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NATURE PROTOCOLS
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 134-154出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2017.122
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- European Union's Horizon Research and Innovation Programme [634402]
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action [MSCA-IF-2016, 704786]
- US National Institutes of Health (NIH) [5P41GM103484-07]
- National Institute of Justice Award [2015-DN-BX-K047]
- NIH grant [GMS10RR029121]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation program on the Microbiology of the Built Environment
Our skin, our belongings, the world surrounding us, and the environment we live in are covered with molecular traces. Detecting and characterizing these molecular traces is necessary to understand the environmental impact on human health and disease, and to decipher complex molecular interactions between humans and other species, particularly microbiota. We recently introduced 3D molecular cartography for mapping small organic molecules (including metabolites, lipids, and environmental molecules) found on various surfaces, including the human body. Here, we provide a protocol and open-source software for 3D molecular cartography. The protocol includes step-by-step procedures for sample collection and processing, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based metabolomics, quality control (QC), molecular identification using MS/MS, data processing, and visualization with 3D models of the sampled environment. The LC-MS method was optimized for a broad range of small organic molecules. We enable scientists to reproduce our previously obtained results, and illustrate the broad utility of our approach with molecular maps of a rosemary plant and an ATM keypad after a PIN code was entered. To promote reproducibility, we introduce cartographical snapshots: files that describe a particular map and visualization settings, and that can be shared and loaded to reproduce the visualization. The protocol enables molecular cartography to be performed in any mass spectrometry laboratory and, in principle, for any spatially mapped data. We anticipate applications, in particular, in medicine, ecology, agriculture, biotechnology, and forensics. The protocol takes 78 h for a molecular map of 100 spots, excluding the reagent setup.
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