title: U13C cell extract of Pichia pastoris--a powerful tool for evaluation of sample preparation in metabolomics.
abstract: Quantitative metabolic profiling is preceded by dedicated sample preparation protocols. These multistep procedures require detailed optimization and thorough validation. In this work, a uniformly (13)C-labeled (U(13)C) cell extract was used as a tool to evaluate the recoveries and repeatability precisions of the cell extraction and the extract treatment. A homogenous set of biological replicates (n = 15 samples of Pichia pastoris) was prepared for these fundamental experiments. A range of less than 30 intracellular metabolites, comprising amino acids, nucleotides, and organic acids were measured both in monoisotopic (12)C and U(13)C form by LC-MS/MS employing triple quadrupole MS, reversed phase chromatography, and HILIC. Recoveries of the sample preparation procedure ranging from 60 to 100% and repeatability precisions below 10% were obtained for most of the investigated metabolites using internal standardization approaches. Uncertainty budget calculations revealed that for this complex quantification task, in the optimum case, total combined uncertainty of 12% could be achieved. The optimum case would be represented by metabolites, easy to extract from yeast with high and precise recovery. In other cases the total combined uncertainty was significantly higher.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Division of Analytical Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences-BOKU, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Neubauer
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Haberhauer-Troyer
authors.forename: Kristaps
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Klavins
authors.forename: Hannes
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Russmayer
authors.forename: Matthias G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Steiger
authors.forename: Brigitte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gasser
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sauer
authors.forename: Diethard
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mattanovich
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hann
authors.forename: Gunda
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Koellensperger
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D002247:Carbon Isotopes / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid / Q000379:methods; D055432:Metabolomics / Q000379:methods*; D009711:Nucleotides / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D010843:Pichia / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D013194:Staining and Labeling / Q000379:methods*; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D009711:Nucleotides