Journal
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 1014, Issue -, Pages 107-115Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2015.12.037
Keywords
SPE; HILIC-MS; Cofactor; Targeted metabolome; Energy metabolism; Isobutanol production
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31170782, 31401150, 31370136]
- Key Projects in Tianjin Science & Technology Pillar Program [14ZCZDSY00062]
- Bairenjihua Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Quantification of energy and redox cofactors is of great value to synthetic biologists to infer the balance of energy metabolism in engineered microbial strains and assess each strain's potential for further improvement. Most currently used methods for intracellular cofactor measurement suffer from incomplete coverage, low reproducibility, suboptimal sensitivity or specificity. In this study, we described an SPE-HILIC/MS approach for simultaneous determination of six cofactor targets (ATP, ADP, NAD, NADH, NADP, NADPH) in Escherichia coli cells. Sufficient linearity, precision and metabolite recoveries of this new approach justified its reliability in targeted cofactor quantification. Our approach was then compared with conventional enzymatic assays to demonstrate its superior performance. We applied the SPE-HILIC/MS approach to profile shift of cofactor balances in several engineered E. coli strains with varying isobutanol production. Our cofactor analysis clearly revealed that optimal energy fitness was achieved in the highest-yield strain through combined modulation of a transhydrogenase and a NAD(+) kinase. Apart from the targeted cofactors, the SPE enrichment procedure also allowed for confident identification of 39 groups of polar metabolites mainly involved in central carbon metabolism in E. coli cells. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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