A protocol is presented for simultaneously extracting metabolites, proteins, and lipids from a single soil sample, allowing reduced sample preparation times and enabling multi-omic mass spectrometry analyses of samples with limited quantities.
Nicora, C. D., Burnum-Johnson, K. E., Nakayasu, E. S., Casey, C. P., White III, R. A., Roy Chowdhury, T., Kyle, J. E., Kim, Y., Smith, R. D., Metz, T. O., Jansson, J. K., Baker, E. S. The MPLEx Protocol for Multi-omic Analyses of Soil Samples. J. Vis. Exp. (135), e57343, doi:10.3791/57343 (2018).