Molecules (Jul 2021)

Personalized Metabolic Profile by Synergic Use of NMR and HRMS

  • Greta Petrella,
  • Camilla Montesano,
  • Sara Lentini,
  • Giorgia Ciufolini,
  • Domitilla Vanni,
  • Roberto Speziale,
  • Andrea Salonia,
  • Francesco Montorsi,
  • Vincenzo Summa,
  • Riccardo Vago,
  • Laura Orsatti,
  • Edith Monteagudo,
  • Daniel Oscar Cicero

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26144167
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 14
p. 4167

Abstract

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A new strategy that takes advantage of the synergism between NMR and UHPLC–HRMS yields accurate concentrations of a high number of compounds in biofluids to delineate a personalized metabolic profile (SYNHMET). Metabolite identification and quantification by this method result in a higher accuracy compared to the use of the two techniques separately, even in urine, one of the most challenging biofluids to characterize due to its complexity and variability. We quantified a total of 165 metabolites in the urine of healthy subjects, patients with chronic cystitis, and patients with bladder cancer, with a minimum number of missing values. This result was achieved without the use of analytical standards and calibration curves. A patient’s personalized profile can be mapped out from the final dataset’s concentrations by comparing them with known normal ranges. This detailed picture has potential applications in clinical practice to monitor a patient’s health status and disease progression.

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