High performance liquid chromatography measurements of free amino acids were performed on a 1260 Infinity HPLC system equipped with a fluorescence detector (Agilent Technologies, Waldbronn, Germany) and a Poroshell HPH-C18 separation column (4.6 mm × 100 mm, particle size 2.7 mm; Agilent Technologies). Before measuring, ammonium was precipitated from the samples by a 1:1 dilution with sodium tetraphenylborate (250 mM). After vigorously mixing and centrifugation (5 min, 13,000 rpm, 4°C), the ammonium-free samples were transferred in HPLC vials. The HPLC method was used as described previously (Trautwein et al., 2016 (link); Dannheim et al., 2017b (link)) with the minor modification that mobile phase A was changed to 25 mM sodium acetate (pH 6.5).
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