Engineering improved ethylene production: Leveraging systems biology and adaptive laboratory evolution.

Ethylene is a small hydrocarbon gas widely used in the chemical industry. Annual worldwide production currently exceeds 150 million tons, producing considerable amounts of CO contributing to climate change. The need for a sustainable alternative is therefore imperative.

Quantitative Bioreactor Monitoring of Intracellular Bacterial Metabolites in Using Liquid Chromatography-Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry.

We report a liquid chromatography-isotope dilution mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous quantification of 131 intracellular bacterial metabolites of . A comprehensive mixture of uniformly C-labeled internal standards (U-C IS) was biosynthesized from the closely related bacterium using 4% C-glucose as a carbon source. The U-C IS mixture combined with C authentic standards was used to validate the linearity, precision, accuracy, repeatability, limits of detection, and quantification for each metabolite.

Phospholipid-Gold Nanorods Induce Energy Crisis in MCF-7 Cells: Cytotoxicity Evaluation Using LC-MS-Based Metabolomics Approach.

Phospholipid-modified gold nanorods (phospholipid-GNRs) have demonstrated drastic cytotoxicity towards MCF-7 breast cancer cells compared to polyethylene glycol-coated GNRs (PEG-GNRs). In this study, the mechanism of cytotoxicity of phospholipid-GNRs towards MCF-7 cells was investigated using mass spectrometry-based global metabolic profiling and compared to PEGylated counterparts. The results showed that when compared to PEG-GNRs, phospholipid-GNRs induced significant and more pronounced impact on the metabolic profile of MCF-7 cells.

Metabolic characterisation of MSR-1 using LC-MS-based metabolite profiling.

Magnetosomes are nano-sized magnetic nanoparticles with exquisite properties that can be used in a wide range of healthcare and biotechnological applications. They are biosynthesised by magnetotactic bacteria (MTB), such as MSR-1 (). However, magnetosome bioprocessing yields low quantities compared to chemical synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles.

Quantitative Isotope-Dilution High-Resolution-Mass-Spectrometry Analysis of Multiple Intracellular Metabolites in Clostridium autoethanogenum with Uniformly C-Labeled Standards Derived from Spirulina.

We have investigated the applicability of commercially available lyophilized spirulina ( Arthrospira platensis), a microorganism uniformly labeled with C, as a readily accessible source of multiple C-labeled metabolites suitable as internal standards for the quantitative determination of intracellular bacterial metabolites. Metabolites of interest were analyzed by hydrophilic-interaction liquid chromatography coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry. Multiple internal standards obtained from uniformly (U)-C-labeled extracts from spirulina were used to enable isotope-dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS) in the identification and quantification of intracellular metabolites.