Ribonucleosides were separated using a
Luna Omega Polar (150 × 2.1 mm; particle size, 2.5 μm; pore size, 100 Å; Phenomenex, Torrance, CA) on an Agilent 1290 series HPLC system equipped with a diode array detector. Mobile phase A was 5 mM NH
4OAc (≥99%; HiPerSolv
CHROMANORM, VWR) adjusted to pH 5.3 with glacial acetic acid (≥99%, HiPerSolv
CHROMANORM, VWR), and mobile phase B was pure acetonitrile (LC-MS grade, purity ≥99.95; Roth). Gradient elution started with 98% A and increased to 10% B after 2 min, 30% B after 3 min, and 60% B after 3.5 min. Starting conditions are re-established at 4 min followed by 2 min of equilibration. The flow rate was 0.4 ml/min, and the column temperature was 30°C. The effluent from the column was directed through the DAD (diode array detector) before entering the Agilent 6490 Triple Quadrupole mass spectrometer in dynamic multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode. The MS was operated in positive-ion mode with the following parameters: electrospray ionization (ESI-MS, Agilent
Jetstream); fragmentor voltage, (set in tunefile to) 250 V; cell accelerator voltage, 2 V; N
2-gas temperature, 150°C; N
2-gas flow, 15 liters/min; nebulizer, 30 psi; sheath gas (N
2) temperature, 275°C; sheath gas flow, 11 liters/min; capillary, 2500 V; and nozzle voltage, 500 V. The instrument was operated in dynamic MRM mode with the method listed in table S2.
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