Development and Performance of a Gas Chromatography−Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Analysis for Large-Scale Nontargeted Metabolomic Studies of Human Serum

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Abstract

A method for the preparation and GC-TOF-MS analysis of human serum samples has been developed and evaluated for application in long-term metabolomic studies. Serum samples were deproteinized using 3:1 methanol/serum, dried in a vacuum concentrator, and chemically derivatized in a two-stage process. Samples were analyzed by GC-TOF-MS with a 25 min analysis time. In addition, quality control (QC) samples were used to quantify process variability. Optimization of chemical derivatization was performed. Products were found to be stable for 30 h after derivatization. An assessment of within-day repeatability and within-week reproducibility demonstrates that excellent performance is observed with our developed method. Analyses were consistent over a 5 month period. Additional method testing, using spiked serum samples, showed the ability to define metabolite differences between samples from a population and samples spiked with metabolites standards. This methodology allows the continuous acquisition and application of data acquired over many months in long-term metabolomic studies, including the HUSERMET project (http://www.husermet.org/).

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