Mass Spectral Similarity Networking and Gas-Phase Fragmentation Reactions in the Structural Analysis of Flavonoid Glycoconjugates.

Anal Chem

Núcleo de Bioensaios, Biossíntese e Ecofisiologia de Produtos Naturais (NuBBE), Departamento de Química Orgânica, Instituto de Química , Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) , Araraquara 14800-900 , São Paulo , Brazil.

Published: August 2019

Flavonoids represent an important class of natural products with a central role in plant physiology and human health. Their accurate annotation using untargeted mass spectrometry analysis still relies on differentiating similar chemical scaffolds through spectral matching to reference library spectra. In this work, we combined molecular network analysis with rules for fragment reactions and chemotaxonomy to enhance the annotation of similar flavonoid glyconjugates. Molecular network topology progressively propagated the flavonoid chemical functionalization according to collision-induced dissociation (CID) reactions, as the following chemical attributes: aglycone nature, saccharide type and number, and presence of methoxy substituents. This structure-based distribution across the spectral networks revealed the chemical composition of flavonoids across intra- and interspecies and guided the putatively assignment of 64 isomers and isobars in the Chrysobalanaceae plant species, most of which are not accurately annotated by automated untargeted MS matching. These proof of concept results demonstrate how molecular networking progressively grouped structurally related molecules according to their product ion scans, abundances, and ratios. The approach can be extrapolated to other classes of metabolites sharing similar structures and diagnostic fragments from tandem mass spectrometry.

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