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Potential of monitoring isotopologues by quantitative gas chromatography with time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry for metabolomic assay
Author(s) -
Wang Yi,
Hu Haiyan,
Su Yue,
Zhang Fang,
Guo Yinlong
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of separation science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.72
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1615-9314
pISSN - 1615-9306
DOI - 10.1002/jssc.201501137
Subject(s) - isotopologue , mass spectrometry , metabolomics , chromatography , chemistry , time of flight mass spectrometry , gas chromatography–mass spectrometry , gas chromatography , organic chemistry , molecule , ion , ionization
Because of the extreme complexity of metabolomic samples, the effectiveness of quantitative gas chromatography with time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry depends substantially on the expansion of the linear dynamic range. Facing the existence of numerous saturated detector signals, a data processing method based on monitoring isotopologues has been developed. The monoisotopic ion kept the high mass spectrometry sensitivity, and the less abundant isotopologue ions extended the linear dynamic range. This alternative method was proved to extend the linear dynamic range to five orders of magnitude successfully and overcome the quantitative problems induced by the ion detector saturation. Finally, to validate the applicability, the method was applied to a metabolomic assay of Alzheimer's disease. Comparing with the traditional monoisotopic method, the use of monitoring isotopologues helped us to discover an additional eight metabolites with significant difference and to conduct a more reliable principal component analysis as well. The results demonstrated that monitoring isotopologues in quantitative gas chromatography with time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry could improve the authenticity of metabolomic analysis.