Motivation: Labelling experiments in biology usually make use of isotopically-enriched substrates, with the two most commonly employed isotopes for metabolism being 2 H and 13 C. At the end of the experiment some metabolites will have incorporated the labelling isotope, to a degree that depends on the metabolic turnover. In order to propose a meaningful biological interpretation, it is necessary to estimate the amount of labelling, and one possible route is to exploit the fact that MS isotopic patterns reflect the isotopic distributions. Results: We developed the IsotopicLabelling R package, a tool able to extract and analyse isotopic patterns from liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and gas chromatography-MS (GC-MS) data relative to labelling experiments. This package estimates the isotopic abundance of the employed stable isotope (either 2 H or 13 C) within a specified list of analytes. Availability: The IsotopicLabelling R package is freely available at https://github.com/RuggeroFerrazza/IsotopicLabelling

Ferrazza, R.; Griffin, J.L.; Guella, G.; Franceschi, P. (2017). IsotopicLabelling: an R package for the analysis of MS isotopic patterns of labelled analytes. BIOINFORMATICS, 33 (2): 300-302. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw588 handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/33801

IsotopicLabelling: an R package for the analysis of MS isotopic patterns of labelled analytes

Franceschi, Pietro
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2017-01-01

Abstract

Motivation: Labelling experiments in biology usually make use of isotopically-enriched substrates, with the two most commonly employed isotopes for metabolism being 2 H and 13 C. At the end of the experiment some metabolites will have incorporated the labelling isotope, to a degree that depends on the metabolic turnover. In order to propose a meaningful biological interpretation, it is necessary to estimate the amount of labelling, and one possible route is to exploit the fact that MS isotopic patterns reflect the isotopic distributions. Results: We developed the IsotopicLabelling R package, a tool able to extract and analyse isotopic patterns from liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and gas chromatography-MS (GC-MS) data relative to labelling experiments. This package estimates the isotopic abundance of the employed stable isotope (either 2 H or 13 C) within a specified list of analytes. Availability: The IsotopicLabelling R package is freely available at https://github.com/RuggeroFerrazza/IsotopicLabelling
Mass spectrometry
Data analysis
Isotope analysis
Settore CHIM/01 - CHIMICA ANALITICA
2017
Ferrazza, R.; Griffin, J.L.; Guella, G.; Franceschi, P. (2017). IsotopicLabelling: an R package for the analysis of MS isotopic patterns of labelled analytes. BIOINFORMATICS, 33 (2): 300-302. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw588 handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/33801
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