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Localizing metabolic synthesis in microbial cultures with kinetic mass spectrometry imaging (kMSI)

Katherine B. Louie, Benjamin P. Bowen, Rebecca Lau, Trent R. Northen
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/050658
Katherine B. Louie
1Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Benjamin P. Bowen
1Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Rebecca Lau
1Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Trent R. Northen
1Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Abstract

Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) has emerged as a powerful technique enabling spatially defined imaging of metabolites within microbial biofilms. Here, we extend this approach to enable differentiation of newly synthesized versus pre-existing metabolites across a co-culture. This is accomplished by MS imaging two soil microbes, Shewanella oneidensis MR1 and Pseudomonas stutzeri RCH2, that were administered heavy water (D2O) during growth on agar plates. For two species-specific diglyceride (DG) lipids, isotopic analysis was performed on each spectra collected across the co-culture to determine the relative amount of newly synthesized versus pre-existing lipid. Here, highest levels of new synthesis of RCH2 lipid was localized to border regions adjacent to S. oneidensis MR1, while the MR1 lipid showed highest levels in regions further from RCH2. Interestingly, regions of high lipid abundance did not correspond to the regions with highest new lipid biosynthesis. Given the simplicity and generality of using D2O as a stable isotopic probe combined with the accessibility of kMSI to a range of MSI instrumentation, this approach has broad application for improving our understanding of how microbial interactions influence metabolite biosynthesis.

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Localizing metabolic synthesis in microbial cultures with kinetic mass spectrometry imaging (kMSI)
Katherine B. Louie, Benjamin P. Bowen, Rebecca Lau, Trent R. Northen
bioRxiv 050658; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/050658
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Localizing metabolic synthesis in microbial cultures with kinetic mass spectrometry imaging (kMSI)
Katherine B. Louie, Benjamin P. Bowen, Rebecca Lau, Trent R. Northen
bioRxiv 050658; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/050658

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