Ion-Pairing Chromatography and Amine Derivatization Provide Complementary Approaches for the Targeted LC-MS Analysis of the Polar Metabolome



Sagi-Kiss, Virag, Li, Yufeng, Carey, Matthew R, Grover, Sarah J, Siems, Karsten, Cirulli, Francesca, Berry, Alessandra, Musillo, Chiara, Wilson, Ian D ORCID: 0000-0002-8558-7394, Want, Elizabeth J
et al (show 1 more authors) (2022) Ion-Pairing Chromatography and Amine Derivatization Provide Complementary Approaches for the Targeted LC-MS Analysis of the Polar Metabolome. JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH, 21 (6). pp. 1428-1437.

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Abstract

Liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry is a key metabolomics/metabonomics technology. Reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) is very widely used as a separation step, but typically has poor retention of highly polar metabolites. Here, we evaluated the combination of two alternative methods for improving retention of polar metabolites based on 6-aminoquinoloyl-<i>N</i>-hydroxysuccinidimyl carbamate derivatization for amine groups, and ion-pairing chromatography (IPC) using tributylamine as an ion-pairing agent to retain acids. We compared both of these methods to RPLC and also to each other, for targeted analysis using a triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer, applied to a library of ca. 500 polar metabolites. IPC and derivatization were complementary in terms of their coverage: combined, they improved the proportion of metabolites with good retention to 91%, compared to just 39% for RPLC alone. The combined method was assessed by analyzing a set of liver extracts from aged male and female mice that had been treated with the polyphenol compound ampelopsin. Not only were a number of significantly changed metabolites detected, but also it could be shown that there was a clear interaction between ampelopsin treatment and sex, in that the direction of metabolite change was opposite for males and females.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: metabolomics, metabonomics, ion-pairing, ampelopsin, healthy aging, UPLC-MS, NMR spectroscopy, statistical heterospectroscopy
Divisions: Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 08 Feb 2023 14:57
Last Modified: 08 Feb 2023 14:58
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.2c00030
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3168272