× 250mm, Alltech, Deerfield, IL, USA) with Shimadzu HPLC system
(Shimadzu, Kyoto, Japan). The column was developed with a linear gradient using
acetonitrile and water with 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid at a flow rate of 0.8
mL/min. For the first 5 minutes, the ratio of acetonitrile was maintained at 5%,
and it was changed linearly from 5% to 90% over 5–25 min and from 90% to
100% over 25–30 min. The detection wavelength was 320 nm.
MS and tandem MS were performed on an Agilent 1260/6460 Triple-Quadrupole LC/MS
system (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA, USA) with the electrospray ionization source.
The high resolution MS analysis was performed on an Aligent 1200 HPLC system and
6520 QTF-MS system (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA, USA). The mass spectrometer
scanned from m/z = 100–1500 in negative ion mode.