The identification of xenobiotics through nontargeted analysis is a vital step in understanding human exposure, however metabolism, excretion, and co-existence with other endogenous molecules in the metabolome greatly complicate their measurements. Xenobiotics are therefore commonly undetected and exist as part of the dark metabolome. While mass spectrometry (MS)-based platforms are commonly used in metabolomic measurements, deconvoluting endogenous metabolites and xenobiotics is often limited by a lack of xenobiotic parent and metabolite standards as well as the numerous isomers possible for each m/z feature. Here we evaluated the ability of ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and mass defect filtering techniques to narrow large metabolomic feature lists to xenobiotics of interest. Due to the lack of IMS collision cross section (CCS) values for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), we initially evaluated 87 PFAS standards with IMS-MS to develop a PFAS CCS library. The detected PFAS CCS and m/z values were then compared to other biomolecule and xenobiotic classes, illustrating clear differentiation between the biomolecules and the halogenated xenobiotics. To address the lack of xenobiotic standards, machine learning was then utilized to predict CCS values. Ultimately, a xenobiotic selection workflow combining experimental and theoretical CCS values and mass defect filtering was employed to evaluate PFAS features in NIST human serum. This workflow reduced the 2,423 LC-IMS-MS features to 98 possible PFAS, and 23 were identified using homologous series information.
[doi:10.25345/C5FV9K]
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Keywords: Perfluoroalkyl Substances ; Polyfluoroalkyl Substances ; PFAS
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Erin Baker, North Carolina State University, United States |
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