A fast, sensitive, single-step colorimetric dipstick assay for quantifying ascorbic acid in urine

Add time:08/24/2019    Source:sciencedirect.com

The presence of ascorbate in human urine has been shown to be a useful dietary, fruit or vitamin C intake biomarker. More recently it has been discovered that ascorbate levels in urine can be used to facilitate the detection of precancerous colorectal polyps. While there are a number elaborate HPLC, MS or multi-step enzymatic “kit” methods to detect and quantify urinary ascorbate, these are time consuming and expensive. There are also a number of low-cost paper-based ascorbate detection dipsticks. However, the limits of detection and quantification accuracy for these dipsticks are not adequate for applications with human urine. To address these limitations, we have developed a fast, sensitive, single-step colorimetric assay that can be used to quantify ascorbate in urine and other biological fluids. The assay uses the tetrazolium salt, methylthiazolyldiphenyl-tetrazolium bromide (MTT), with the electron carrier phenazine methosulfate (PMS), in a chelated acidic phosphate-buffer to produce a vivid purple color in the presence of ascorbate. Confirmation of the performance of the assay and of its standard curve in human urine was also done using independent LC-MS/MS and NMR analyses. The lower limit of detection of the ascorbate dipstick assay described here was found to be 3.2 μM. The paper dipsticks are stable over a wide range of temperatures and can be stored for up to 150-days.

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