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Deconvoluting interrelationships between concentrations and chemical shifts in urine provides a powerful analysis tool.

ABSTRACT: The NMR chemical shifts of a substance in a complex mixture strongly depend on the composition of the mixture itself, as many weak interactions occur that are hardly predictable. Chemical shift variability is the major obstacle to automatically assigning, and subsequently quantitating, metabolite signals in body fluids, particularly urine. Here we demonstrate that the chemical shifts of signals in urine are actually predictable. This is achieved by constructing ca. 4000 artificial mixtures where the concentrations of 52 most abundant urine metabolites-including 11 inorganic ions-are varied, to sparsely but efficiently populate an N-dimensional concentration matrix. A strong relationship is established between the concentration matrix and the chemical shift matrix, so that chemical shifts of >?90 metabolite signals can be accurately predicted in real urine samples. The concentrations of the invisible inorganic ions are also accurately predicted, along with those of albumin and of several other abundant urine components.

SUBMITTER: Takis PG

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5698486 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Deconvoluting interrelationships between concentrations and chemical shifts in urine provides a powerful analysis tool.

Takis Panteleimon G PG Schäfer Hartmut H Spraul Manfred M Luchinat Claudio C

Nature communications 20171121 1

The NMR chemical shifts of a substance in a complex mixture strongly depend on the composition of the mixture itself, as many weak interactions occur that are hardly predictable. Chemical shift variability is the major obstacle to automatically assigning, and subsequently quantitating, metabolite signals in body fluids, particularly urine. Here we demonstrate that the chemical shifts of signals in urine are actually predictable. This is achieved by constructing ca. 4000 artificial mixtures where ...[more]

PMID: 29162796

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