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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 83, Issue 10, Pages 3737-3743Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac2001803
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- Darwin Trust of Edinburgh
- NERC [NE/D002508/1, RS-H10-61]
- Advantage West Midlands
- NERC [NE/D002818/1, NBAF010004, NE/D002508/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/D002818/1, NE/D002508/1, NBAF010004] Funding Source: researchfish
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Currently there is limited information available on the accuracy and precision of relative isotopic abundance (RIA) measurements using high-resolution direct-infusion mass spectrometry (HR DIMS), and it is unclear if this information can benefit automated peak annotation in metabolomics. Here we characterize the accuracy of RIA measurements on the Thermo LTQ FT Ultra (resolution of 100 000-750 000) and LTQ Orbitrap (R = 100 000) mass spectrometers. This first involved reoptimizing the SIM-stitching method (Southam, A. D. Anal. Chem. 2007, 79, 4595-4602) for the LTQ FT Ultra, which achieved a ca. 3-fold sensitivity increase compared to the original method while maintaining a root-mean-squared mass error of 0.16 ppm. Using this method, we show the quality of RIA measurements is highly dependent on signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), with RIA accuracy increasing with higher SNR Furthermore, a negative offset between the theoretical and empirically calculated numbers of carbon atoms was observed for both mass spectrometers. Increasing the resolution of the LTQ FT Ultra lowered both the sensitivity and the quality of RIA measurements. Overall, although the errors in the empirically calculated number of carbons can be large (e.g., 10 carbons), we demonstrate that RIA measurements do improve automated peak annotation, increasing the number of single empirical formula assignments by >3-fold compared to using accurate mass alone.
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