Abstract
The analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) using mass spectrometry-based metabolomics can provide insight into lung diseases, such as asthma. However, the important step of compound identification is hindered by the lack of a small molecule database that is specific for BALF. Here we describe prototypic, small molecule databases derived from human BALF samples (n=117). Human BALF was extracted into lipid and aqueous fractions and analyzed using liquid chromatography mass spectrometry. Following filtering to reduce contaminants and artifacts, the resulting BALF databases (BALF-DBs) contain 11,736 lipid and 658 aqueous compounds. Over 10% of these were found in 100% of samples. Testing the BALF-DBs using nested test sets produced a 99% match rate for lipids and 47% match rate for aqueous molecules. Searching an independent dataset resulted in 45% matching to the lipid BALF-DB compared to<25% when general databases are searched. The BALF-DBs are available for download from MetaboLights. Overall, the BALF-DBs can reduce false positives and improve confidence in compound identification compared to when general databases are used.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 180060 |
Journal | Scientific Data |
Volume | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 17 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Work described in this manuscript was funded by NIH–P20-HL113445-05 to Russell Bowler, Nichole Reisdorph and Irina Petrache, PIs.
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