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ArticleDrug testing and analysis2026

Isomer Composition Assessment of Synthetic Phosphatidylethanol by Collision-Induced and Ozone-Induced Dissociation Mass Spectrometry.

Matthias Bantle, Jackson O T Long, Samuel C Brydon, Reuben S E Young, Stephen J Blanksby, Wolfgang Weinmann, Marc Luginbühl

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Matthias BantleInstitute of Forensic Medicine Bern, Forensic Toxicology and Chemistry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9210-2802
Jackson O T LongCentral Analytical Research Facility and School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5007-9510
Samuel C BrydonCentral Analytical Research Facility and School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8939-0249
Reuben S E YoungMolecular Horizons and School of Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0620-3362
Stephen J BlanksbyCentral Analytical Research Facility and School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8560-756X
Wolfgang WeinmannInstitute of Forensic Medicine Bern, Forensic Toxicology and Chemistry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8659-1304
Marc LuginbühlInstitute for Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3111-0750

Funding

Adepa LifesciencesAustralian Research Council (ARC) DP190101486German Society for Traffic Medicine (DGVM)QUT
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The direct blood-alcohol biomarker phosphatidylethanol (PEth), especially its most abundant analogue 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-phosphatidylethanol (PEth 16:0/18:1) has gained increasing relevance in clinical and forensic applications for assessing alcohol consumption. Accurate quantification of PEth is essential to reliably differentiate between abstinence, moderate alcohol consumption and excessive alcohol intake. Measurement accuracy of PEth 16:0/18:1 by well-established liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) approaches such as multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) can be confounded by the presence of the regioisomer 1-oleoyl-2-palmitoyl-sn-phosphatidylethanol (PEth 18:1/16:0) in samples and synthetic reference standards. To address this measurement uncertainty, we conducted a new assessment of the isomeric composition of six currently available reference materials from four suppliers using collision-induced dissociation/ozone-induced dissociation (CID/OzID). Examination of these synthetic compounds found a high degree of regioisomeric purity of > 95%. Thus verified, the relative abundance of two key LC-MS/MS transitions were compared across a range of collision energies for both reference materials and an exemplary set of 10 dried blood spot case samples. These findings suggest a significantly wider range of natural isomer distributions spanning both higher and lower regiochemical composition (88.8%-98.85%) than the reference materials but within a range that would not significantly impact clinical classification.

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GlycerophospholipidsTandem Mass SpectrometryAlcohol DrinkingBiomarkersHumansIsomerismLiquid Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryOzoneReference StandardsBiomarkersGlycerophospholipidsOzonephosphatidylethanolcollision‐induced dissociation/ozone‐induced dissociationglycerophospholipidliquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometryPEthphosphatidylethanolregioisomerssn‐positional isomers

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PMID41702380
PMCPMC13040422

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