University of Texas - College of Pharmacy

Protein and Metabolite Analysis Facility

GC-MS System

GC-MS: ThermoFinnigan Trace gas chromatograph and Trace MS single quadrupole MS detector

Lipid/fatty acid quantitaion. - Quantification of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) only.

Toxicant and xenobiotic identification. - Quantification of known lipophilic small molecules.

Fatty acids, prostaglandins, isoprostanes
Fatty acid methyl esters (FAME): quantitation of lauric, myristic, palmitic, palmitoleic, stearic, oleic, linoleic, linolenic, eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acids (DHA)
Detection of capric, tridecanoic, myristoleic, pentadecanoic, heptadecanoic, elaidic, arachidic, cis-11-eicosenoic, behenic, and erucic acids
Homocysteine and cysteine- 1 pg
4-aminobiphenyl- 0.1 pg
4-hydroxynonenal- 10 pg

Recent publications using the GC-MS:

Zhang H, White-Phillip JA, Melancon CE, 3rd, Kwon HJ, Yu WL, Liu HW. Elucidation of the kijanimicin gene cluster: insights into the biosynthesis of spirotetronate antibiotics and nitrosugars. J Am Chem Soc. 2007;129(47):14670-83. PMCID: 2515274. PMID: 17985890. PMAF Usage: Trace GC-MS of modified sugar, 4700 MALDI-MS of modified sugar

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Last Reviewed: September 14, 2011

Maria D. Person
Director

Michelle V. Gadush
MBB Lab Manager

Marvin Mercado
PHR Lab Manager

Chia-Fang Lee
CPRIT post-doctoral fellow

Cissy Geigerman
Luminex Specialist

Jacqulyn Tolson,
Research Assistant

Delivery Address:

Protein and Metabolite Analysis Facility
The University of Texas
at Austin
2500 Speedway
MBB 1.420
Austin, TX, USA
78712

Email Address: pmaf
@austin.utexas.edu

Phone:
(512)471-2895

Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology (ICMB)

Center for Research on Environmental Disease (CRED)