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. 2024 Jul:256:112548.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2024.112548. Epub 2024 Apr 6.

Exploiting Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to reveal temperature, buffer and metal ions' role in neuromelanin (NM) synthesis by dopamine (DA) oxidative polymerization

Fabio Schifano  1 , Lisa Rita Magnaghi  2 , Enrico Monzani  3 , Luigi Casella  3 , Raffaela Biesuz  4
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Exploiting Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to reveal temperature, buffer and metal ions' role in neuromelanin (NM) synthesis by dopamine (DA) oxidative polymerization

Fabio Schifano et al. J Inorg Biochem. 2024 Jul.
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Abstract

Neuromelanin (NM) plays a well-established role in neurological disorders pathogenesis; the mechanism of action is still discussed and the investigations in this field are limited by NM's complex and heterogeneous composition, insolubility, and low availability from human brains. An alternative can be offered by synthetic NM obtained from dopamine (DA) oxidative polymerization; however, a deep knowledge of the influence of both physicochemical parameters (T, pH, ionic strength) and other compounds in the reaction media (buffer, metal ions, other catecholamines) on DA oxidation process and, consequently, on synthetic NM features is mandatory to develop reliable NM preparation methodologies. To partially fulfill this aim, the present work focuses on defining the role of temperature, buffer and metal ions on both DA oxidation rate and DA oligomer size. DA oxidation in the specific conditions is monitored by UV-Vis spectroscopy and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is run either on the raw spectra to model the background absorption increase, related to small DA oligomers formation, or on their first derivative to rationalize DA consumption. After having studied three case studies, 3-Way PCA is applied to directly evaluate the effect of temperature and buffer type on DA oxidation in the presence of different metal ions. Despite the proof-of-concept nature of the work and the number of compounds still to be included in the investigation, the preliminary results and the possibility to further expand the chemometric approach represent an interesting contribution to the field of in vitro simulation of NM synthesis.

Keywords: 3-WAY PCA; Chemometrics; Dopamine oxidation; Neurological disorders pathogenesis; PCA; Synthetic neuromelanin.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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