Abstract

Poster Presentations

Day 2: Thursday, May 19　　Poster Room（Icho）

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Improvement of the Ionization Methods of Steroid Hormones and Application to the Imaging Mass Spectrometry

(¹Nara Med. Univ., ²Kyoto Univ., ³NIBIO, ⁴Ibaraki Pref. Health Univ., ⁵Kansai Univ., ⁶Yokohama Natl. Univ., ⁷Osaka Kyoiku Univ.)
^oOsamu Hatano¹, Katsuhiro Isozaki², Hiroshi Takemori³, Ken Ohnishi⁴, Taisuke Ihozaki⁵, Shouta Morimoto⁶, Yuko Ichiyanagi⁶, Hideya Kawasaki⁵, Masanao Katagiri⁷, Ryuichi Arakawa⁵, Norio Kurumatani¹

Mammalian steroid hormones are synthesized mainly in adrenal cortex and gonads (testis and ovary) and function as glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids, and male- or female-hormones. These steroid hormones are synthesized by several cytochrome P450s and hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases. Since the ionization efficiency of steroid hormons is generally low, we tried to improve the ionization methods of steroid hormones mainly for the application to MALDI mass spectrometry. Several derivatization reagents and metal nanoparticles including commercially available- and newly synthesized-materials were useful for the high efficiency detection of steroid hormones. We also applied theses reagents to Imaging Mass Spectrometry of steroid hormones using mainly FT-ICR MS (Bruker: Solarix).
This work was supported by the Collaborative Research Program of Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University (grant #2015-103, 2016-102).