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Absolute Quantitation of Inositol Pyrophosphates by Capillary Electrophoresis Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry
Published on: August 13, 2021
There is no 'Conundrum' of InsP6
Robin F Irvine1, Simon J Bulley2, Miranda S Wilson3
1Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1PD, UK rfi20@cam.ac.uk.
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Indirect assays have claimed to quantify phytate (InsP6) levels in human biofluids, but these have been based on the initial assumption that InsP6 is there, an assumption that our more direct assays disprove. We have shown that InsP6 does not and cannot (because of the presence of an active InsP6 phosphatase in serum) exist in mammalian serum or urine. Therefore, any physiological effects of dietary InsP6 can only be due either to its actions in the gut as a polyvalent cation chelator, or to inositol generated by its dephosphorylation by gut microflora.
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