A rapid microwave-assisted derivatization of bacterial metabolome samples for gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis |
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Authors: | Manuel Liebeke |
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Institution: | Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany |
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Abstract: | Analysis of metabolome samples by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry requires a comprehensive derivatization method to afford quantitative and qualitative information of a complex biological sample. Here we describe an extremely time-effective microwave-assisted protocol for the commonly used methoxyamine and N-methyl-N-trimethylsilylfluoracetamide silylation method of primary metabolites. Our studies show that microwave irradiation can decrease the sample preparation time from approximately 120 min to 6 min without loss of either qualitative or quantitative information for the tested synthetic metabolite mixtures and microbial-derived metabolome samples collected from Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus. Comparisons of metabolic fingerprints and selected metabolites show no noticeable differences compared with the commonly used heating block methods. |
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