伏馬鐮孢毒素(Fumonisins,FB)是串珠鐮刀菌(Fusarium moniliforme)所產生的二次代謝產物,主要汙染作物為玉米及其相關產品,會造成豬隻出現類似感冒症狀,使的投藥錯誤,造成巨大損失。不僅如此伏馬鐮孢毒素與人類的食道癌也極為相關。 伏馬鐮孢毒素中以FB1的毒素最強且量最大(70%),目前衛生署公告的穀物中FB1的分析方法為:使用一次性免疫親合管柱(NT$≧300元,成本較高)進行萃取且須經衍生反應後再以HPLC-FLD偵測。但此方法對於沒被汙染的農作物樣品中仍然要支出同樣高的成本,並不符合綠色環保的概念。因此,在這篇論文中,我們應用基質輔助雷射脫附游離/飛行時間質譜法(MALDI-TOF MS)開發出一個具有低成本,高靈敏度且可大量篩選FB1毒素的分析方法來輔助官方方法的不足。 本方法中的前處理只需要以甲醇和水萃取分析物後離心過濾即可以MALDI-TOF/MS來進行偵測。當只以α-CHCA為基質時,只能在穀物(玉米)中測到1 ppm的Fumonisins,因此不具可行性,但在添加Cs+ 後可增加分析靈敏度1000倍,偵測極限達到1 ppb。此法所需成本低(NT≦10)且偵測時間小於1分鐘,可節省不必要的材料及時間的浪費,相當符合當前綠色化學的環保概念。
Fumonisins are secondary metabolites of Fusarium moniliforme, mainly in corn and corn-based products. It may cause flu-like symptoms on pig and result in wrong treatment. Moreover, fumonisins are associated with human esophageal cancer. Fumonisin B1 (FB1) is the most toxic and most natural abundant type (70%) in Fumonisins. The official analysis method for FB1 is using disposable immunoaffinity column (NT$≧300) for extraction then following derivatization before HPLC-FLD measurement. However, the cost of the specific column and the time consuming are not good for high throughput analysis, especially for the non-contaminated samples. If there is a low cost and high throughput screening methods to filter out most uncontaminated samples, a lot of time consuming and cost would be avoided. Thus, we develop a low-cost, high sensitivity screening method for FB1 by MALDI-TOF MS to achieve this goal. In this method, the pretreatment just need solvent (MeOH/H2O) extraction following centrifugation, then detected by MALDI-TOF/MS using α-CHCA as the matrix and Cs+ to increase sensitivity to 1 ppb. The detection limit would be only 1 ppm without Cs+. The cost of sample preparation for each sample is less than NT$ 10.0 dollars and analysis time for each sample is only 1 min or less. This is in line with current environmental protection concept of green chemistry.