基于UPLC-oaTOF-MS的糖尿病及糖尿病肾病的代谢组学研究

以糖尿病患者、糖尿病肾病患者和正常人的血清为研究对象, 采用超高效液相色谱-飞行时间质谱建立其代谢指纹图谱, 并结合主成分分析进行模式识别, 实现患者和正常人的区分, 并试图发现潜在的标志物.

Metabonomics Research of Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetic Nephropathy Based on UPLC-oaTOF-MS System

Ultra performance liquid chromatography(UPLC) coupled with orthogonal acceleration time-of-flight(oaTOF) mass spectrometry is becoming an effective and high-throughput analytical technique in metabonomics research.In this paper,an UPLC-oaTOF-MS system was employed to investigate the serum profiles of 40 diabete mellitus(DM)/diabetic nephropathy(DN) patients and 25 healthy volunteers in an effort to find potential biomarkers.The UPLC system produced information-rich chromatograms with typical measured peak widths of 4 s,and generated peak capacities of 225 in 15 min.After the UPLC-oaTOF-MS analysis,principal component analysis(PCA) was used for group differentiation and marker selection.In the projection of positive mode,DM/DN patients and the controls were obviously divided into three groups.Furthermore,two potential markers were identified as phytosphingosine and sphinganine,respectively.Phytosphingosine and sphinganine with decreased concentrations in the patients,were closely related to the sphingolipid metabolism.