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. 2011 Sep 15;83(18):7074-80.
doi: 10.1021/ac201267k. Epub 2011 Aug 18.

High-throughput, accurate mass metabolome profiling of cellular extracts by flow injection-time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Tobias Fuhrer  1 , Dominik Heer, Boris Begemann, Nicola Zamboni
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High-throughput, accurate mass metabolome profiling of cellular extracts by flow injection-time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Tobias Fuhrer et al. Anal Chem. .

Abstract

Direct injection of samples on high-resolving mass spectrometers is an effective way to maximize analytical throughput and yet allow analyte discrimination in complex samples by mass-to-charge ratio. We present a platform of flow injection electrospray-time-of-flight mass spectrometry to profile small molecules in >1400 biological extracts per day at native mass resolution. We comprehensively benchmark the performance with more than 5000 injections of chemically defined standards and Escherichia coli cellular extracts obtained from miniscale cultivations. For at least 90% of tested compounds, we attain a linear response over 3 decades of concentration, interday coefficient of variation of <20%, and a mass accuracy of <0.001 amu. In polar Escherichia coli fractions, we reproducibly detected >1500 distinct ions in each mode. The accurate mass and correlation analysis enabled one to assign with good confidence 400-800 ions to electrospray derivatives of metabolites listed in the genome-wide reconstruction of Escherichia coli metabolism. Hence, we attain a coverage of about one-quarter of the total number of compounds listed in the reconstruction. Finally, we present an exemplary screen with Escherichia coli deletion mutants to show the exquisite capacity of the platform to identify lesions in primary metabolism at high throughputs.

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