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While validated methods for the determination of amino thiol levels in plasma or serum are available, there is a dearth of validated methods for their measurement in tissue. A robust and reproducible ultra-high performance liquid chromatography method has been validated for the simultaneous determination of concentrations of cysteine (Cys), cysteinylglycine (CysGly), homocysteine (Hcys), \u03b3-glutamylcysteine (\u03b3-GluCys), and glutathione (GSH) in pig tissue. Tissue was homogenized and deproteinized with trichloroacetic acid. Amino thiols in the acid-soluble fraction of the tissue homogenate were reduced with tris-(2-carboxyethyl)-phosphine hydrochloride and derivatized with 4-(aminosulfonyl)-7-fluoro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole (ABD-F). Amino thiols were resolved under reversed-phase gradient conditions on a Waters Acquity BEH C18 column (1.7 \u00b5m, 2.1 mm \u00d7 100 mm) within 4.5 min and detected with fluorescence. The peak area ratio of analyte to 2-mercaptopropionylglycine internal standard, added to external calibration standards and samples, was used to develop linear calibration curves. Linear calibrations were performed over the range of 15\u20131,500 nmol\/g for Cys, CysGly, Hcys, and \u03b3-GluCys and 150\u201315,000 nmol\/g for GSH. Linearity, lower limit of detection, lower limit of quantitation, accuracy, precision, sample stability, and carryover were evaluated. We demonstrate excellent linearity for all analytes within their respective concentration range (r2 &amp;gt; 0.99) and excellent recovery of amino thiols from spiked samples (mean \u00b1 SD across tissues; Cys, 100.0 \u00b1 2.2%; CysGly, 95.4 \u00b1 5.1%; Hcys, 96.6 \u00b1 2.0%; \u03b3-GluCys, 102.2 \u00b1 2.7%; and GSH, 100.6 \u00b1 3.3%). The intra-day and inter-day precisions did not exceed 5% and 10%, respectively. Repeated freezing and thawing of tissue homogenate did not affect measured amino thiol concentrations, ABD-labeled amino thiols were stable for 1 wk after derivatization, and there was no sample carryover across consecutive injections. We confirm the identity of each ABD-labeled amino thiol with Orbitrap mass spectrometry. Finally, we apply the method to the determination of amino thiol concentrations in liver and jejunum tissues in newly weaned pigs and show that despite elevated Cys and maintained GSH concentrations in liver, both \u03b3-GluCys and GSH decline in jejunum of weaned pigs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/jas\/skad017","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,11]],"date-time":"2023-01-11T22:06:32Z","timestamp":1673474792000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Technical note: simultaneous determination of amino thiols in pig tissue by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"101","author":[{"given":"Marko","family":"Rudar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal Sciences, Auburn University , Auburn, AL 36849 , USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alexandra","family":"Gachman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal Sciences, Auburn University , Auburn, AL 36849 , USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Melissa","family":"Boersma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Director, Mass Spectrometry Lab, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University , Auburn, AL 36849 , USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023022016125895100_","first-page":"201","article-title":"Cellular redox: a modulator of intestinal epithelial cell proliferation","volume":"18","author":"Aw","year":"2003","journal-title":"News Physiol. 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