Gadolinium-based paramagnetic relaxation enhancement agent enhances sensitivity for NUS multidimensional NMR-based metabolomics

Chandrashekhar Honrao, Nathalie Teissier, Bo Zhang, Robert Powers, Elizabeth M. O’Day

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Abstract

Gadolinium is a paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (PRE) agent that accelerates the relaxation of metabolite nuclei. In this study, we noted the ability of gadolinium to improve the sensitivity of two-dimensional, non-uniform sampled NMR spectral data collected from metabo-lomics samples. In time-equivalent experiments, the addition of gadolinium increased the mean signal intensity measurement and the signal-to-noise ratio for metabolite resonances in both standard and plasma samples. Gadolinium led to highly linear intensity measurements that correlated with metabolite concentrations. In the presence of gadolinium, we were able to detect a broad array of metabolites with a lower limit of detection and quantification in the low micromolar range. We also observed an increase in the repeatability of intensity measurements upon the addition of gad-olinium. The results of this study suggest that the addition of a gadolinium-based PRE agent to metabolite samples can improve NMR-based metabolomics.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number5115
JournalMolecules
Volume26
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1 2021

Keywords

  • Gadolinium
  • Metabolomics
  • NMR
  • Paramagnetic
  • Relaxation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Chemistry (miscellaneous)
  • Molecular Medicine
  • Pharmaceutical Science
  • Drug Discovery
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry

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