The protocols describe high-performance liquid chromatography methods coupled to refractive index or mass spectrometric detection for studying metabolic reactions in complex lysate-based cell-free systems.
Dinglasan, J. L. N., Reeves, D. T., Hettich, R. L., Doktycz, M. J. Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Refractive Index or Mass Spectrometric Detection for Metabolite Profiling in Lysate-based Cell-free Systems. J. Vis. Exp. (175), e62852, doi:10.3791/62852 (2021).