mL solution containing 20 mM HEPES, pH 7.4, 100 mM NaCl, 10 mM MgCl2, 50 mM sodium bicarbonate or sodium 13C-bicarbonate,
0.30 mM CAIR, 1 mM
(0 or 0.20 μM) was incubated at 25 °C. The reaction was
initiated by the addition of CAIR. At a desired time, a 10 μL
portion of the reaction solution was added to 190 μL of ice-cold
methanol and kept at 4 °C. A 10-μL portion of this methanol-diluted
solution was injected to a Phenomenex Luna HILIC column (Phenomenex
00B-4449-Y0; 3 μm beads, 200 angstrom pore size, 50 mm ×
3 mm) connected to an Agilent 1250 HPLC and an Agilent 6250 ESI-qTOF
mass spectrometer (flow rate 0.3 mL/min at 20 °C; solvent A:
acetonitrile with 10 mM triethylammonium bicarbonate, solvent B: water
with 10 mM triethylammonium bicarbonate). Negative ion mass spectra
were acquired using an Agilent 6545 quadrupole-time-of-flight (qTOF)
mass spectrometer and analyzed using Agilent MassHunter Workstation
software package. Mass spectral peak areas corresponding to M–H
ions were calculated, allowing up to 2 ppm errors in m/z values.