Cell samples were resuspended in high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) grade water for mass spectrometry as described previously [14 (link)]. Briefly, the solutions were injected and analyzed using a hybrid 5500 QTRAP triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (AB/SCIEX) coupled to a Prominence UFLC HPLC system (Shimadzu) via selected reaction monitoring (SRM) of a total of 274 unique endogenous water-soluble metabolites for steady-state analyses of samples. Some metabolites were targeted in both positive and negative ion mode for a total of 306 SRM transitions using positive/negative ion polarity switching. Peak areas from the total ion current for each metabolite SRM transition were integrated using MultiQuant v2.1 software (AB/SCIEX). Comprehensive metabolomic data analysis was performed using MetaboAnalyst 4.0 [104 (link)].
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