LC-MS for metabolomic analysis was performed using an HPLC apparatus (Agilent) coupled to an LTQ Orbitrap XL-MS system (Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., San Jose, CA, USA), equipped with an electrospray source in APCI positive-ion mode. The spray capillary temperature was 200°C. Scan event 1 was performed in full mass mode (analyzer; orbitrap), and scan events 2–5 were operated in MS/MS mode (analyzer; ion trap, act type; collision-induced dissociation, normalized collision energy: 35.0). The tomato extract was injected and analyzed by LC, using the same LC analysis program as that used for HPLC. The data were obtained using Xcalibur (Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.), Compound Discoverer 2.1 (Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.), and PowerGet software (Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Chiba, Japan) using previously described methods [31 (link)–33 (link)]. Compound Discoverer software and PowerGet software were linked to the metabolite databases (KEGG, ChemSpider, and PubChem).
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