Introduction

Amino acids are key building blocks of life and play pivotal role in various metabolic pathways. They mostly act as intermediates often not directly involving proteins. Due to their chemical complexity and dynamic range, their reliable quantitative and qualitative analysis in biological fluids and tissues is crucial for nutritional information, compound identification and diagnostics.

For that purpose, a simple, elegant and thus far the most expeditious method for an invaluable amino acid analysis has been developed. LC/GC-MS based Metamino® kit offers comprehensive solution up to 75 metabolites including basic proteinogenic amino acids, biogenic amines and coenzymes with the possibility to a further analyte extension.