Issue 1, 2010

The influence of EDTA and citrateanticoagulant addition to human plasma on information recovery from NMR-based metabolic profiling studies

Abstract

The widely-used blood anticoagulantscitrate and EDTA give rise to prominent peaks in 1H NMR spectra of plasma samples collected in epidemiological and clinical studies, and these cause varying levels of interference in recovering biochemical information on endogenous metabolites. To investigate both the potential metabolic information loss caused by these substances and any possible inter-molecular interactions between the anticoagulants and endogenous components, the 1H NMR spectra of 40 split human plasma samples collected from 20 individuals into either citrate or EDTA have been analysed. Endogenous metabolite peaks were selectively obscured by large citrate peaks or those from free EDTA and its calcium and magnesium complexes. It is shown that the endogenous metabolites that give rise to peaks obscured by those from EDTA or citrate almost invariably also have other resonances that allow their identification and potential quantitation. Also, metabolic information recovery could be maximised by use of spectral editing techniques such as spin-echo, diffusion-editing and J-resolved experiments. The NMR spectral effects of any interactions between the added citrate or EDTA and endogenous components were found to be negligible. Finally, identification of split samples was feasible using simple multivariate statistical approaches such as principal components analysis. Thus even when legacy epidemiological plasma samples have been collected using the NMR-inappropriate citrate or EDTAanticoagulants, useful biochemical information can still be recovered effectively.

Graphical abstract: The influence of EDTA and citrateanticoagulant addition to human plasma on information recovery from NMR-based metabolic profiling studies

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Apr 2009
Accepted
20 Aug 2009
First published
28 Sep 2009

Mol. BioSyst., 2010,6, 215-224

The influence of EDTA and citrateanticoagulant addition to human plasma on information recovery from NMR-based metabolic profiling studies

R. H. Barton, D. Waterman, F. W. Bonner, E. Holmes, R. Clarke, the PROCARDIS Consortium, J. K. Nicholson and J. C. Lindon, Mol. BioSyst., 2010, 6, 215 DOI: 10.1039/B907021D

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