750-MHZ H-1 AND H-1-C-13 NMR-SPECTROSCOPY OF HUMAN BLOOD-PLASMA

High-resolution 750 MHz H-1 NMR spectra of control human blood plasma have been measured and assigned by the concerted use of a range of spin-echo, two-dimensional J-resolved, and homonuclear and heteronuclear (H-1-C-13) correlation methods. The increased spectral dispersion and sensitivity at 750 MHz enable the assignment of numerous H-1 and C-13 resonances from many molecular species that cannot be detected at lower frequencies. This work presents the most comprehensive assignment of the H-1 NMR spectra of blood plasma yet achieved and includes the assignment of signals from 43 low M(r) metabolites, including many with complex or strongly coupled spin systems, New assignments are also provided from the 1H and C-13 NMR signals from several important macromolecular species in whole blood plasma, i.e., very-low-density, low-density, and high density lipoproteins, albumin, and alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein. The temperature dependence of the one-dimensional and spin-echo 750 MHz H-1 NMR spectra of plasma was investigated over the range 292-310 K. The H-1 NMR signals from the fatty acyl side chains of the lipoproteins increased substantially with temperature (hence also molecular mobility), with a disproportionate increase from lipids in low-density lipoprotein. Two-dimensional H-1-C-13 heteronuclear multiple quantum coherence spectroscopy at 292 and 310 K allowed both the direct detection of cholesterol and choline species bound in high-density lipoprotein and the assignment of their signals and confirmed the assignment of most of the lipoprotein resonances.