steinritz, Dirk; Thiermann, Horst; Rein, Theo; John, Harald

doi:10.1002/dta.3146

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Transthyretin as a target of alkylation and a potential biomarker for sulfur mustard poisoning: Electrophoretic and mass spectrometric identification and characterization

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Rein, Theo
Dept. Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Max Planck Society;

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Schmeisser, W., Lueling, R., Steinritz, D., Thiermann, H., Rein, T., & John, H. (2021). Transthyretin as a target of alkylation and a potential biomarker for sulfur mustard poisoning: Electrophoretic and mass spectrometric identification and characterization. DRUG TESTING AND ANALYSIS. doi:10.1002/dta.3146.

引用: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-2D0B-A

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For the verification of exposure to the banned blister agent sulfur mustard (SM) and the better understanding of its pathophysiology, protein adducts formed with endogenous proteins represent an important field of toxicological research. SM and its analogue 2-chloroethyl ethyl sulfide (CEES) are well known to alkylate nucleophilic amino acid side chains, for example, free-thiol groups of cysteine residues. The specific two-dimensional thiol difference gel electrophoresis (2D-thiol-DIGE) technique making use of maleimide dyes allows the staining of free cysteine residues in proteins. As a consequence of alkylation by, for example, SM or CEES, this staining intensity is reduced. 2D-thiol-DIGE analysis of human plasma incubated with CEES and subsequent matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (tandem) mass-spectrometry, MALDI-TOF MS(/MS), revealed transthyretin (TTR) as a target of alkylating agents. TTR was extracted from SM-treated plasma by immunomagnetic separation (IMS) and analyzed after tryptic cleavage by microbore liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization high-resolution tandem-mass spectrometry (mu LC-ESI MS/HR MS). It was found that the Cys(10)-residue of TTR present in the hexapeptide C(-HETE)PLMVK was alkylated by the hydroxyethylthioethyl (HETE)-moiety, which is characteristic for SM exposure. It was shown that alkylated TTR is stable in plasma in vitro at 37 degrees C for at least 14 days. In addition, C(-HETE)PLMVK can be selectively detected, is stable in the autosampler over 24 h, and shows linearity in a broad concentration range from 15.63 mu M to 2 mM SM in plasma in vitro. Accordingly, TTR might represent a complementary protein marker molecule for the verification of SM exposure.