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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
21
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-10-13
pubmed:abstractText
The identification of metabolites is almost exclusively done with liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MSMS) and despite the enormous progress in the development of these techniques and software for handling of data this is a time-consuming task. In this study the use of quadrupole time-of-flight (QTOF)-generated MS(E) and MS/MS data were compared with respect to rationalization of metabolites. In addition Mass-MetaSite, a semi-automated software for metabolite identification, was evaluated. The program combines the information from MS raw data, in the form of collision-induced dissociation spectra, with a prediction of the site of metabolism in order to assign the structure of a metabolite. The aim of the software is to mimic the rationalization of fragment ions performed by a biotransformation scientist in the process of structural elucidation. For this evaluation, metabolite identification in human liver microsomes was accomplished for 19 commercially available compounds and 15 in-house compounds. The results were very encouraging and for 96% of the metabolites the same structures were assigned using MS(E) compared with MSMS acquired data. The possibility of using MS(E) could considerably reduce the analysis time. Moreover, Mass-MetaSite performed well and the correct assigned structure, compared to manual inspection of the data, was picked in the first rank in ?80% of the cases. In conclusion MS(E) could be successfully used for metabolite identification in order to reduce time of analysis and Mass-MetaSite could alleviate the work of a biotransformation scientist and decrease the workload by assigning the structure for a majority of the metabolites.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1097-0231
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3127-38
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Enhanced metabolite identification with MS(E) and a semi-automated software for structural elucidation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article