PMID- 22342183 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20121205 LR - 20231213 IS - 1873-3778 (Electronic) IS - 0021-9673 (Linking) VI - 1255 DP - 2012 Sep 14 TI - A novel approach to transforming a non-targeted metabolic profiling method to a pseudo-targeted method using the retention time locking gas chromatography/mass spectrometry-selected ions monitoring. PG - 228-36 LID - 10.1016/j.chroma.2012.01.076 [doi] AB - Non-targeted metabolic profiling is the most widely used method for metabolomics. In this paper, a novel approach was established to transform a non-targeted metabolic profiling method to a pseudo-targeted method using the retention time locking gas chromatography/mass spectrometry-selected ion monitoring (RTL-GC/MS-SIM). To achieve this transformation, an algorithm based on the automated mass spectral deconvolution and identification system (AMDIS), GC/MS raw data and a bi-Gaussian chromatographic peak model was developed. The established GC/MS-SIM method was compared with GC/MS-full scan (the total ion current and extracted ion current, TIC and EIC) methods, it was found that for a typical tobacco leaf extract, 93% components had their relative standard deviations (RSDs) of relative peak areas less than 20% by the SIM method, while 88% by the EIC method and 81% by the TIC method. 47.3% components had their linear correlation coefficient higher than 0.99, compared with 5.0% by the EIC and 6.2% by TIC methods. Multivariate analysis showed the pooled quality control samples clustered more tightly using the developed method than using GC/MS-full scan methods, indicating a better data quality. With the analysis of the variance of the tobacco samples from three different planting regions, 167 differential components (p<0.05) were screened out using the RTL-GC/MS-SIM method, but 151 and 131 by the EIC and TIC methods, respectively. The results show that the developed method not only has a higher sensitivity, better linearity and data quality, but also does not need complicated peak alignment among different samples. It is especially suitable for the screening of differential components in the metabolic profiling investigation. CI - Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Li, Yong AU - Li Y AD - CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China. FAU - Ruan, Qiang AU - Ruan Q FAU - Li, Yanli AU - Li Y FAU - Ye, Guozhu AU - Ye G FAU - Lu, Xin AU - Lu X FAU - Lin, Xiaohui AU - Lin X FAU - Xu, Guowang AU - Xu G LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20120202 PL - Netherlands TA - J Chromatogr A JT - Journal of chromatography. A JID - 9318488 RN - 0 (Ions) RN - 0 (Plant Extracts) RN - IY9XDZ35W2 (Glucose) SB - IM MH - Algorithms MH - Analysis of Variance MH - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry/*methods MH - Glucose/chemistry MH - Ions/analysis/chemistry MH - Metabolomics/*methods MH - Multivariate Analysis MH - Plant Extracts/analysis/chemistry MH - Plant Leaves/chemistry MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Software MH - Nicotiana/chemistry EDAT- 2012/02/22 06:00 MHDA- 2012/12/10 06:00 CRDT- 2012/02/21 06:00 PHST- 2011/11/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2012/01/25 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2012/01/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2012/02/21 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/02/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/12/10 06:00 [medline] AID - S0021-9673(12)00202-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.chroma.2012.01.076 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Chromatogr A. 2012 Sep 14;1255:228-36. doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2012.01.076. Epub 2012 Feb 2.