Journal
ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 425, Issue 2, Pages 183-188Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2012.03.020
Keywords
Metabolic flux analysis; GC-MS; C-13 labeling; Central metabolism; Brassica napus
Funding
- Conseil Regional de Picardie (France)
- European Union
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Metabolic flux analysis, using C-13 labeled substrates, has become a powerful methodology for quantifying intracellular fluxes. Most often, analysis is restricted to nuclear magnetic resonance or mass spectrometry measurement of C-13 label incorporation into protein amino acids. However, amino acid isotopomer distribution insufficiently covers the entire network of central metabolism, especially in plant cells with highly compartmented metabolism, and analysis of other metabolites is required. Analysis of label in saccharides provides complementary data to better define fluxes around hexose, pentose, and triose phosphate pools. Here, we propose a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method to analyze C-13 labeling in glucose and fructose moieties of sucrose, free glucose, fructose, maltose, inositol, and starch. Our results show that saccharide labeling for isotopomer quantification is better analyzed by chemical ionization than by electron ionization. The structure of the generated fragments was simulated and validated using labeled standards. The method is illustrated by analysis of saccharides extracted from developing rapeseed (Brassica napus L) embryos. It is shown that glucose 6-phosphate isomerase and plastidial glucose 6-phosphate transport reactions are not at equilibrium, and light is shed on the pathways leading to fructose, maltose, and inositol synthesis. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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