The level of jaspine B was measured using a validated LC-MS/MS method [7 (
link)] in multiple reaction monitoring (MRM). The system was composed of liquid chromatography in tandem with
mass spectrometry (Shimadzu, Columbia, MD, USA) with a controller (CBM-20A), two binary pumps (
LC-30AD), an autosampler (
SIL-30AC), and an AB Sciex (Foster City, CA, USA) QTRAP 5500 quadrupole mass spectrometer in positive electrospray ionization mode (ESI). The chromatograms were monitored and integrated by the
Analyst 1.7.2 software (AB Sciex, Foster City, CA, USA).
LC separation was performed on an analytical reversed-phase column Kinetex
®C18 100 × 2.1 mm (1.7 μm) (Phenomenex, Torrance, CA, USA) by a combination of 0.1% formic acid in acetonitrile and water (85:15,
v/
v) in isocratic mode at a flow rate of 0.2 mL/min.
The positive ion ESI mass spectrometric parameters were as follows: capillary voltage; 5.5 kV, temperature; 250 °C, declustering potential (DP); 50 V, and collision cell exit potential (CXP); 15 V quantification was performed using MRM at
m/
z 299.8→270.1 (jaspine B), and
m/
z 336.1→320.0 (IS). Nitrogen was used as collision gas, and the collision energies were set at 30–40 eV. Calibration curves using peak height ratio (analyte over IS) were constructed over the range of 0.5 to 16 ng/mL in liposomes to measure jaspine B concentrations in liposomes.
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