Practical aspects of uniform stable isotope labeling of higher plants for heteronuclear NMR-based metabolomics

Methods Mol Biol. 2007:358:273-86. doi: 10.1007/978-1-59745-244-1_15.

Abstract

Analytical methods for probing plant metabolism are taking on new significance in the era of functional genomics, metabolomics, and systems biology. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is becoming a key technology in plant metabolomics. Stable isotope labeling of cultured cells and higher organisms has been especially promising in that it allows the use of advanced heteronuclear NMR methodologies through a combination of in vivo and in vitro measurements. This new approach provides much better resolution of the metabolite mixture signals in the multidimensional NMR spectra than does the conventional one-dimensional 1H-NMR previously used in plant metabolomics. In this chapter, we describe the practical aspects of two key NMR technologies: uniform stable labeling of plants and in vitro heteronuclear NMR.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Arabidopsis / growth & development
  • Arabidopsis / metabolism*
  • Carbon Isotopes / metabolism*
  • Cell Line
  • Culture Media
  • Nitrogen Isotopes / metabolism*
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular / methods*
  • Perilla / growth & development
  • Perilla / metabolism*
  • Photosynthesis
  • Plant Roots / metabolism
  • Soil / analysis

Substances

  • Carbon Isotopes
  • Culture Media
  • Nitrogen Isotopes
  • Soil