A Fully Automated Offline Solution for the Analysis of Amino Acids by GC-MS

Martin Perkins

27th July 2017

Amino acids are both key metabolites in primary metabolism and the structural building blocks of proteins. With a diverse range of structures and properties, routine amino acid analysis is done in a range of sectors including:

Diagnosis & management of metabolic diseases
Biomedical research and epidemiological studies in animal/human health and nutrition (e.g. branched chain amino acids are predictive biomarkers of metabolic syndrome)
Routine food testing for compliance with regulations or food labelling requirements (e.g. histamine, collagen, protein, aspartame/phenylalanine, protein content)
Large scale field/breeding trials for plant quality of nutritional traits
Food and agriculture science: studying flavour formation during cooking; managing/predicting acrylamide formation potential of raw materials (grain or potatoes) for baked or fried products
Metabolic flux analysis (fluxomics) in biochemical studies
Fermentation reaction monitoring (biopharma, industrial biotechnology, synthetic biology)
Peptide/protein characterisation and QC