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. | 
| Year of Publication | :  0 | 
| Journal | :  Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) | 
| Volume | :  1730 | 
| Number of Pages | :  45-58 | 
| Date Published | :  2018 | 
| ISSN Number | :  1064-3745 | 
| URL | :  https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7592-1_3 | 
| DOI | :  10.1007/978-1-4939-7592-1_3 | 
| Short Title | :  Methods Mol Biol | 
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