Metabolic fingerprinting of Lactobacillus paracasei: a multi-criteria evaluation of methods for extraction of intracellular metabolites

Kristina Bak Jäpelt, Nikoline Juul Nielsen, Stefanie Wiese, Jan H. Christensen

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Abstract

An untargeted multi-criteria approach was used to select the best extraction method among freeze-thawing in methanol (FTM), boiling ethanol (BE) and chloroform-methanol (CM) for gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) metabolic fingerprinting of Lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei (CRL-431®). The following results were obtained: (i) coverage and efficiency, measured by the number of features extracted and the sum of feature intensities, showed that FTM extraction resulted in the largest compound coverage with a total number of features 8.9 × 103 ± 0.5 × 103, while merely 6.6 × 103 ± 0.9 × 103 and 7.9 × 103 ± 0.8 × 103 were detected in BE or CM, respectively; (ii) the similarity of extraction methods, measured by common features, demonstrated that FTM yielded the most complementary information to BE and CM; i.e. 17 and 33 % of the features of FTM extracted were unique compared to CM and BE, respectively; and (iii) a clear-cut separation according to extraction method was demonstrated by assessment of the metabolic fingerprints by pixel-based data analysis. Indications of metabolite degradation were observed under the elevated temperature for BE extraction. A superior coverage of FTM together with a high repeatability over nearly the whole range of GC-amenable compounds makes this the extraction method of choice for metabolic fingerprinting of L. paracasei.

Original languageEnglish
JournalAnalytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
Volume407
Issue number20
Pages (from-to)6095-6104
Number of pages10
ISSN1618-2642
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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