Effect of ionic liquids as mobile phase additives on retention behaviors of G-quadruplexes in reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography

G-quadruplexes (G4s) play an important role in a variety of biological processes and have extensive application prospects. Due to the significance of G4s in physiology and biosensing, studies on G4s have attracted much attention, stimulating the development or improvement of methods for G4 structure...

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Published inJournal of Chromatography A Vol. 1715; p. 464604
Main Authors Wang, Ju, Qiao, Jun-Qin, Zheng, Wei-Juan, Lian, Hong-Zhen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands 25.01.2024
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Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid - methods
Chromatography, Reverse-Phase - methods
G-Quadruplexes
Ionic Liquids - chemistry
Reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography
Ionic liquids
Retention behaviors
G-quadruplexes
Retention mechanism
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Summary:G-quadruplexes (G4s) play an important role in a variety of biological processes and have extensive application prospects. Due to the significance of G4s in physiology and biosensing, studies on G4s have attracted much attention, stimulating the development or improvement of methods for G4 structures and polymorphism analysis. In this work, ionic liquids (ILs) were involved as mobile phase additives in reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) to analyse G4s with various conformations for the first time. How ILs affected the retention behaviors of G4s was investigated comprehensively. It was found that the addition of ILs markedly enhanced G4 retention, along with obvious amelioration on chromatographic peak shapes and separation. The influence of pH of mobile phase and types of ILs were also included in order to acquire an in-depth understanding. It appeared that the effect of ILs on G4 retention behaviors was the result of a combination of various interactions between G4s with the hydrophobic stationary phase and with the IL-containing mobile phase, where ion pair mechanism and enhanced hydrophobic interaction dominated. The findings of this work revealed that ILs could effectively improve the separation of G4s in RP-HPLC, which was conducive to G4 structural analysis, especially for G4s polymorphism elucidation.
ISSN:0021-9673
1873-3778
DOI:10.1016/j.chroma.2023.464604