LC-MS-Based Metabolomics of Biofluids Using All-Ion Fragmentation (AIF) Acquisition.
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| Abstract | :
The field of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based nontargeted metabolomics has advanced significantly and can provide information on thousands of compounds in biological samples. However, compound identification remains a major challenge, which is crucial in interpreting the biological function of metabolites. Herein, we present a LC-MS method using the all-ion fragmentation (AIF) approach in combination with a data processing method using an in-house spectral library. For the purposes of increasing accuracy in metabolite annotation, up to four criteria are used: (1) accurate mass, (2) retention time, (3) MS/MS fragments, and (4) product/precursor ion ratios. The relative standard deviation between ion ratios of a metabolite in a biofluid vs. its analytical standard is used as an additional metric for confirming metabolite identity. Furthermore, we include a scheme to distinguish co-eluting isobaric compounds. Our method enables database-dependent targeted as well as nontargeted metabolomics analysis from the same data acquisition, while simultaneously improving the accuracy in metabolite identification to increase the quality of the resulting biological information. |
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0
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| Journal | :
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
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| Volume | :
1730
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| Number of Pages | :
45-58
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| Date Published | :
2018
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| ISSN Number | :
1064-3745
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| URL | :
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7592-1_3
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| DOI | :
10.1007/978-1-4939-7592-1_3
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| Short Title | :
Methods Mol Biol
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