Structure Elucidation of Unknown Metabolites in Metabolomics by Combined NMR and MS/MS Prediction

Author: Boiteau Rene M.   Hoyt David W.   Nicora Carrie D.   Kinmonth-Schultz Hannah A.   Ward Joy K.   Bingol Kerem  

Publisher: MDPI

E-ISSN: 2218-1989|8|1|8-8

ISSN: 2218-1989

Source: Metabolites, Vol.8, Iss.1, 2018-01, pp. : 8-8

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Abstract

We introduce a cheminformatics approach that combines highly selective and orthogonal structure elucidation parameters; accurate mass, MS/MS (MS2), and NMR into a single analysis platform to accurately identify unknown metabolites in untargeted studies. The approach starts with an unknown LC-MS feature, and then combines the experimental MS/MS and NMR information of the unknown to effectively filter out the false positive candidate structures based on their predicted MS/MS and NMR spectra. We demonstrate the approach on a model mixture, and then we identify an uncatalogued secondary metabolite in Arabidopsis thaliana. The NMR/MS2 approach is well suited to the discovery of new metabolites in plant extracts, microbes, soils, dissolved organic matter, food extracts, biofuels, and biomedical samples, facilitating the identification of metabolites that are not present in experimental NMR and MS metabolomics databases.

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