Supercritical fluid extraction as a preparation method for mass spectrometry of dried blood spots

Atsuki Matsubara; Yoshihiro Izumi; Shin Nishiumi; Makoto Suzuki; Takeshi Azuma; Eiichiro Fukusaki; Takeshi Bamba; Masaru Yoshida

doi:10.1016/j.jchromb.2014.08.013

Supercritical fluid extraction as a preparation method for mass spectrometry of dried blood spots

J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2014 Oct 15:969:199-204. doi: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2014.08.013. Epub 2014 Aug 17.

Authors

Atsuki Matsubara¹, Yoshihiro Izumi², Shin Nishiumi¹, Makoto Suzuki¹, Takeshi Azuma¹, Eiichiro Fukusaki², Takeshi Bamba³, Masaru Yoshida⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan.
² Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
³ Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. Electronic address: bamba@bio.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp.
⁴ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan; The Integrated Center for Mass Spectrometry, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan; Division of Metabolomics Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan. Electronic address: myoshida@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.

PMID: 25178194
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2014.08.013

Abstract

The potential of supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) as a preparation method for mass spectrometry of dried blood spots (DBS) was examined. SFE is generally used for the extraction of hydrophobic compounds, but hydrophilic metabolites such as amino acids, amines, and nucleic-acid-related metabolites could be extracted by adding a low level of methanol as a modifier. Under the optimized conditions, over 200 metabolites were detected from a dried serum spot, of which over 160 metabolites could be analyzed stably (RSD <20%). These results show that SFE is an effective extraction method of metabolites with a wide range of polarity in DBS.

Keywords: Dried blood spot (DBS); Mass spectrometry (MS); Metabolite; Metabolome analysis; Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE).

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Amino Acids / blood
Chromatography, Supercritical Fluid / methods*
Dried Blood Spot Testing / methods*
Humans
Lipids / blood
Metabolome
Metabolomics / methods
Organic Chemicals / blood
Pressure
Reproducibility of Results
Tandem Mass Spectrometry / methods*
Temperature

Substances

Amino Acids
Lipids
Organic Chemicals