A Spatial Metabolomics Annotation Workflow Leveraging Cyclic Ion Mobility and Machine Learning-Predicted Collision Cross Sections

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Title: A Spatial Metabolomics Annotation Workflow Leveraging Cyclic Ion Mobility and Machine Learning-Predicted Collision Cross Sections
Authors: Dmitry Leontyev, Eric C. Gier, Viraj A. Master, Rebecca S. Arnold, John A. Petros, Facundo M. Fernández
Publication Year: 2025
Subject Terms: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Sociology, Cancer, Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified, Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified, Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified, Information Systems not elsewhere classified, unknown structural elucidation, surgical muscle relaxant, mass spectrometry imaging, enhance metabolite annotations, 4 %) relative, nontargeted spatial metabolomics, based spatial metabolomics, ccs measurements contributed, many unknown features, differential lipids found, predicted ccs values, accuracy ccs values, filtering threshold used, control kidney tissues, based annotation workflows, 2 , experimental ccs data, differential rcc features, spatial patterns, database values, previous ccs
Description: In nontargeted spatial metabolomics, accurate annotation is crucial for understanding metabolites’ biological roles and spatial patterns. MS 2 mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) coverage is often incomplete or nonexistent, resulting in many unknown features that represent an untapped source of biological information. Ion mobility-derived collision cross sections (CCS) have been leveraged as valuable descriptors for confirming putative metabolite annotations, distinguishing isomers, and aiding in unknown structural elucidation. In this study, desorption electrospray ionization cyclic ion mobility mass spectrometry imaging (DESI-cIM-MSI) data from human renal cell carcinoma (RCC) tissues is used as a testbed to explore the extent to which CCS measurements enhance MSI lipid annotation confidence when combined with machine learning CCS predictions and SIRIUS analysis of MS 2 data. Multipass IM experiments yielded excellent CCS accuracy (<0.4%) relative to database values for differential lipids found in RCC tissues, improving the filtering threshold used in previous CCS-based annotation workflows. High-accuracy multipass CCS measurements enabled the correct annotation of isobaric lipid database matches, even in the absence of MS 2 data. Additionally, MS 2 data from differential RCC features were uploaded to SIRIUS, and the predicted CCS values for SIRIUS candidates were compared to experimental CCS data to filter out unlikely candidates. Finally, CCS measurements contributed to the annotation of two spatially correlated unknown features, differential between tumor and control kidney tissues. Both features were assigned to rocuronium, a surgical muscle relaxant that had not been previously reported in MSI studies. Overall, these results underscore the potential of high-accuracy CCS values to enhance metabolite annotations in MSI-based spatial metabolomics.
Document Type: article in journal/newspaper
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DOI: 10.1021/jasms.5c00090.s001
Availability: https://doi.org/10.1021/jasms.5c00090.s001
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Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0
Accession Number: edsbas.933B8679
Database: BASE
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Abstract:In nontargeted spatial metabolomics, accurate annotation is crucial for understanding metabolites’ biological roles and spatial patterns. MS 2 mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) coverage is often incomplete or nonexistent, resulting in many unknown features that represent an untapped source of biological information. Ion mobility-derived collision cross sections (CCS) have been leveraged as valuable descriptors for confirming putative metabolite annotations, distinguishing isomers, and aiding in unknown structural elucidation. In this study, desorption electrospray ionization cyclic ion mobility mass spectrometry imaging (DESI-cIM-MSI) data from human renal cell carcinoma (RCC) tissues is used as a testbed to explore the extent to which CCS measurements enhance MSI lipid annotation confidence when combined with machine learning CCS predictions and SIRIUS analysis of MS 2 data. Multipass IM experiments yielded excellent CCS accuracy (<0.4%) relative to database values for differential lipids found in RCC tissues, improving the filtering threshold used in previous CCS-based annotation workflows. High-accuracy multipass CCS measurements enabled the correct annotation of isobaric lipid database matches, even in the absence of MS 2 data. Additionally, MS 2 data from differential RCC features were uploaded to SIRIUS, and the predicted CCS values for SIRIUS candidates were compared to experimental CCS data to filter out unlikely candidates. Finally, CCS measurements contributed to the annotation of two spatially correlated unknown features, differential between tumor and control kidney tissues. Both features were assigned to rocuronium, a surgical muscle relaxant that had not been previously reported in MSI studies. Overall, these results underscore the potential of high-accuracy CCS values to enhance metabolite annotations in MSI-based spatial metabolomics.
DOI:10.1021/jasms.5c00090.s001