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NATURE PROTOCOLS
Volume 3, Issue 8, Pages 1299-1311Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.107
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- Beckman Foundation
- National Science Foundation-Dynamic Data-Driven Application System [CNS-0540181]
- CNS-0540181, American Heart Association [0635188N]
- National Science Foundation [MCB-0643859]
- National Institutes of Health [AI078063, GM071508]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R01AI078063] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [P50GM071508] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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This protocol provides a method for quantitating the intracellular concentrations of endogenous metabolites in cultured cells. The cells are grown in stable isotope-labeled media to near-complete isotopic enrichment and then extracted in organic solvent containing unlabeled internal standards in known concentrations. The ratio of endogenous metabolite to internal standard in the extract is determined using mass spectrometry (MS). The product of this ratio and the unlabeled standard amount equals the amount of endogenous metabolite present in the cells. The cellular concentration of the metabolite can then be calculated on the basis of intracellular volume of the extracted cells. The protocol is exemplified using Escherichia coli and primary human fibroblasts fed uniformly with C-13-labeled carbon sources, with detection of C-13-assimilation by liquid chromatography-tandem MS. It enables absolute quantitation of several dozen metabolites over similar to 1 week of work.
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