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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Anal Chem. 2010 Jan 15;82(2):548–558. doi: 10.1021/ac901790q

Table 2.

Reproducibility of retention times across the entire calibration curves for AccQ•Tag derivatized physiological amino acid standards, and isotopically labeled amino acids, analyzed by UPLC-MS/MS. Experimental conditions were the same as in Table 1.

Amino acid MRM transition Function # Average RT (min) STD CV (%)
Hydroxy-L-proline 302.11 > 171 1 1.61 0.02 1.08
Histidine (ring 2-13C) 327.21 > 171 1 1.71 0.02 0.09
L-Histidine 326.21 > 171 1 1.70 0.01 0.68
1-Methyl-histidine 340.21 > 171 1 2.06 0.02 0.74
Taurine 296.11 > 171 1 2.19 0.02 0.79
3-Methyl-histidine 340.21 > 171 1 2.30 0.01 0.5
Serine-2,3,3-d3 279.11 > 171 1,2 2.60 0.01 0.38
L-Serine 276.11 > 171 1,2 2.63 0.01 0.47
Arginine (guanido-15N2) 347.36 > 171 2 3.99 0.01 0.14
L-Arginine 345.21 > 171 2 2.86 0.02 0.58
Glycine-d5 248.25 > 171 2 2.99 0.01 0.19
Glycine 246.08 > 171 2 3.01 0.01 0.33
L-Carnosine 397.21 > 171 2 2.84 0.01 0.39
Ethanolamine 232.09 > 171 2 3.16 0.01 0.27
L-Asparagine-15-N2 305.27 > 171 2 3.39 0.01 0.17
L-Aspartic acid 304.11 > 171 2 3.38 0.01 0.27
L-Sarcosine 260.17 > 171 2 3.83 0.01 0.13
Citrulline-ureido-13C 347.35 > 171 2 3.99 0.01 0.14
L-Glutamic acid-2,4,4-d3 321.11 > 171 2 3.96 0.01 0.15
L-Glutamic acid 318.11 > 171 2 3.97 0.01 0.19
L-Citrulline 346.21 > 171 2 3.99 0.01 0.15
β-Alanine 260.17 > 171 2,3 4.20 0.01 0.18
Threonine-d5 295 > 171 3 4.43 0.01 0.13
L-Threonine (13C, 15N) 295.11 > 171 3 4.43 0.01 0.13
L-Threonine 290.11 > 171 3 4.43 0.01 0.13
L-Alanine 260.1 > 171 3 4.86 0.01 0.15
D-L-Alanine-2,3,3,3-d4 264.11 > 171 3 4.86 0.01 0.12
γ-Amino-n-butyric acid 274.11 > 171 3 5.03 0.01 0.12
Amino adipic acid 332 > 171 3 5.24 0.00 0.08
D-L-β-Aminoisobutyric acid 274.11 > 171 3 5.48 0.01 0.27
Proline-2,5,5-d3 289 > 171 3 5.49 0.01 0.11
L-Proline 286.16 > 171 3 5.51 0.03 0.58
δ-hydroxylysine 33.21 > 171 3 5.23 0.01 0.23
L-α-Amino-n-butyric acid 274.11 > 171 3 6.09 0.02 0.33
Ornitine-3,3,4,4,5,5-d6 479.22 > 171 4 6.19 0.02 0.37
L-Ornitine 303.21 > 171 4 6.20 0.01 0.08
L-Lysine 317.21 > 171 4 6.60 0.01 0.19
4-Hydroxyphenyl-2,6-d2-alanine-2-d1-01 355.22 > 171 4 6.68 0.01 0.09
Tyrosine 352.21 > 171 4 6.69 0.01 0.01
Methionine-methyl-d3 323.13 > 171 4 6.83 0.01 0.08
L-Methionine 320.21 > 171 4 6.86 0.05 0.7
Valine-d8 296.11 > 171 4 6.95 0.01 0.08
L-Valine 288.21 > 171 4 6.98 0.01 0.09
L-Isoleucine 302.21 > 171 5 7.73 0.02 0.19
Leucine-d10 312.24 > 171 5 7.78 0.01 0.07
L-Leucine 302.21 > 171 5 7.82 0.03 0.40
Phenyl-d5-alanine 341.21 > 171 5 7.92 0.02 0.26
Phenyl-alanine 336.21 > 171 5 7.92 0.01 0.12
Tryptophan-2′,4′,5′,6′,7′-d5(indole-d5)-01 380.21 > 171 5 8.01 0.01 0.07