Liquid Chromatography Coupled to High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry for the Confirmation of Caribbean Ciguatoxin-1 as the Main Toxin Responsible for Ciguatera Poisoning Caused by Fish from European Atlantic Coasts

Type Article
Date 2020-04
Language English
Author(s) Estevez Pablo1, Sibat ManoellaORCID2, Leão-Martins José Manuel1, Reis Costa Pedro3, Gago-Martínez Ana1, Hess PhilippORCID2
Affiliation(s) 1 : Biomedical Research Center (CINBIO), Department of Analytical and Food Chemistry, University of Vigo, Campus Universitario de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain
2 : Ifremer, DYNECO, Laboratoire Phycotoxines, Rue de l’Île d’Yeu, 44311 Nantes, France
3 : IPMA—Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere, Av. Brasília, 1449-006 Lisbon, Portugal
Source Toxins (2072-6651) (MDPI AG), 2020-04 , Vol. 12 , N. 4 , P. 267 (7p.)
DOI 10.3390/toxins12040267
WOS© Times Cited 23
Keyword(s) ciguatoxins, HRMS, Q-TOF, ciguatera poisoning, C-CTX1, fragmentation pathways
Abstract

Ciguatera poisoning (CP) is a common seafood intoxication mainly caused by the consumption of fish contaminated by ciguatoxins. Recent studies showed that Caribbean ciguatoxin-1 (C-CTX1) is the main toxin causing CP through fish caught in the Northeast Atlantic, e.g., Canary Islands (Spain) and Madeira (Portugal). The use of liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) combined with neuroblastoma cell assay (N2a) allowed the initial confirmation of the presence of C-CTX1 in contaminated fish samples from the abovementioned areas, nevertheless the lack of commercially available reference materials for these particular ciguatoxin (CTX) analogues has been a major limitation to progress research. The EuroCigua project allowed the preparation of C-CTX1 laboratory reference material (LRM) from fish species (Seriola fasciata) from the Madeira archipelago (Portugal). This reference material was used to implement a liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) for the detection of C-CTX1, acquisition of full-scan as well as collision-induced mass spectra of this particular analogue. Fragmentation pathways were proposed based on fragments obtained. The optimized LC-HRMS method was then applied to confirm C-CTX1 in fish (Bodianus scrofa) caught in the Selvagens Islands (Portugal).

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Estevez Pablo, Sibat Manoella, Leão-Martins José Manuel, Reis Costa Pedro, Gago-Martínez Ana, Hess Philipp (2020). Liquid Chromatography Coupled to High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry for the Confirmation of Caribbean Ciguatoxin-1 as the Main Toxin Responsible for Ciguatera Poisoning Caused by Fish from European Atlantic Coasts. Toxins, 12(4), 267 (7p.). Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins12040267 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00624/73630/