PMID- 37311562 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230628 LR - 20230702 IS - 1520-6882 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2700 (Print) IS - 0003-2700 (Linking) VI - 95 IP - 25 DP - 2023 Jun 27 TI - Real-Time Volatile Metabolomics Analysis of Dendritic Cells. PG - 9415-9421 LID - 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c00516 [doi] AB - Dendritic cells (DCs) actively sample and present antigen to cells of the adaptive immune system and are thus vital for successful immune control and memory formation. Immune cell metabolism and function are tightly interlinked, and a better understanding of this interaction offers potential to develop immunomodulatory strategies. However, current approaches for assessing the immune cell metabolome are often limited by end-point measurements, may involve laborious sample preparation, and may lack unbiased, temporal resolution of the metabolome. In this study, we present a novel setup coupled to a secondary electrospray ionization-high resolution mass spectrometric (SESI-HRMS) platform allowing headspace analysis of immature and activated DCs in real-time with minimal sample preparation and intervention, with high technical reproducibility and potential for automation. Distinct metabolic signatures of DCs treated with different supernatants (SNs) of bacterial cultures were detected during real-time analyses over 6 h compared to their respective controls (SN only). Furthermore, the technique allowed for the detection of (13)C-incorporation into volatile metabolites, opening the possibility for real-time tracing of metabolic pathways in DCs. Moreover, differences in the metabolic profile of naìˆve and activated DCs were discovered, and pathway-enrichment analysis revealed three significantly altered pathways, including the TCA cycle, alpha-linolenic acid metabolism, and valine, leucine, and isoleucine degradation. FAU - Arnold, Kim AU - Arnold K AD - University Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB), 4056 Basel, Switzerland. AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland. FAU - Dehio, Philippe AU - Dehio P AD - Department of Biomedicine, Immunobiology, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Lotscher, Jonas AU - Lotscher J AD - Department of Biomedicine, Immunobiology, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Singh, Kapil Dev AU - Singh KD AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5682-0708 AD - University Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB), 4056 Basel, Switzerland. AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland. FAU - Garcia-Gomez, Diego AU - Garcia-Gomez D AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5753-2962 AD - Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Food Science, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain. FAU - Hess, Christoph AU - Hess C AD - Department of Biomedicine, Immunobiology, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland. AD - Department of Medicine, CITIID, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0AW, United Kingdom. FAU - Sinues, Pablo AU - Sinues P AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5602-2880 AD - University Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB), 4056 Basel, Switzerland. AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland. FAU - Balmer, Maria L AU - Balmer ML AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0356-6352 AD - Department of Biomedicine, Immunobiology, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland. AD - Department of Biomedical Research (DBMR), University of Bern, 3008 Bern, Switzerland. AD - University Clinic for Diabetes, Endocrinology, Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, Inselspital, 3010 Bern, Switzerland. AD - Diabetes Center Bern (DCB), 3010 Bern, Switzerland. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20230613 PL - United States TA - Anal Chem JT - Analytical chemistry JID - 0370536 SB - IM MH - *Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization/methods MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - *Metabolomics/methods MH - Metabolome MH - Dendritic Cells PMC - PMC10308329 COIS- The authors declare the following competing financial interest(s): P.S. is cofounder of Deep Breath Intelligence A.G. (Switzerland), which develops breath-based diagnostic tools. K.D.S. is a consultant for Deep Breath Intelligence A.G. (Switzerland). EDAT- 2023/06/14 01:10 MHDA- 2023/06/28 06:42 PMCR- 2023/06/29 CRDT- 2023/06/13 19:42 PHST- 2023/06/28 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/06/14 01:10 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/06/13 19:42 [entrez] PHST- 2023/06/29 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c00516 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anal Chem. 2023 Jun 27;95(25):9415-9421. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c00516. Epub 2023 Jun 13.