Metabolomic Analysis for Newborn Screening and Diagnosis of Metabolic Disorders Mass Spectrometry and Separation Sciences for Laboratory Medicine Chicago October 1-2, 2015 Michael J. Bennett PhD, FRCPath, FACB, DABCC University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine & Children s Hospital of Philadelphia bennettmi@email.chop.edu
Learning goals The audience will be made aware of the public health significance of screening newborns for metabolic diseases The role that medium-chain acyl-coa dehydrogenase deficiency played in defining the expansion of newborn screening will be outlined The role of tandem mass spectrometry as a screening tool for metabolic disorders will be described Future trends in newborn screening using mass spectrometry will be discussed The use of untargeted metabolomics for the diagnosis of metabolic diseases will be described.
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Phenylketonuria and blood spot collection
Robert Guthrie and the bacterial inhibition assay
Improved outcomes for patients with PKU In the unscreened population: patients are inevitably institutionalized with severe developmental delay $188K US per year in 2009* Screened population: essentially normal development on a restricted dietary regimen, no institutionalization Concerns about maintaining good metabolic control, particularly in girls of conceptional age * National Council for Disability
Other diseases added congenital adrenal hyperplasia congenital hypothyroidism sickle cell disease (other hemoglobinopathies) All demonstrate much improved clinical outcomes following early diagnosis
MCAD deficiency fulfills most screening requirements
Science. 1983 Jul 1;221(4605):73-5. Dicarboxylic aciduria: deficient [1-14C]octanoate oxidation and medium-chain acyl-coa dehydrogenase in fibroblasts. Rhead WJ, Amendt BA, Fritchman KS, Felts SJ. Pediatr Res. 1983 Nov;17(11):877-84. Medium-chain acyl-coa dehydrogenase deficiency in children with non-ketotic hypoglycemia and low carnitine levels. Stanley CA, Hale DE, Coates PM, Hall CL, Corkey BE, Yang W, Kelley RI, Gonzales EL, Williamson JR, Baker L. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 1984 Mar 31; 288(6422): 976. PMCID: PMC1442514 Deficiency of medium chain fatty acylcoenzyme A dehydrogenase presenting as the sudden infant death syndrome. A J Howat, M J Bennett, S Variend, and L Shaw
The word about MCAD deficiency gets out 1980 s-90 s many more cases of MCAD described often associated with sudden death, from neonates to adults(46y). Estimated that 25% of cases die at first presentation. High morbidity in survivors Very high incidence of previous sibling deaths Population frequency estimated to be same as Phenylketonuria in Northern European populations (1 in 8,000-16,000) Regarded as treatable if diagnosed early (sibling studies)
The advent of tandem mass spectrometry as a tool for NBS David Millington s group at Duke University pioneered tandem mass spectrometry methodologies for measurement of amino acids for amino acid disorders and acylcarnitines for MCAD deficiency and other fatty acid oxidation defects and some organic acidemias The use of flow injection and Multiple Reaction Monitoring allows for simultaneous measurement of many acylcarnitine and amino acid species without chromatographic separation in a 2 minute analytic time Stable isotope-labeled internal standards allows for accurate quantitation
100% * 90% C 0 Normal acylcarnitine profile 80% Intensity 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% C 2 * * * * * 20% 10% 200 220 240 260 280 300 320 340 360 380 400 420 440 460 480 500m/z
Acylcarnitine profile from patient with isovaleric acidemia 100% C 5 90% 80% 70% Intensity 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% C 0 C 2 * * * * * * 200 220 240 260 280 300 320 340 360 380 400 420 440 460 480 500
Distinctive acylcarnitine profiles in fatty acid oxidation defects Normal MCAD VLCAD CPT2 LCHAD Glutaric Acidemia2
carn C16 phe C2 Leu Ileu gly arg
Current status of newborn screening USA: Most states follow ACMG guidelines Australia: Includes most of ACMG recommended disorders UK: MCAD plus 4 more Germany: 14 conditions mandated Netherlands: 14 conditions Programs starting in many countries
10 Great public health achievements: Centers for Disease Control Vaccine preventable diseases Prevention and control of infectious diseases Tobacco control *Maternal and child health* folate supplementation, Newborn screening Motor vehicle safety Cardiovascular disease prevention Occupational safety Cancer prevention Childhood lead poisoning prevention Public health preparedness and response
Metabolomic analysis for metabolic diseases Screening designed for maximum sensitivity (least false negatives) Generates some false positives Requirement for confirmatory testing usually requires mass spectrometric analysis GC-MS for organic acids, untargeted metabolomics assay TMS or LC-MS/MS for plasma acylcarnitines, amino acids, lysosomal enzymes
Follow-up guidelines National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines: Follow-Up Testing for Metabolic Disease Identified by Expanded Newborn Screening Using Tandem Mass Spectrometry; Executive Summary Clin Chem 55: 1615-1626, 2009 www.aacc.org/nacb/guidelines
Urine organic acid analysis Untargeted approach to identification of metabolic intermediates indicating a specific defect of metabolism. amino acids, fatty acids, neurotransmitters, vitamin metabolism, cholesterol biosynthesis, other mitochondrial pathways, oxalate/peroxisomal metabolism, glutathione pathway, ketone body metabolism.
Normal organic acid chromatogram hip IS cit kg acon ox urea succ adip lac
3-methylcrotoyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency 3-MCG Hippurate IS
How low can we go? GC-MS with full scan 10µmol/mmol creatinine GC-MS with heavy isotope-labelled internal standard, selected ion monitoring 100nmol 10 µmol/mmol creatinine
Pre-analytical sources of urine metabolomic artifacts Endogenous, Metabolic Symbiotic Clinical Exogenous, Pharmacologic, prescribed Pharmacologic, not prescribed Nutritional/Xenobiotic
Metabolic artifacts Artifacts related to fasting: ketones up to 20mmol/mmol creatinine (DKA) dicarboxylic and 3-hydroxydicarboxlic acids (? mitochondrial leakage) Intermediates of ketogenic amino acid catabolic pathways Artifacts related to stress phenolic acid metabolites of catecholamines (HVA, VMA,)
Clinical artifacts Other disease states Liver disease of any etiology tyrosine metabolites, N-acetylated amino acids Catecholamine-secreting tumors catechol metabolites VMA, HVA, VLA Maternal disease (artifacts in newborns) maternal metabolic disease
Products of the microbiome Products of GI flora metabolism Volatile fatty acids propionate, butyrate (often further metabolized endogenously). Direct oxidation in gut epithelium TCA cycle intermediates succinate, citrate, isocitrate Products of bacterial metabolism of plant membranes p, m and o cresol, 4-hydroxyphenylacetate, 3 and 4- hydroxyhippurate, but not 2-hydroxyhippurate
Pharmacologic artifacts Prescribed and non-prescribed Anticonvulsants and their metabolites Phenytoin. Phenobarbital, valproate, carbamazepine NSAIDS Salicylates, acetominophen, ibuprofen Treatment for hyperammonemia benzoate hippurate, phenylacetate phenylacetylglutamate Any drug that is metabolized and excreted as a glucuronide
Nutritional/xenobiotic artifacts Nutritional support for failure to thrive Medium-chain triglycerides Medium chain dicarboxylic acids Additives to formula octenylsuccinic acid added to Nutramigen Products that make foods more palatable adipic acid added to yoghurt to make smooth, benzoic acid in soda to protect taste, metabolized to hippuric acid
Metabolomic Profile 1
Metabolomic Profile 2
Measurement of individual metabolites: targeted disease-related products of discovery investigations Requires a stable isotope labeled internal standard, [13C], [15N], [3H]
Ornithine trans carbamylase (OTC) deficiency X-linked urea cycle defect Males relatively easy to diagnose Females have variable X- chromosomal inactivation
Orotic Acid Molar mass =156.10 Internal standard, [1,3-15N] orotic acid, Molar mass = 158.10
Native and labeled spectra A bundance 1100000 1000000 Scan 956 (12.551 min): Orotic acid 254 900000 800000 700000 600000 native 357 500000 400000 73 300000 Abundance m /z--> 200000 100000 0 1100000 147 269 100 131 174 207 239 329 372 59 117 193 221 283 299 313 343 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 256 280 300 320 340 360 380 Scan 956 (12.551 min): 1,3-15 N Orotic acid 1000000 900000 800000 700000 600000 500000 73 Internal standard 359 400000 300000 m/z--> 200000 100000 0 147 59 271 101 131 175 207 241 331 87 117 161 193 221 285 301 315 345 374 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 300 320 340 360 380
Isotope dilution selected ion monitoring for gold standard quantification Abundance 1800000 12.514 Ion 254.00 (253.70 to 254.70): Orotic acid Abundance 180000 Ion 254.00 (253.70 to 254.70): 1209MT32.D\data.ms 160000 1400000 140000 1000000 120000 100000 600000 80000 60000 200000 0 Time--> Abundance 12.42 12.44 12.46 12.48 12.50 12.52 12.54 12.56 12.58 12.60 12.62 12.64 12.66 12.68 40000 20000 0 Time--> Abundance 12.514 12.599 12.4212.4412.4612.4812.5012.5212.5412.5612.5812.6012.6212.6412.6612.68 1800000 Ion 256.00 (255.70 to 256.70): Orotic acid 180000 160000 Ion 256.00 (255.70 to 256.70): 1209MT32.D\data.ms 12.514 1400000 140000 120000 1000000 100000 600000 12.514 80000 60000 Time--> 200000 0 12.42 12.44 12.46 12.48 12.50 12.52 12.54 12.56 12.58 12.60 12.62 12.64 12.66 12.68 40000 20000 0 Time--> 12.606 12.4212.4412.4612.4812.5012.5212.5412.5612.5812.6012.6212.6412.6612.68
Mass spectrometry for additional metabolic conditions Lysosomal enzymes- Gaucher, Pompe, Fabry disease- TMS Glycosylated proteins- carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein diseases- Time of Flight MS Acyl-CoA s, mitochondrial diseases-tms
Product Scan of Acetyl-CoA m/z = 810 507 m/z = 303 ACETYL_COA_DOU_3 1 (0.526) Cm (1) 303.2 100 54247424 Daughters of 810ES+ x10 5.42e7 % 201.0 135.9 7179008 4896256 159.0 2289920 428.1 6893312 0 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 750 800 850 m/z 809.9 201136
Neutral loss scan from wild-type mouse liver Free CoA C18:1-CoA IS 13C8-CoA IS C17-CoA C18-CoA C16-CoA Intens ity C2-CoA IS 13 C2CoA C4-CoA C6-CoA C12-CoA C10-CoA C16:1-CoA 3OH C20-CoA C22:1-CoA m/z
SCAD deficiency SCAD From Rinaldo, Matern, and Bennett. Annu. Rev. Physiol. 2002.
Andrew Palladino Ratio of acyl-coas in SCAD deficient/wt Mice
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