Antibiotics are used for treatment or prevention of bacterial infections. Lincosamide antibiotics analysed in the scope of this master's thesis were lincomycin and clindamycin.
The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine the possibility of the in vitro production of the metabolites and oxidation products of antibiotic drug clindamycin using electrochemistry coupled to mass spectrometry which would represent much cheaper way of acquiring metabolites as analytical standard metabolites on the market are very expensive and also the basis for further research on the activity of the metabolites or their side effects.
Clindamycin is a chlorinated highly biologically active semisynthetic lincosamide derivate with higher in vivo and in vitro activity than lincomycin. When absorbed, the compound is metabolized mainly to the oxidized product clindamycin sulfoxide and to a lesser extent to N-desmethyl clindamycin. There is a contradiction in the articles as some claim the metabolites are active and others that metabolites are inactive compounds.
Mass spectrometry was used to obtain mass spectrum data of clindamycin. Additionally, tandem mass spectrometry was performed by selecting the peaks obtained from mass spectrum of clindamycin and fragmenting them to further extent.
The Roxy electrochemical setup was used to produce clindamycin oxidation products in vitro. Results showed that at higher scan rates the time of voltage gradient was shorter. Switch of electrode from boron doped diamond electrode to glassy carbon electrode showed that glassy carbon electrode gave better results in our case.
Further, direct current of 1 V was applied. Additionally, commercially available metabolites were examined by mass spectrometry coupled to electrochemistry to compare the results. The results show that we successfully produced N-desmethyl clindamycin and to a lesser extent clindamycin sulfoxide. Mass spectrometry coupled with electrochemistry technique was performed for lincomycin as well. We obtained the mass spectrum which has, comparing to clindamycin, no chlorine isotope peak around base peak. We did not compare lincomycin results with analytical standard metabolites. All data obtained were introduced in R Scripts in R Studio program.
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