Abstract
High-throughput analysis of compound dissolved in DMSO and arrayed in multiwell plates for quality control (QC) purposes has widespread utility in drug discovery, ranging from the QC of assay-ready plates dispatched by compound management, to compound integrity check in the screening collection, to reaction monitoring of chemical syntheses in microtiter plates. Due to the large number of samples (thousands per batch) involved, these workflows can put a significant burden on the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) platform typically used. To achieve the required speed of seconds per sample, several chromatography-free MS approaches have previously been used with mixed results. In this study, we demonstrated the feasibility of acoustic ejection-mass spectrometry (AE-MS) in full-scan mode for high-throughput compound QC in miniaturized formats, featuring direct, contactless liquid sampling, minimal sample consumption, and ultrafast analytical speed. The sample consumption and analysis time by AE-MS represent, respectively, a 1000-fold and 30-fold reduction compared with LC-MS. In qualitative QC, AE-MS generated comparable results to conventional LC-MS in identifying the presence and absence of expected compounds. AE-MS also demonstrated its utility in relative quantifications of the same compound in serial dilution plates, or substrate in chemical synthesis. To facilitate the processing of a large amount of data generated by AE-MS, we have developed a data processing platform using commercially available tools. The platform demonstrated fast and straightforward data extraction, reviewing, and reporting, thus eliminating the need for the development of custom data processing tools. The overall AE-MS workflow has effectively eliminated the analytical bottleneck in the high-throughput compound QC work stream.
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