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Coenzyme A participates in catabolism of carbohydrate, fat and amino acids; biosynthesis of fatty acids, cholesterol and heme; and protein modification including acetylation and 4-phosphopantetheinylation. Despite CoA\u2019s critical functions, the regulation of CoA levels and the rate of CoA synthesis in different cell types and disease states are not well understood. One reason for this gap is that many acyl-CoA species are analytically challenging to measure due to factors including instability, poor ionization, and the wide range of biochemical properties conferred by different acyl chain lengths. In addition, most current methods do not support analysis of CoA isotopic labeling, which is required to quantify CoA synthesis rate or to measure absolute concentration using isotope-labeled internal standards. Here, we describe a method to quantify the concentration and isotopic labeling of total CoA, defined as the sum of CoASH plus all acyl-CoA species. Acyl-CoA species are hydrolyzed using sodium hydroxide to remove acyl chains, then CoA is derivatized on the thiol with N-ethylmaleimide (NEM). Following protein precipitation and solid phase extraction, samples are analyzed by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. This method is linear in a wide range that captures mouse tissue CoA levels, with accuracy within 15% error and precision below 15% relative standard deviation for both pure standards and tissue samples. We applied this method to measure total CoA concentration in five tissues from male and female mice, and total CoA synthesis rate in mouse liver via infusion of\n                  <jats:sup>13<\/jats:sup>\n                  C-\n                  <jats:sup>15<\/jats:sup>\n                  N-pantothenate. 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