{"title":"Simultaneous analysis of 7 key mevalonate pathway intermediates using liquid chromatography-orbitrap mass spectrometry.","authors":"Jiani Li, Min Ju, Danni Zheng, Huihui Wan, Yuming Sun, Jinfeng Zhao, Lina Zhou, Qingxin Yin, Wei Kang, Yuming Song, Song Xue","doi":"10.1016/j.ab.2025.115816","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The mevalonate (MVA) pathway is a central metabolic route that converts mevalonate into isoprenoids, which are of crucial significance in various cellular processes. As no systematic approach had been developed and validated for the simultaneous estimation of these intermediate metabolites within the MVA pathway. In this research, a method was developed for the concurrent determination of 7 key intermediate metabolites in the MVA pathway based on ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) coupled with a quadrupole/electrostatic field orbitrap high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS). The developed UPLC-HRMS method based on the hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) separation mode was successfully applied to the quantitative analysis of relevant key intermediate metabolites in wild type Escherichia coli (E. coli) BL21 (DE3) and the recombinant E. coli BL21(DE3) system constructed by introducing all the genes of the MVA pathway into the strain. The above results can offer a reference for further studies on the MVA pathway.</p>","PeriodicalId":7830,"journal":{"name":"Analytical biochemistry","volume":" ","pages":"115816"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Analytical biochemistry","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2025.115816","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
The mevalonate (MVA) pathway is a central metabolic route that converts mevalonate into isoprenoids, which are of crucial significance in various cellular processes. As no systematic approach had been developed and validated for the simultaneous estimation of these intermediate metabolites within the MVA pathway. In this research, a method was developed for the concurrent determination of 7 key intermediate metabolites in the MVA pathway based on ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) coupled with a quadrupole/electrostatic field orbitrap high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS). The developed UPLC-HRMS method based on the hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) separation mode was successfully applied to the quantitative analysis of relevant key intermediate metabolites in wild type Escherichia coli (E. coli) BL21 (DE3) and the recombinant E. coli BL21(DE3) system constructed by introducing all the genes of the MVA pathway into the strain. The above results can offer a reference for further studies on the MVA pathway.
期刊介绍:
The journal''s title Analytical Biochemistry: Methods in the Biological Sciences declares its broad scope: methods for the basic biological sciences that include biochemistry, molecular genetics, cell biology, proteomics, immunology, bioinformatics and wherever the frontiers of research take the field.
The emphasis is on methods from the strictly analytical to the more preparative that would include novel approaches to protein purification as well as improvements in cell and organ culture. The actual techniques are equally inclusive ranging from aptamers to zymology.
The journal has been particularly active in:
-Analytical techniques for biological molecules-
Aptamer selection and utilization-
Biosensors-
Chromatography-
Cloning, sequencing and mutagenesis-
Electrochemical methods-
Electrophoresis-
Enzyme characterization methods-
Immunological approaches-
Mass spectrometry of proteins and nucleic acids-
Metabolomics-
Nano level techniques-
Optical spectroscopy in all its forms.
The journal is reluctant to include most drug and strictly clinical studies as there are more suitable publication platforms for these types of papers.