Global Metabolome Analysis of Dunaliella tertiolecta, Phaeobacter italicus R11 Co-cultures using Thermal Desoprtion - Comprehensive Two-dimensional Gas Chromatography - Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

Dunaliella tertiolecta is a marine microalgae that has been studied extensively as a potential carbon-neutral biofuel source [1]. Microalgae oil contains high quantities of energy-rich fatty acids and lipids, but is not yet commercially viable as an alternative fuel. Carefully optimised growth conditions, and more recently, algal-bacterial co-cultures have been explored as a way of improving the yield of Dunaliella tertiolecta microalgae oils. The relationship between the host microalgae and bacterial co-cultures is currently poorly understood. Here, a complete workflow is proposed to analyse the global metabolomic profile of co-cultured Dunaliella tertiolectra and Phaeobacter italicus R11, which will enable researchers to explore the chemical nature of this relationship in more detail. Graphical Abstract O_FIG O_LINKSMALLFIG WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=88 SRC="FIGDIR/small/461748v1_ufig1.gif" ALT="Figure 1"> View larger version (22K): org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@18c3cb0org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@1e48735org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@68a98borg.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@15306bc_HPS_FORMAT_FIGEXP M_FIG C_FIG HighlightsO_LIA method for direct microalgae sample introduction is proposed. C_LIO_LIAdvanced chemometric tools can extract, useful and discriminating metabolomic features even from very noisy complex datasets. C_LI