Robust and High-Throughput Method for Anionic Metabolite Profiling: Preventing Polyimide Aminolysis and Capillary Breakages under Alkaline Conditions in Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry

Capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) represents a high efficiency microscale separation platform for untargeted profiling of polar/ionic metabolites that is ideal for volume-restricted biological specimens with minimal sample workup. Despite these advantages, the long-term stability of CE-MS remains a major obstacle hampering its widespread application in metabolomics notably for routine analysis of anionic metabolites under...