Identification of the urinary metabolites of glionitrin A in rats using ultra-performance liquid chromatography combined with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Glionitrin A (GN A) is a new diketopiperazine disulfide with an aromatic nitro group, which is isolated from the coculture of an Aspergillus fumigatus fungal strain and a Sphingomonas bacterial strain. After intravenous administration of GN A in rats, 13 urinary metabolites of GN A were identified using ultra-performance liquid chromatography/quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectroscopy (UPLC-QTOP-MS) analysis in conjunction with data processing...