Acquisition of Mass Spectrometry Data of Carotenoids: A Focus on Big Data Management

Antonio Pérez-Gálvez; Isabel Viera; María Roca

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-9952-1_10

Acquisition of Mass Spectrometry Data of Carotenoids: A Focus on Big Data Management

Methods Mol Biol. 2020:2083:135-144. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9952-1_10.

Authors

Antonio Pérez-Gálvez¹, Isabel Viera¹, María Roca²

Affiliations

¹ Food Phytochemistry Department, Instituto de la Grasa (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain.
² Food Phytochemistry Department, Instituto de la Grasa (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain. mroca@ig.csic.es.

PMID: 31745918
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9952-1_10

Abstract

Accurate determination of carotenoid profile in plant tissues and food samples requires the application of hyphenated analytical resources including HPLC with high-resolution hybrid mass spectrometers. The high analytical power of modern MS equipment means the generation of Big Data resulting from the independent and complementary physicochemical properties of the target compounds that requires a complex processing to unravel the results. The present protocol describes a complete pipeline methodology for high-throughput analysis of carotenoids based on mass spectrometry (MS). After an exhaustive extraction, the workflow includes the acquisition of HPLC-hr-MS and MS² spectra assisted step by step by specific post-processing software.

Keywords: APCI; Carotenoids; Exact mass; HPLC-MS; Isotopic pattern; Mass spectrometry; Product ions; Software; Tandem mass spectra; qQ-TOF.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Big Data*
Carotenoids / chemistry*
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
Data Management
Data Mining
Mass Spectrometry*
Software
Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Substances

Carotenoids