Center for Environmental and Systems Biochemistry, Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
Methods Mol Biol. 2025;2855:457-504. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4116-3_26.
NMR is widely used for metabolite profiling (metabolomics, metabonomics) particularly of various readily obtainable biofluids such as plasma and urine. It is especially valuable for stable isotope tracer studies to track metabolic pathways under control or perturbed conditions in a wide range of cell models as well as animal models and human subjects. NMR has unique properties for utilizing stable isotopes to edit or simplify otherwise complex spectra acquired in vitro and in vivo, while quantifying the level of enrichment at specific atomic positions in various metabolites (i.e., isotopomer distribution analysis).In this protocol, we give an overview with specific protocols for NMR-based stable isotope-resolved metabolomics, or SIRM, with a workflow from administration of isotope-enriched precursors, via sample preparation through to NMR data collection and reduction. We focus on indirect detection of common NMR-active stable isotopes including C, N, P, and H, using a variety of H-based two-dimensional experiments. We also include the application and analyses of multiplex tracer experiments.
NMR 广泛用于代谢物分析(代谢组学、代谢组学),特别是各种易于获得的生物流体,如血浆和尿液。它在稳定同位素示踪研究中特别有价值,可以在广泛的细胞模型以及动物模型和人类受试者中跟踪控制或干扰条件下的代谢途径。NMR 具有独特的利用稳定同位素编辑或简化体外和体内获得的复杂光谱的特性,同时定量各种代谢物中特定原子位置的富集水平(即,同位素质谱分析)。在本方案中,我们提供了基于 NMR 的稳定同位素分辨代谢组学或 SIRM 的概述,并提供了从同位素富集前体的给药到样品制备再到 NMR 数据采集和减少的工作流程的具体方案。我们专注于使用各种基于 H 的二维实验间接检测常见的 NMR 活性稳定同位素,包括 C、N、P 和 H。我们还包括多示踪剂实验的应用和分析。