酸预处理增强非向的血清和血代谢
Tereza Kacerova1, Elisabete Pires1, Abigail Dixon1
1Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K.
Analytical chemistry
|October 7, 2025
概括
在乙基蛋白沉之前,将甲状酸 (FA) 添加到血和血清中,可以改善非向的代谢. 这种增强的样本制备提高了生物标志物发现的可重复性和检测灵敏度.
科学领域:
- 生物化学 生物化学
- 分析化学 分析化学
- 临床研究 临床研究
背景情况:
- 使用液态染色体质谱法 (LC-MS) 的非向代谢分析对临床研究至关重要.
- 缺乏标准化的样本准备,影响研究结果.
研究的目的:
- 为了优化样品准备的非目标代谢学.
- 为了提高使用LC-MS的血和血清分析的分析性能.
主要方法:
- 血清和血样本在乙尼特 (MeCN) 蛋白沉之前先用1%的甲酸 (FA) 进行预处理.
- 分析是使用逆相液态色谱-质谱法 (RPLC-MS) 进行的.
- 使用多变量建模 (OPLS-DA) 来评估样本队列.
主要成果:
- 在正负电离模式下,FA预处理显著提高了样品制备的可重复性和信号强度.
- 在两个独立的血清队列中观察到改善的多变量建模,具有更高的分类准确度,灵敏度和特异性.
- 增强的性能归因于破坏蛋白质代谢物相互作用和稳定不稳定的代谢物.
结论:
- 酸预处理血和血清可提高非向RPLC-MS代谢物中的可复制性和检测灵敏度.
- 这种优化的方法为临床和转化代谢学提供了优势,改善了生物标志物发现和代谢表型.
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