PR000906 (Project)

Description:The goal of this multiplatform, non-targeted metabolomics study was to explore the metabolic alterations occurring during the natural progression of pulmonary tuberculosis in a murine model of disease (C57BL/6 genotype). For this purpose, we used gas chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, and reversed-phase liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass analyzers (GC-EI-QTOF/MS, CE-ESI(+)-QTOF/MS, LC-ESI(+)-QTOF/MS and LC-ESI(-)-QTOF/MS to analyze lung extracts of age and sex-matched uninfected mice (UW, n=4), Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected mice at 4 weeks post-infection (4W, n=4) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected mice at 9 weeks post-infection. All data were acquired in MS1 mode, following a canonical non-targeted workflow. The potential benefit for the general research community arising from the combination of these analyses is to generate mass spectrometry data which has not been previously described for this model of the disease. This data may serve as a foundation for the validation of observations, data modeling, and biochemical interpretation of MS-based metabolic changes found in the comparisons between the different sample groups