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Garrido PF, Castillo-Peinado LS, Priego-Capote F, Barrio I, Piñeiro Á, Domínguez-Santalla MJ, Rodríguez-Ruiz E, Garcia-Fandino R. Lipidomics signature in post-COVID patient sera and its influence on the prolonged inflammatory response. J Infect Public Health 2024; 17:588-600. [PMID: 38368647 DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2024.01.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Revised: 01/18/2024] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/20/2024] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The ongoing issues with post-COVID conditions (PCC), where symptoms persist long after the initial infection, highlight the need for research into blood lipid changes in these patients. While most studies focus on the acute phase of COVID-19, there's a significant lack of information on the lipidomic changes that occur in the later stages of the disease. Addressing this knowledge gap is critical for understanding the long-term effects of COVID-19 and could be key to developing personalized treatments for those suffering from PCC. METHODS We employed untargeted lipidomics to analyze plasma samples from 147 PCC patients, assessing nearly 400 polar lipids. Data mining (DM) and machine learning (ML) tools were utilized to decode the results and ascertain significant lipidomic patterns. RESULTS The study uncovered substantial changes in various lipid subclasses, presenting a detailed profile of the polar lipid fraction in PCC patients. These alterations correlated with ongoing inflammation and immune response. Notably, there were elevated levels of lysophosphatidylglycerols (LPGs) and phosphatidylethanolamines (PEs), and reduced levels of lysophosphatidylcholines (LPCs), suggesting these as potential lipid biomarkers for PCC. The lipidomic signatures indicated specific anionic lipid changes, implicating antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in inflammation. Associations between particular medications and symptoms were also suggested. Classification models, such as multinomial regression (MR) and random forest (RF), successfully differentiated between symptomatic and asymptomatic PCC groups using lipidomic profiles. CONCLUSIONS The study's groundbreaking discovery of specific lipidomic disruptions in PCC patients marks a significant stride in the quest to comprehend and combat this condition. The identified lipid biomarkers not only pave the way for novel diagnostic tools but also hold the promise to tailor individualized therapeutic strategies, potentially revolutionizing the clinical approach to managing PCC and improving patient care.
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- P F Garrido
- Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Joint Units IQFR-CSIC-BIFI, and GBsC-CSIC-BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50018, Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Córdoba, Annex C-3 Building, Campus of Rabanales, Córdoba 14071, Spain; Maimónides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC), Reina Sofía University Hospital, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Córdoba, Annex C-3 Building, Campus of Rabanales, Córdoba 14071, Spain; Maimónides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC), Reina Sofía University Hospital, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
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- Department of Mathematics, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa 48940, Spain; Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, BCAM, Bilbao 48009, Spain
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- Soft Matter & Molecular Biophysics Group, Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Internal Medicine Department, University Clinic Hospital of Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Galician Public Health System (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Intensive Care Medicine Department, University Clinic Hospital of Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Galician Public Health System (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Simulation, Life Support & Intensive Care Research Unit of Santiago de Compostela (SICRUS), Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain; CLINURSID Research Group, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials, Santiago de Compostela University, CIQUS, Spain.
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Maiellaro M, Bottillo G, Cavallo A, Camera E. Comparison between ammonium formate and ammonium fluoride in the analysis of stratum corneum lipids by reversed phase chromatography coupled with high resolution mass spectrometry. Sci Rep 2024; 14:40. [PMID: 38167931 PMCID: PMC10762128 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-50051-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024] Open
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Lipids are key constituents of the barrier function in the human stratum corneum (SC), which is the outermost layer of the epidermis and amenable to non-invasive sampling by tape stripping. The three major lipid classes in the SC, i.e., ceramides, fatty acids, and cholesterol, present equimolar concentration. Liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LCMS) is elective in profiling lipids in the SC in both positive and negative ion modes. Nevertheless, the latter one allows for the simultaneous detection of the three major epidermal components of the SC. Determination of ceramides in the SC poses analytical challenges due to their wide range of structures and concentrations especially in the case of limited sample amounts. Ammonium formate is a commonly used modifier added to the mobile phase to assist ionization. However, it introduces uncertainty in the identification of ceramides when operating in negative ion mode, even with high resolution MS. We tested the advantages of using fluoride in the lipid profiling of SC and unambiguous identification of ceramides subclasses. The use of fluoride enhanced the ionization of ceramides, regardless the specific substructure, solved misidentification issues, and was successfully applied to the simultaneous detection of all three lipid classes in the human SC.
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- Miriam Maiellaro
- Laboratory of Cutaneous Physiopathology, San Gallicano Dermatological Institute - IRCCS, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Cutaneous Physiopathology, San Gallicano Dermatological Institute - IRCCS, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Cutaneous Physiopathology, San Gallicano Dermatological Institute - IRCCS, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Cutaneous Physiopathology, San Gallicano Dermatological Institute - IRCCS, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144, Rome, Italy.
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Kleiboeker BA, Frankfater C, Davey ME, Hsu FF. Lipidomic analysis of Porphyromonas gingivalis reveals novel glycerol bisphosphoceramide, phosphatidyl-, and phosphoglycerol dipeptide lipid families. J Lipid Res 2023; 64:100470. [PMID: 37924978 PMCID: PMC10757044 DOI: 10.1016/j.jlr.2023.100470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2023] [Revised: 10/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Porphyromonas gingivalis, like other members of the phylum Bacteroidetes (synonym Bacteroidota), synthesizes several classes of dihydroceramides and peptidolipids. Using a similar strategy as that recently used to delimit the lipidome of its close relative Bacteroides fragilis, we applied linear ion trap multiple-stage mass spectrometry (linear ion trap MSn) with high-resolution mass spectrometry, to structurally characterize the complete lipidome of P. gingivalis and compare it to B. fragilis. This analysis discovered that the P. gingivalis lipidome consists of several previously unidentified lipid families, including dihydroceramide-1-phosphophate, acylated dihydroceramide-1-phosphophate, phosphoglycerol glycylserine lipid, and bis(phosphodihydroceramide) glycerol. Interestingly, we also found a novel sphingolipid family containing a polyunsaturated long-chain base, and a new lipoglycylserine phosphatic acid containing unsaturated acyl chains not reported for the lipid family. The comprehensive coverage of the lipidome of P. gingivalis conducted in this study has revealed more than 140 lipid species including several novel lipids in over 20 lipid families/subfamilies.
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- Brian A Kleiboeker
- Mass Spectrometry Resource, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Mass Spectrometry Resource, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Mass Spectrometry Resource, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
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Liyanage OT, Xia C, Ringler S, Stahl B, Costello CE. Defining the Ceramide Composition of Bovine and Human Milk Gangliosides by Direct Infusion ESI-CID Tandem Mass Spectrometry of Native and Permethylated Molecular Species. Anal Chem 2023; 95:16465-16473. [PMID: 37877731 PMCID: PMC10652237 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c00737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Revised: 09/14/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 10/26/2023]
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Gangliosides are glycosphingolipids composed of an oligosaccharide that contains one or more sialic acid residues and is linked to a ceramide, a lipid composed of a long chain base (LCB) that bears an amide-linked fatty acyl group (FA). The ceramide portions of gangliosides are embedded in cell membranes; the exposed glycans interact with the extracellular environment. Gangliosides play a myriad of roles in activities such as cell-cell communication, formation of lipid rafts, cellular adhesion, calcium homeostasis, host-pathogen interaction, and viral invasion. Although the epitopes responsible for the interactions of gangliosides are located in the glycan, the epitope presentation is strongly influenced by the orientation of the attached ceramide within the lipid membrane, a feature that depends on the details of its structure, that is, the specific LCB and FA. Since the identities of both the glycan and the ceramide affect the activity of gangliosides, it is important to characterize the individual intact molecular forms. We report here a mass spectrometry-based method that combines the information gained from low-energy collision-induced dissociation (CID) measurements for the determination of the glycan with tandem mass spectra obtained at stepped higher-energy CID for the detailed characterization of the LCB and FA components of intact gangliosides. We provide results from applications of this method to the analysis of gangliosides present in bovine and human milk in order to demonstrate the assignment of LCB and FA for intact gangliosides and differential detection of isomeric ceramide structures.
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- O. Tara Liyanage
- Center
for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston
University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, United States
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- Center
for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston
University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, United States
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- Danone
Nutricia Research, Utrecht 3584 CT, The Netherlands
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- Center
for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston
University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, United States
- Danone
Nutricia Research, Utrecht 3584 CT, The Netherlands
- Department
of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3584 CS, The Netherlands
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- Center
for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston
University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, United States
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Villasanta-Gonzalez A, Mora-Ortiz M, Alcala-Diaz JF, Rivas-Garcia L, Torres-Peña JD, Lopez-Bascon A, Calderon-Santiago M, Arenas-Larriva AP, Priego-Capote F, Malagon MM, Eichelmann F, Perez-Martinez P, Delgado-Lista J, Schulze MB, Camargo A, Lopez-Miranda J. Plasma lipidic fingerprint associated with type 2 diabetes in patients with coronary heart disease: CORDIOPREV study. Cardiovasc Diabetol 2023; 22:199. [PMID: 37537576 PMCID: PMC10401778 DOI: 10.1186/s12933-023-01933-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2023] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVE We aimed to identify a lipidic profile associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) development in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients, to provide a new, highly sensitive model which could be used in clinical practice to identify patients at T2DM risk. METHODS This study considered the 462 patients of the CORDIOPREV study (CHD patients) who were not diabetic at the beginning of the intervention. In total, 107 of them developed T2DM after a median follow-up of 60 months. They were diagnosed using the American Diabetes Association criteria. A novel lipidomic methodology employing liquid chromatography (LC) separation followed by HESI, and detection by mass spectrometry (MS) was used to annotate the lipids at the isomer level. The patients were then classified into a Training and a Validation Set (60-40). Next, a Random Survival Forest (RSF) was carried out to detect the lipidic isomers with the lowest prediction error, these lipids were then used to build a Lipidomic Risk (LR) score which was evaluated through a Cox. Finally, a production model combining the clinical variables of interest, and the lipidic species was carried out. RESULTS LC-tandem MS annotated 440 lipid species. From those, the RSF identified 15 lipid species with the lowest prediction error. These lipids were combined in an LR score which showed association with the development of T2DM. The LR hazard ratio per unit standard deviation was 2.87 and 1.43, in the Training and Validation Set respectively. Likewise, patients with higher LR Score values had lower insulin sensitivity (P = 0.006) and higher liver insulin resistance (P = 0.005). The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve obtained by combining clinical variables and the selected lipidic isomers using a generalised lineal model had an area under the curve (AUC) of 81.3%. CONCLUSION Our study showed the potential of comprehensive lipidomic analysis in identifying patients at risk of developing T2DM. In addition, the lipid species combined with clinical variables provided a new, highly sensitive model which can be used in clinical practice to identify patients at T2DM risk. Moreover, these results also indicate that we need to look closely at isomers to understand the role of this specific compound in T2DM development. Trials registration NCT00924937.
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- Alejandro Villasanta-Gonzalez
- Lipids and Atherosclerosis Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Instituto Maimonides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Lipids and Atherosclerosis Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Instituto Maimonides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Lipids and Atherosclerosis Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Instituto Maimonides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Córdoba, Spain
- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Lipids and Atherosclerosis Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Instituto Maimonides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Lipids and Atherosclerosis Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Instituto Maimonides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Córdoba, Spain
- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry and Nanochemistry University Institute, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- CIBER de Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERFES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry and Nanochemistry University Institute, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- CIBER de Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERFES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Lipids and Atherosclerosis Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Instituto Maimonides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry and Nanochemistry University Institute, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- CIBER de Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERFES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Maimonides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Córdoba, Spain
- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
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- German Center for Diabetes Research, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Nuthetal, Germany
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- Lipids and Atherosclerosis Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Instituto Maimonides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Córdoba, Spain
- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Lipids and Atherosclerosis Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Instituto Maimonides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Córdoba, Spain
- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- German Center for Diabetes Research, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Nuthetal, Germany
- Germany Institute of Nutrition Science, University of Potsdam, Nuthetal, Germany
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- Lipids and Atherosclerosis Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.
- Instituto Maimonides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Córdoba, Spain.
- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
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- Lipids and Atherosclerosis Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain.
- Instituto Maimonides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Córdoba, Spain.
- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
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Zhu F, Zhao B, Hu B, Zhang Y, Xue B, Wang H, Chen Q. Review of available "extraction + purification" methods of natural ceramides and their feasibility for sewage sludge analysis. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2023; 30:68022-68053. [PMID: 37147548 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-26900-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
Abstract
Natural ceramide, a biologically active compound present in plants, has been used widely in food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries. Abundant ceramide has been detected in sewage sludge, which has inspired the idea to recycle ceramide from it. Therefore, the methods of extracting, purifying, and detecting ceramides from plants were reviewed, with the aim to establish methods to get condensed ceramide from sludge. Ceramide extraction methods include traditional methods (maceration, reflux, and Soxhlet extraction) and green technologies (ultrasound-assisted, microwave-assisted, and supercritical fluid extraction). In the past two decades, more than 70% of the articles have used traditional methods. However, green extraction methods are gradually improved and showed high extraction efficiency with lower solvent consumed. The preferred technique for ceramide purification is chromatography. Common solvent systems include chloroform-methanol, n-hexane-ethyl acetate, petroleum ether-ethyl acetate, and petroleum ether-acetone. For structural determination of ceramide, infrared spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry are used in combination. Among quantitative analysis methods for ceramide, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry was the most accurate. This review concludes that with our prilemenary experiment results it is feasible to apply the plant "extraction + purification" process of ceramide to sludge, but more optimization need to be performed to get better results.
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- Fenfen Zhu
- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China.
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of ESPC, Center for Sensor Technology of Environment and Health, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
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Speculation of Sphingolipids in Capsanthin by Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography Coupled with Electrospray Ionization-Quadrupole-Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28031010. [PMID: 36770678 PMCID: PMC9920690 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28031010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2022] [Revised: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
Abstract
Sphingolipids are constituents of cellular membranes and play important roles in cells. As nutraceutical compounds in foods, sphingolipids have been proven to be critical for human health. Therefore, the sphingolipids content of capsanthin was established based on ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with electrospray ionization-quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometry. A total number of 40 sphingolipids were successfully identified, including 20 Glucosylceramides and 20 Ceramides. The predominant GlcCers contain 4-hydroxy-8-sphingenine t18:1 (8) with different structures of α-OH fatty acids. For the Cers, the main long-chain bases are 4-hydroxy-8-sphingenine t18:1 (8) and 4-hydroxysphingenine (t18:0) with different structures of α-OH or α, β-di (OH) fatty acids.
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Lu D, Fujiwara H, Lodhi IJ, Hsu FF. Isolation and Mass Spectrometry-Based Profiling of Major Lipids in Brown Adipose Tissue. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2662:219-239. [PMID: 37076685 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3167-6_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/21/2023]
Abstract
Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is an important regulator of metabolic homeostasis through its role in adaptive thermogenesis and control of whole-body glucose metabolism. Lipids play multiple roles in BAT functions, including serving as a fuel source for thermogenesis, mediating inter-organelle cross talk, and acting as BAT-derived signaling molecules that influence systemic energy metabolism. Profiling of various lipids in BAT under distinct metabolic states could provide new insights into their roles in the biology of the thermogenic fat. In this chapter, we describe a step-by-step workflow starting from sample preparations to mass spectrometry-based analysis of fatty acids and phospholipids in BAT.
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- Dongliang Lu
- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
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Melero-Fernandez de Mera RM, Villaseñor A, Rojo D, Carrión-Navarro J, Gradillas A, Ayuso-Sacido A, Barbas C. Ceramide Composition in Exosomes for Characterization of Glioblastoma Stem-Like Cell Phenotypes. Front Oncol 2022; 11:788100. [PMID: 35127492 PMCID: PMC8814423 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.788100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most malignant central nervous system tumor types. Comparative analysis of GBM tissues has rendered four major molecular subtypes. From them, two molecular subtypes are mainly found in their glioblastoma cancer stem-like cells (GSCs) derived in vitro: proneural (PN) and mesenchymal (MES) with nodular (MES-N) and semi-nodular (MES-SN) disseminations, which exhibit different metabolic, growth, and malignancy properties. Many studies suggest that cancer cells communicate between them, and the surrounding microenvironment, via exosomes. Identifying molecular markers that allow the specific isolation of GSC-derived exosomes is key in the development of new therapies. However, the differential exosome composition produced by main GSCs remains unknown. The aim of this study was to determine ceramide (Cer) composition, one of the critical lipids in both cells and their cell-derived exosomes, from the main three GSC phenotypes using mass spectrometry-based lipidomics. GSCs from human tissue samples and their cell-derived exosomes were measured using ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UHPLC/Q-TOF-MS) in an untargeted analysis. Complete characterization of the ceramide profile, in both cells and cell-derived exosomes from GSC phenotypes, showed differential distributions among them. Results indicate that such differences of ceramide are chain-length dependent. Significant changes for the C16 Cer and C24:1 Cer and their ratio were observed among GSC phenotypes, being different for cells and their cell-derived exosomes.
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- Raquel M Melero-Fernandez de Mera
- Centre for Metabolomics and Bioanalysis (CEMBIO), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Madrid, Spain.,Unidad de Tumores Sólidos Infantiles, Instituto de Investigación de Enfermedades Raras (IIER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (CB06/07/1009; CIBERER-ISCIII), Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Metabolomics and Bioanalysis (CEMBIO), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Madrid, Spain.,Institute of Applied Molecular Medicine (IMMA), Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad San Pablo CEU, CEU Universities, Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Metabolomics and Bioanalysis (CEMBIO), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Madrid, Spain
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- Brain Tumor Laboratory, Faculty of Experimental Sciences and Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Metabolomics and Bioanalysis (CEMBIO), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Madrid, Spain
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- Brain Tumor Laboratory, Faculty of Experimental Sciences and Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain.,Fundación Vithas, Grupo Vithas Hospitales, Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Metabolomics and Bioanalysis (CEMBIO), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Madrid, Spain
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Creydt M, Lautner S, Fromm J, Fischer M. Wood profiling by non-targeted liquid chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry: Part 2, Detection of the geographical origin of spruce wood (Picea abies) by determination of metabolite pattern. J Chromatogr A 2021; 1663:462737. [PMID: 34968956 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2021.462737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2021] [Revised: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 12/04/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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A non-targeted metabolomics-based approach using liquid chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry was used to authenticate spruce wood (Picea abies) from two geographic source areas. The two sample sites were located in Germany and only 250 km apart. In order to achieve the highest possible metabolite coverage, the spruces samples were measured with four different methods using liquid chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry. In this way, a total of approximately 4,100 features were detected, which included non-polar, polar, and intermediate-polar metabolites. Using supervised multivariate methods, a distinction between the two sample groups could be achieved on the basis of non-polar data sets. The major metabolites contributing to differentiation were identified by MS/MS experiments and were from the following classes of compounds: ceramides, fatty acids, glycerolipids, and phytosterols. Based on the soil descriptions of the two sites, it was concluded that there is probably a close relationship between nutrient availability and the differences in concentration of the marker compounds. The results show that a metabolomics-based approach is also suitable for differentiation of origin, even if the sample sites are close to each other.
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- Marina Creydt
- Hamburg School of Food Science - Institute of Food Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Grindelallee 117, 20146 Hamburg, Germany; Cluster of Excellence, Understanding Written Artefacts, University of Hamburg, Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.
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- Applied Wood Biology, Faculty of Wood Science and Technology, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Schicklerstrasse 5, 16225 Eberswalde, Germany
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- Cluster of Excellence, Understanding Written Artefacts, University of Hamburg, Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg, Germany; Institute of Wood Science, Research Unit Wood Biology, University of Hamburg, Leuschnerstrasse 91d, 21031, Hamburg, Germany
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- Hamburg School of Food Science - Institute of Food Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Grindelallee 117, 20146 Hamburg, Germany; Cluster of Excellence, Understanding Written Artefacts, University of Hamburg, Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg, Germany
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Mehendale N, Mallik R, Kamat SS. Mapping Sphingolipid Metabolism Pathways during Phagosomal Maturation. ACS Chem Biol 2021; 16:2757-2765. [PMID: 34647453 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.1c00393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Phagocytosis is an important physiological process, which, in higher organisms, is a means of fighting infections and clearing cellular debris. During phagocytosis, detrimental foreign particles (e.g. pathogens and apoptotic cells) are engulfed by phagocytes (e.g. macrophages), enclosed in membrane-bound vesicles called phagosomes, and transported to the lysosome for eventual detoxification. During this well-choreographed process, the nascent phagosome (also called early phagosome, EP) undergoes a series of spatiotemporally regulated changes in its protein and lipid composition and matures into a late phagosome (LP), which subsequently fuses with the lysosomal membrane to form the phagolysosome. While several elegant proteomic studies have identified the role of unique proteins during phagosomal maturation, the corresponding lipidomic studies are sparse. Recently, we reported a comparative lipidomic analysis between EPs and LPs and showed that ceramides are enriched on the LPs. Further, we found that this ceramide accumulation on LPs was orchestrated by ceramide synthase 2, inhibition of which hampers phagosomal maturation. Following up on this study, here, using biochemical assays, we first show that the increased ceramidase activity on EPs also significantly contributes to the accumulation of ceramides on LPs. Next, leveraging lipidomics, we show that de novo ceramide synthesis does not significantly contribute to the ceramide accumulation on LPs, while concomitant to increased ceramides, glucosylceramides are substantially elevated on LPs. We validate this interesting finding using biochemical assays and show that LPs indeed have heightened glucosylceramide synthase activity. Taken together, our studies provide interesting insights and possible new roles of sphingolipid metabolism during phagosomal maturation.
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- Neelay Mehendale
- Department of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune 411008, India
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- Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
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- Department of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune 411008, India
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Automated data-driven mass spectrometry for improved analysis of lipids with dual dissociation techniques. J Mass Spectrom Adv Clin Lab 2021; 22:43-49. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmsacl.2021.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2021] [Revised: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 10/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Köfeler HC, Ahrends R, Baker ES, Ekroos K, Han X, Hoffmann N, Holčapek M, Wenk MR, Liebisch G. Recommendations for good practice in MS-based lipidomics. J Lipid Res 2021; 62:100138. [PMID: 34662536 PMCID: PMC8585648 DOI: 10.1016/j.jlr.2021.100138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2021] [Revised: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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In the last 2 decades, lipidomics has become one of the fastest expanding scientific disciplines in biomedical research. With an increasing number of new research groups to the field, it is even more important to design guidelines for assuring high standards of data quality. The Lipidomics Standards Initiative is a community-based endeavor for the coordination of development of these best practice guidelines in lipidomics and is embedded within the International Lipidomics Society. It is the intention of this review to highlight the most quality-relevant aspects of the lipidomics workflow, including preanalytics, sample preparation, MS, and lipid species identification and quantitation. Furthermore, this review just does not only highlights examples of best practice but also sheds light on strengths, drawbacks, and pitfalls in the lipidomic analysis workflow. While this review is neither designed to be a step-by-step protocol by itself nor dedicated to a specific application of lipidomics, it should nevertheless provide the interested reader with links and original publications to obtain a comprehensive overview concerning the state-of-the-art practices in the field.
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- Harald C Köfeler
- Core Facility Mass Spectrometry, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
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- Department for Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Lipidomics Consulting Ltd., Esbo, Finland
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- Barshop Inst Longev & Aging Studies, Univ Texas Hlth Sci Ctr San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Center for Biotechnology, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic
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- Singapore Lipidomics Incubator (SLING), Department of Biochemistry, YLL School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Regensburg University Hospital, Regensburg, Germany.
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Comprehensive Mouse Skin Ceramide Analysis on a Solid-Phase and TLC Separation with High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Platform. Methods Mol Biol 2021. [PMID: 33954945 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1410-5_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Lipidomic analyses by mass spectrometry (MS) of epidermal ceramides, a large family of lipids crucial to the permeability barrier of the skin, have been reported previously. To ensure the accuracy of lipid identification, we describe here the isolation of mouse newborn epidermal lipids followed by fractionation with solid-phase extraction columns, and lipidomic analyses by high-resolution MS for structural identification. We also describe here the employment of thin layer chromatography, an old but useful tool, in facilitating the structural characterization of the epidermal lipid species by MS.
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Ceramide Analysis by Multiple Linked-Scan Mass Spectrometry Using a Tandem Quadrupole Instrument. Methods Mol Biol 2021. [PMID: 33954944 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1410-5_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Ceramides are a special class of sphingolipids and play a central role in sphingolipid metabolism, and have diverse structures. In this book chapter, tandem quadrupole mass spectrometric approaches applying multiple linked scannings including various constant neutral loss scan (NLS) and precursor ion scan (PIS), the unique applicable feature of a triple-stage quadrupole (TSQ) instrument for analysis of ceramides desorbed as [M-H]- and [M+Li]+ ions are described. These multiple dimensional tandem mass spectrometric approaches are fully adapted to the conventional shotgun lipidomics workflow with minimal or without prior chromatographic separation to profile ceramide molecules, and thus detection of a whole class of ceramide or various specific ceramide subclasses in crude lipid extract can be achieved. With addition of internal standard(s), semi-quantitation of ceramide in the lipid extract of biological origin is possible. Examples have shown promise in ceramide profiling of several whole lipid extracts from porcine brain, the model Dictyostelium Discoideum cells for cancer study, and skin.
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Hsu FF. Electrospray ionization with higher-energy collision dissociation tandem mass spectrometry toward characterization of ceramides as [M + Li] + ions: Mechanisms of fragmentation and structural identification. Anal Chim Acta 2021; 1142:221-234. [PMID: 33280700 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2020.09.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2020] [Revised: 09/14/2020] [Accepted: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Ceramide is a huge lipid family consisting of diversified structures in which various modifications are seen in the fatty acyl chain and the long chain base (LCB). In this contribution, a higher collision energy (HCD) linear ion-trap mass spectrometric method (LIT MSn) was applied to study the mechanisms underlying the fragmentation processes of ceramide molecules in 12 subclasses, which were desorbed by ESI as the [M + Li]+ ions. Multiple sets of fragment ions reflecting the fatty acyl chain and LCB were observed in the HCD MS2 spectra for all the ceramide classes, resulting in unambiguous definition of the ceramide structures, including the chain length and the modification (α-hydroxy-, β-hydroxy-, ω-hydroxy-FA) of the fatty acyl moiety, and the types of LCB (sphingosine, phytosphigosine, 6-hydroxy-sphingosine). Thereby, this approach permits differentiation of isomeric structures and ceramide species in the biological specimen can be unveiled in detail. By application of sequential MS3, the double bond position along the fatty acyl chain of the molecule can be located, and a complete structural characterization of ceramides can be achieved.
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- Fong-Fu Hsu
- Mass Spectrometry Resource, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA.
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Nielsen IØ, Vidas Olsen A, Dicroce-Giacobini J, Papaleo E, Andersen KK, Jäättelä M, Maeda K, Bilgin M. Comprehensive Evaluation of a Quantitative Shotgun Lipidomics Platform for Mammalian Sample Analysis on a High-Resolution Mass Spectrometer. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 31:894-907. [PMID: 32129994 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.9b00136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Shotgun lipidomics is a powerful tool that enables simultaneous and fast quantification of diverse lipid classes through mass spectrometry based analyses of directly infused crude lipid extracts. We present here a shotgun lipidomics platform established to quantify 38 lipid classes belonging to four lipid categories present in mammalian samples and show the fine-tuning and comprehensive evaluation of its experimental parameters and performance. We first determined for all the targeted lipid classes the collision energy levels optimal for the recording of their lipid class- and species-specific fragment ions and fine-tuned the energy levels applied in the platform. We then performed a series of titrations to define the boundaries of linear signal response for the targeted lipid classes, and demonstrated that the dynamic quantification range spanned more than 3 orders of magnitude and reached sub picomole levels for 35 lipid classes. The platform identified 273, 261, and 287 lipid species in brain, plasma, and cultured fibroblast samples, respectively, at the respective optimal working sample amounts. The platform properly quantified the majority of these identified lipid species, while lipid species measured to be below the limit of quantification were efficiently removed from the data sets by the use of statistical analyses of data reproducibility or a cutoff threshold. Finally, we demonstrated that a series of parameters of cell culture conditions influence lipidomics outcomes, including confluency, medium supplements, and use of transfection reagents. The present study provides a guideline for setting up and using a simple and efficient platform for quantitatively exploring the mammalian lipidome.
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- Inger Ødum Nielsen
- Unit for Cell Death and Metabolism, Center for Autophagy, Recycling and Disease, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark
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- Computational Biology Laboratory, Center for Autophagy, Recycling and Disease, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark
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- Unit for Cell Death and Metabolism, Center for Autophagy, Recycling and Disease, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark
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- Computational Biology Laboratory, Center for Autophagy, Recycling and Disease, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark
- Translational Disease Systems Biology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2200, Denmark
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- Unit for Statistics and Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark
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- Unit for Cell Death and Metabolism, Center for Autophagy, Recycling and Disease, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2200, Denmark
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- Unit for Cell Death and Metabolism, Center for Autophagy, Recycling and Disease, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark
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- Unit for Cell Death and Metabolism, Center for Autophagy, Recycling and Disease, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark
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López-Bascón MA, Calderón-Santiago M, Díaz-Lozano A, Camargo A, López-Miranda J, Priego-Capote F. Development of a qualitative/quantitative strategy for comprehensive determination of polar lipids by LC-MS/MS in human plasma. Anal Bioanal Chem 2019; 412:489-498. [PMID: 31760450 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-019-02261-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Revised: 10/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Polar lipids, especially glycerophospholipids, constitute the main components of cell membranes and are precursors of signaling molecules in many cellular and physiological processes. For this reason, the development of methods with high capability for detection of polar lipids in biological samples is required. In this research, the objective was to develop a method for comprehensive qualitative/quantitative determination of polar lipids in plasma by a combination of acquisition methods with a triple quadrupole mass analyzer. The strategy was optimized in two steps: (a) a first step for detection of lipids by monitoring selective fragmentation patterns representative of each lipid family and (b) a second step for confirmation of lipid species by detection and identification of product ions associated with the conjugated fatty acids. The acquisition list was divided into two multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) methods to ensure the detection of all transitions with suited instrumental sensitivity according to chromatographic retention time and relative abundance in plasma. The combination of the two MRM methods allowed the detection of 398 polar lipids in plasma in 64 min. Precision, estimated as within-day variability, was below 6.8% for all determined lipid families, while between-day variability was below 24.0%. This strategy has been applied to a cohort formed by 384 individuals in order to obtain a qualitative and quantitative distribution of polar lipids in human plasma. The most concentrated lipid families in relative terms were lysophospholipids, plasmalogens, and phosphatydilcholines, with mean relative concentration of 58.0, 17.1, and 8.3%, respectively. Then, sphingomyelins and phosphatidylethanolamines reported a relative concentration of 2.0%, followed by phosphatidylserines, with 1.1%. Graphical abstract.
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- M A López-Bascón
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain.,Maimónides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC)/University of Córdoba/Reina Sofía University Hospital, 14004, Córdoba, Spain.,CeiA3 Agroalimentary Excellence Campus, University of Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain.,CIBER Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERfes), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain. .,Maimónides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC)/University of Córdoba/Reina Sofía University Hospital, 14004, Córdoba, Spain. .,CeiA3 Agroalimentary Excellence Campus, University of Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain. .,CIBER Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERfes), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220, Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain.,Maimónides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC)/University of Córdoba/Reina Sofía University Hospital, 14004, Córdoba, Spain.,CeiA3 Agroalimentary Excellence Campus, University of Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain.,CIBER Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERfes), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220, Madrid, Spain
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- Maimónides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC)/University of Córdoba/Reina Sofía University Hospital, 14004, Córdoba, Spain.,CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220, Madrid, Spain
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- Maimónides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC)/University of Córdoba/Reina Sofía University Hospital, 14004, Córdoba, Spain.,CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain. .,Maimónides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC)/University of Córdoba/Reina Sofía University Hospital, 14004, Córdoba, Spain. .,CeiA3 Agroalimentary Excellence Campus, University of Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain. .,CIBER Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERfes), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220, Madrid, Spain.
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Calvano CD, Ventura G, Sardanelli AM, Losito I, Palmisano F, Cataldi TRI. Identification of neutral and acidic glycosphingolipids in the human dermal fibroblasts. Anal Biochem 2019; 581:113348. [PMID: 31251925 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2019.113348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2019] [Revised: 06/20/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Skin fibroblasts are recognized as a valuable model of primary human cells able of mirroring the chronological and biological aging. Here, a lipidomic study of glycosphingolipids (GSL) occurring in the easily accessible human dermal fibroblasts (HDF) is presented. Reversed-phase liquid chromatography with negative electrospray ionization (RPLC-ESI) coupled to either orbitrap or linear ion-trap multiple-stage mass spectrometry was applied to characterize GSL in commercially adult and neonatal primary human fibroblast cells and in skin samples taken from an adult volunteer. Collision-induced dissociation in negative ion mode allowed us to get information on the monosaccharide number and ceramide composition, whereas tandem mass spectra on the ceramide anion was useful to identify the sphingoid base. Nearly sixty endogenous GSL species were successfully recognized, namely 33 hexosyl-ceramides (i.e., HexCer, Hex2Cer and Hex3Cer) and 24 gangliosides as monosialic acid GM1, GM2 and GM3, along with 5 globosides Gb4. An average content of GSLs was attained and the most representative GSL in skin fibroblasts were Hex3Cer, also known as Gb3Cer, followed by Gb4, HexCer and Hex2Cer , while gangliosides were barely quantifiable. The most abundant GSLs in the examined cell lines share the same ceramide base (i.e. d18:1) and the relative content was d18:1/24:1 > d18:1/24:0 > d18:1/16:0 > d18:1/22:0.
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- Cosima Damiana Calvano
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy; Centro Interdipartimentale SMART, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sense Organs, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy; Department of Medicine, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy; Centro Interdipartimentale SMART, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy; Centro Interdipartimentale SMART, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy; Centro Interdipartimentale SMART, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy.
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Jamin EL, Jacques C, Jourdes L, Tabet JC, Borotra N, Bessou-Touya S, Debrauwer L, Duplan H. Identification of lipids of the stratum corneum by high performance thin layer chromatography and mass spectrometry. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2019; 25:278-290. [PMID: 30545248 DOI: 10.1177/1469066718815380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The stratum corneum, the outermost layer of the epidermis, is the most important skin barrier against exogenous physical and chemical effects, in addition to protecting against dehydration. Ceramides are integral parts of the intercellular lipid lamellae of the stratum corneum and play an important role in the barrier function of mammalian skin. Ceramides are sphingolipids consisting of sphingoid bases linked to fatty acids by an amide bond. Typical sphingoid bases in the skin are composed of dihydrosphingosine, sphingosine, phytosphingosine, and 6-hydroxysphingosine, and the fatty acid acyl chains are composed of non-hydroxy fatty acid, α-hydroxy fatty acid, ω-hydroxy fatty acid, and esterified ω-hydroxy fatty acid. Analytical methods, such as gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, high performance thin layer chromatography with UV detection, and liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry, have been developed for the identification and quantification of ceramides in the stratum corneum. However, only a few publications relate to the mass fragmentation patterns specific to ceramide types to determine the structure of skin ceramides. Moreover, these studies provide very limited structural information and only for some ceramides. Therefore, the aim of our study was to develop a quick and easy method of quantification of ceramides, cholesterol, and free fatty acids by high performance thin layer chromatography with ultraviolet detection. High performance thin layer chromatography with ultraviolet detection was also coupled with mass spectrometry using negative ionization by electrospray and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) for identification of ceramides' structure.
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- Emilien L Jamin
- 1 Toxalim (Research Centre in Food Toxicology), Université de Toulouse, INRA, ENVT, INP-Purpan, UPS, Toulouse, France
- 2 Axiom Platform, MetaToul-MetaboHUB, National Infrastructure for Metabolomics and Fluxomics, Toulouse, France
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- 3 Pierre Fabre Dermo-cosmétique, Pharmacology Unit, Toulouse, France
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- 3 Pierre Fabre Dermo-cosmétique, Pharmacology Unit, Toulouse, France
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- 4 Service de Pharmacologie et d'Immunoanalyse (SPI), Laboratoire d'Etude du Métabolisme des Médicaments, CEA, INRA, Université Paris Saclay, MetaboHUB, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- 5 Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, IPCM, Paris, France
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- 3 Pierre Fabre Dermo-cosmétique, Pharmacology Unit, Toulouse, France
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- 1 Toxalim (Research Centre in Food Toxicology), Université de Toulouse, INRA, ENVT, INP-Purpan, UPS, Toulouse, France
- 2 Axiom Platform, MetaToul-MetaboHUB, National Infrastructure for Metabolomics and Fluxomics, Toulouse, France
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- 3 Pierre Fabre Dermo-cosmétique, Pharmacology Unit, Toulouse, France
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Hänel V, Pendleton C, Witting M. The sphingolipidome of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. Chem Phys Lipids 2019; 222:15-22. [PMID: 31028715 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2019.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2019] [Revised: 04/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Sphingolipids are important lipids and integral members of membranes, where they form small microdomains called lipid rafts. These rafts are enriched in cholesterol and sphingolipids, which influences biophysical properties. Interestingly, the membranes of the biomedical model organism Caenorhabditis elegans contain only low amounts of cholesterol. Sphingolipids in C. elegans are based on an unusual C17iso branched sphingoid base. In order to analyze and the sphingolipidome of C. elegans in more detail, we performed fractionation of lipid extracts and depletion of glycero- and glycerophospholipids together with in-depth analysis using UPLC-UHR-ToF-MS. In total we were able to detect 82 different sphingolipids from different classes, including several isomeric species.
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- Victoria Hänel
- Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85674 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85674 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85674 Neuherberg, Germany; Chair of Analytical Food Chemistry, Technische Universität München, Maximus-von-Imhof-Forum 2, 85354 Freising, Germany.
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Harazim E, Vrkoslav V, Buděšínský M, Harazim P, Svoboda M, Plavka R, Bosáková Z, Cvačka J. Nonhydroxylated 1- O-acylceramides in vernix caseosa. J Lipid Res 2018; 59:2164-2173. [PMID: 30254076 PMCID: PMC6210899 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m088864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2018] [Revised: 09/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that coats the skin of newborn babies, has an extremely complex lipid composition. We have explored these lipids and identified nonhydroxylated 1-O-acylceramides (1-O-ENSs) as a new class of lipids in vernix caseosa. These ceramides mostly contain saturated C11-C38 ester-linked (1-O) acyls, saturated C12-C39 amide-linked acyls, and C16-C24 sphingoid bases. Because their fatty acyl chains are frequently branched, numerous molecular species were separable and detectable by HPLC/MS: we found more than 2,300 molecular species, 972 of which were structurally characterized. The most abundant 1-O-ENSs contained straight-chain and branched fatty acyls with 20, 22, 24, or 26 carbons in the 1-O position, 24 or 26 carbons in the N position, and sphingosine. The 1-O-ENSs were isolated using multistep TLC and HPLC and they accounted for 1% of the total lipid extract. The molecular species of 1-O-ENSs were separated on a C18 HPLC column using an acetonitrile/propan-2-ol gradient and detected by APCI-MS, and the structures were elucidated by high-resolution and tandem MS. Medium-polarity 1-O-ENSs likely contribute to the cohesiveness and to the waterproofing and moisturizing properties of vernix caseosa.
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- Eva Harazim
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-166 10 Praha 6, Czech Republic
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, CZ-128 43 Praha 2, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-166 10 Praha 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-166 10 Praha 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Concrete and Masonry Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ-166 29 Praha 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-166 10 Praha 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, CZ-128 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, CZ-128 43 Praha 2, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-166 10 Praha 6, Czech Republic
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, CZ-128 43 Praha 2, Czech Republic
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Hsu FF. Mass spectrometry-based shotgun lipidomics - a critical review from the technical point of view. Anal Bioanal Chem 2018; 410:6387-6409. [PMID: 30094786 PMCID: PMC6195124 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-018-1252-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2018] [Revised: 07/03/2018] [Accepted: 07/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Over the past decade, mass spectrometry (MS)-based "shotgun lipidomics" has emerged as a powerful tool for quantitative and qualitative analysis of the complex lipids in the biological system. The aim of this critical review is to give the interested reader a concise overview of the current state of the technology, focused on lipidomic analysis by mass spectrometry. The pros and cons, and pitfalls associated with each available "shotgun lipidomics" method are discussed; and the new strategies for improving the current methods are described. A list of important papers and reviews that are sufficient rather than comprehensive, covering all the aspects of lipidomics including the workflow, methodology, and fundamentals is also compiled for readers to follow. Graphical abstract ᅟ.
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- Fong-Fu Hsu
- Mass Spectrometry Resource, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
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Ludovici M, Kozul N, Materazzi S, Risoluti R, Picardo M, Camera E. Influence of the sebaceous gland density on the stratum corneum lipidome. Sci Rep 2018; 8:11500. [PMID: 30065281 PMCID: PMC6068117 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29742-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The skin surface lipids (SSL) result from the blending of sebaceous and epidermal lipids, which derive from the sebaceous gland (SG) secretion and the permeability barrier of the stratum corneum (SC), respectively. In humans, the composition of the SSL is distinctive of the anatomical distribution of the SG. Thus, the abundance of sebum biomarkers is consistent with the density of the SG. Limited evidence on the influence that the SG exerts on the SC lipidome is available. We explored the differential amounts of sebaceous and epidermal lipids in areas at different SG density with lipidomics approaches. SC was sampled with adhesive patches from forearm, chest, and forehead of 10 healthy adults (8F, 2M) after mechanical removal of sebum with absorbing paper. Lipid extracts of SC were analysed by HPLC/(-)ESI-TOF-MS. In the untargeted approach, the naïve molecular features extraction algorithm was used to extract meaningful entities. Aligned and normalized data were evaluated by univariate and multivariate statistics. Quantitative analysis of free fatty acids (FFA) and cholesterol sulfate (CHS) was performed by targeted HPLC/(-)ESI-TOF-MS, whereas cholesterol and squalene were quantified by GC-MS. Untargeted approaches demonstrated that the relative abundance of numerous lipid species was distinctive of SC depending upon the different SG density. The discriminating species included FFA, CHS, and ceramides. Targeted analyses confirmed that sebaceous FFA and epidermal FFA were increased and decreased, respectively, in areas at high SG density. CHS and squalene, which are biomarkers of epidermal and sebaceous lipid matrices, respectively, were both significantly higher in areas at elevated SG density. Overall, results indicated that the SG secretion intervenes in shaping the lipid composition of the epidermal permeability barrier.
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- Matteo Ludovici
- Laboratory of Cutaneous Physiopathology, San Gallicano Dermatological Institute IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Cutaneous Physiopathology, San Gallicano Dermatological Institute IRCCS, Rome, Italy.,Department of Chemistry, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Cutaneous Physiopathology, San Gallicano Dermatological Institute IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Cutaneous Physiopathology, San Gallicano Dermatological Institute IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
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Negrel L, Halter D, Wiedemann-Merdinoglu S, Rustenholz C, Merdinoglu D, Hugueney P, Baltenweck R. Identification of Lipid Markers of Plasmopara viticola Infection in Grapevine Using a Non-targeted Metabolomic Approach. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:360. [PMID: 29619037 PMCID: PMC5871909 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2017] [Accepted: 03/05/2018] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The Oomycete Plasmopara viticola is responsible for downy mildew, which is one of the most damaging grapevine diseases. Due to the strictly biotrophic way of life of P. viticola, its metabolome is relatively poorly characterized. In this work, we have used a mass spectrometry-based non-targeted metabolomic approach to identify potential Plasmopara-specific metabolites. This has led to the characterization and structural elucidation of compounds belonging to three families of atypical lipids, which are not detected in healthy grapevine tissues. These lipids include ceramides and derivatives of arachidonic and eicosapentaenoic acid, most of which had not been previously described in Oomycetes. Furthermore, we show that these lipids can be detected in Plasmopara-infected tissues at very early stages of the infection process, long before the appearance the first visible symptoms of the disease. Therefore, the potential use of these specific lipids as markers to monitor the development of P. viticola is discussed.
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Calvano CD, Glaciale M, Palmisano F, Cataldi TRI. Glycosphingolipidomics of donkey milk by hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography coupled to ESI and multistage MS. Electrophoresis 2018; 39:1634-1644. [PMID: 29460962 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201700475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2017] [Revised: 01/25/2018] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography coupled to negative-ion electrospray linear ion-trap multiple-stage MS (HILIC-ESI-MSn , n = 2,3) was used to characterize polar lipids occurring in donkey milk. Besides the detection of abundant phospholipids, the structural characterization and content evaluation of minor glycosphingolipids (GSLs) were assessed. We report an unprecedented characterization of 11 hexosyl-ceramides (HexCer), 10 Hex2 Cer, and 4 Hex3 Cer. CID-MS/MS spectra in negative ion mode mainly afford information on the monosaccharide number and ceramide constitution (i.e., N-acyl residue and long-chain base), whereas MS/MS/MS spectra on the ceramide anions allow to recognize for each GSL the sphingoid base. The occurrence of sphingosine (S), sphinganine (DS), and phytosphingosine (P) was inferred from the fragmentation patterns. The milk samples exhibit a relatively high number of phytosphingosine substitutes, perhaps because of the feeding of donkeys, mainly based on pasture grass. However, the incidence of hydroxylated species on the α-carbon of the acyl chain was also revealed. The fatty acid composition of N-acyl chains showed high values of long-chain saturated fatty acids such as 20:0, 22:0, 23:0, and 24:0. An average content of GSL is also provided and three representative mono-, di-, and tri-HexCer in donkey milk are the following: HexCer 18:0/24:1 phytosphingosine nonhydroxylated [PN] at m/z 862.6 as chloride adduct [M+Cl]- , and content 225.9 ± 2.8 μg 100 mL-1 ; Hex2 Cer 18:0/16:0 sphinganine nonhydroxylated [DSN] at m/z 862.7 as deprotonated adduct [M-H]- , and content 70.8 ± 1.4 μg 100 mL-1 ; and Hex3 Cer 18:1/24:1 [SN] at m/z 1132.8 as [M-H]- , and content 38.5 ± 0.7 μg 100 mL-1 .
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- Cosima Damiana Calvano
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.,Centro Interdipartimentale SMART, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.,Centro Interdipartimentale SMART, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.,Centro Interdipartimentale SMART, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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Abreu S, Solgadi A, Chaminade P. Optimization of normal phase chromatographic conditions for lipid analysis and comparison of associated detection techniques. J Chromatogr A 2017; 1514:54-71. [PMID: 28774713 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2017.07.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2016] [Revised: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 07/18/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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One important challenge in lipid class analysis is to develop a method suitable or, at least adaptable, for a vast diversity of samples. In the current study, an improved normal-phase liquid chromatography (NPLC) method allowed analyzing the lipid classes present in mammalian, vegetable as well as microorganism (yeast and bacteria) lipid samples. The method effectively separated 30 lipid classes or subclasses with a special focus on medium polarity lipids. The separation was carried out with bare silica stationary phase and was coupled to evaporative light scattering detection (ELSD), charged aerosol detection (Corona-CAD®) and mass spectrometry. Solutions are provided to circumvent technical issues (such as pumping solvents of low viscosity, solvent purity, rinsing step). The influence of mobile phase composition and addition of ionic modifiers on the chromatographic behavior of particular lipid classes is documented. A comparison between ELSD and Corona-CAD® confirmed the interest of this later detector for samples with a wide range of concentration of different lipids. Three common atmospheric pressure ionization interfaces were used for coupling the NPLC separation to a LTQ Velos Pro® mass spectrometer. The comparison of the chromatographic profiles showed that atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) and atmospheric pressure photoionization (APPI) are both suitable to detect the different lipid classes whereas APPI allows a better sensitivity for lipids at low-concentration.
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- Sonia Abreu
- Lip(Sys)2, Chimie Analytique Pharmaceutique (FKA EA4041 Groupe de Chimie Analytique de Paris-Sud), Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-92290 Châtenay-Malabry, France
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- SAMM, UMS IPSIT, Université Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Chatenay-Malabry, France
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- Lip(Sys)2, Chimie Analytique Pharmaceutique (FKA EA4041 Groupe de Chimie Analytique de Paris-Sud), Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-92290 Châtenay-Malabry, France.
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Hama K, Fujiwara Y, Tabata H, Takahashi H, Yokoyama K. Comprehensive Quantitation Using Two Stable Isotopically Labeled Species and Direct Detection of N-Acyl Moiety of Sphingomyelin. Lipids 2017; 52:789-799. [PMID: 28770378 PMCID: PMC5583271 DOI: 10.1007/s11745-017-4279-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2017] [Accepted: 07/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sphingomyelin (ceramide-phosphocholine, CerPCho) is a common sphingolipid in mammalian cells and is composed of phosphorylcholine and ceramide as polar and hydrophobic components, respectively. In this study, a qualitative liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC–ESI–MS/MS/MS) analysis is proposed in which CerPCho structures were assigned based on product ion spectra corresponding to sphingosylphosphorylcholine and N-acyl moieties. From MS/MS/MS analysis of CerPCho, we observed product ion spectra of the N-acyl fatty acids as [RCO2]− ions as well as sphingosylphosphorylcholine. A calibration curve for CerPCho was constructed using two stable isotopically labeled CerPCho species and then used to quantify the CerPCho species in HeLa cells as a proof-of-principle study. The present study proposes an accurate method for quantifying and assigning structures to each CerPCho species in crude biologic samples by LC–ESI–MS/MS/MS analysis.
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- Kotaro Hama
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8605, Japan.
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8605, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8605, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8605, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8605, Japan
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Cozma C, Iurașcu MI, Eichler S, Hovakimyan M, Brandau O, Zielke S, Böttcher T, Giese AK, Lukas J, Rolfs A. C26-Ceramide as highly sensitive biomarker for the diagnosis of Farber Disease. Sci Rep 2017; 7:6149. [PMID: 28733637 PMCID: PMC5522391 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06604-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2016] [Accepted: 06/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Farber disease (FD) is a rare autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in the acid ceramidase gene (ASAH1). Low ceramidase activity results in the accumulation of fatty substances, mainly ceramides. Hallmark symptoms at clinical level are periarticular nodules, lipogranulomas, swollen and painful joints and a hoarse voice. FD phenotypes are heterogeneous varying from mild to very severe cases, with the patients not surviving past their first year of life. The diagnostic aspects of FD are poorly developed due to the rarity of the disease. In the present study, the screening for ceramides and related molecules was performed in Farber affected patients (n = 10), carriers (n = 11) and control individuals (n = 192). This study has the highest number of enrolled Farber patients and carriers reported to present. Liquid chromatography multiple reaction mass spectrometry (LC/MRM-MS) studies revealed that the ceramide C26:0 and especially its isoform 1 is a highly sensitive and specific biomarker for FD (p < 0.0001). The new biomarker can be determined directly in the dried blood spot extracts with low sample consumption. This allows for easy sample preparation, high reproducibility and use in high throughput screenings.
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- Claudia Cozma
- Centogene AG, Schillingallee 68, 18057, Rostock, Germany.
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- Centogene AG, Schillingallee 68, 18057, Rostock, Germany
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- Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neurodegeneration, Rostock University Medical Centre, Gehlsheimerstraße 20, 18147, Rostock, Germany
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- Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neurodegeneration, Rostock University Medical Centre, Gehlsheimerstraße 20, 18147, Rostock, Germany
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- Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neurodegeneration, Rostock University Medical Centre, Gehlsheimerstraße 20, 18147, Rostock, Germany
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- Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neurodegeneration, Rostock University Medical Centre, Gehlsheimerstraße 20, 18147, Rostock, Germany
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- Centogene AG, Schillingallee 68, 18057, Rostock, Germany.,Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neurodegeneration, Rostock University Medical Centre, Gehlsheimerstraße 20, 18147, Rostock, Germany
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Ayciriex S, Djelti F, Alves S, Regazzetti A, Gaudin M, Varin J, Langui D, Bièche I, Hudry E, Dargère D, Aubourg P, Auzeil N, Laprévote O, Cartier N. Neuronal Cholesterol Accumulation Induced by Cyp46a1 Down-Regulation in Mouse Hippocampus Disrupts Brain Lipid Homeostasis. Front Mol Neurosci 2017; 10:211. [PMID: 28744197 PMCID: PMC5504187 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2017.00211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2017] [Accepted: 06/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Impairment in cholesterol metabolism is associated with many neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the lipid alterations underlying neurodegeneration and the connection between altered cholesterol levels and AD remains not fully understood. We recently showed that cholesterol accumulation in hippocampal neurons, induced by silencing Cyp46a1 gene expression, leads to neurodegeneration with a progressive neuronal loss associated with AD-like phenotype in wild-type mice. We used a targeted and non-targeted lipidomics approach by liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry to further characterize lipid modifications associated to neurodegeneration and cholesterol accumulation induced by CYP46A1 inhibition. Hippocampus lipidome of normal mice was profiled 4 weeks after cholesterol accumulation due to Cyp46a1 gene expression down-regulation at the onset of neurodegeneration. We showed that major membrane lipids, sphingolipids and specific enzymes involved in phosphatidylcholine and sphingolipid metabolism, were rapidly increased in the hippocampus of AAV-shCYP46A1 injected mice. This lipid accumulation was associated with alterations in the lysosomal cargoe, accumulation of phagolysosomes and impairment of endosome-lysosome trafficking. Altogether, we demonstrated that inhibition of cholesterol 24-hydroxylase, key enzyme of cholesterol metabolism leads to a complex dysregulation of lipid homeostasis. Our results contribute to dissect the potential role of lipids in severe neurodegenerative diseases like AD.
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- Sophie Ayciriex
- UMR Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 8638 COMETE, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université Paris DescartesParis, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1169, CHU Bicêtre Paris SudLe Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.,CEA Fontenay aux RosesFontenay aux Roses, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1169, CHU Bicêtre Paris SudLe Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.,CEA Fontenay aux RosesFontenay aux Roses, France
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- UMR Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 8638 COMETE, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université Paris DescartesParis, France
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- UMR Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 8638 COMETE, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université Paris DescartesParis, France.,Division Métabolisme, Technologie ServierOrléans, France
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- Génétique, Physiopathologie et Approches Thérapeutiques des Maladies Héréditaires du Système Nerveux, EA7331, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université Paris DescartesSorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Plate-forme d'Imagerie Cellulaire Pitié Salpêtrière, Hôpital Pitié-SalpêtrièreParis, France
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- Génétique, Physiopathologie et Approches Thérapeutiques des Maladies Héréditaires du Système Nerveux, EA7331, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université Paris DescartesSorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Alzheimer's Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General HospitalCharlestown, MA, United States
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- UMR Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 8638 COMETE, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université Paris DescartesParis, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1169, CHU Bicêtre Paris SudLe Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.,CEA Fontenay aux RosesFontenay aux Roses, France
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- UMR Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 8638 COMETE, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université Paris DescartesParis, France
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- UMR Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 8638 COMETE, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université Paris DescartesParis, France.,Service de Toxicologie Biologique, Hôpital LariboisièreParis, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1169, CHU Bicêtre Paris SudLe Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.,CEA Fontenay aux RosesFontenay aux Roses, France
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Tsugawa H, Ikeda K, Tanaka W, Senoo Y, Arita M, Arita M. Comprehensive identification of sphingolipid species by in silico retention time and tandem mass spectral library. J Cheminform 2017; 9:19. [PMID: 28316657 PMCID: PMC5352698 DOI: 10.1186/s13321-017-0205-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2016] [Accepted: 03/06/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Background Liquid chromatography coupled with electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC–ESI–MS/MS) is used for comprehensive metabolome and lipidome analyses. Compound identification relies on similarity matching of the retention time (RT), precursor m/z, isotopic ratio, and MS/MS spectrum with reference compounds. For sphingolipids, however, little information on the RT and MS/MS references is available. Results Negative-ion ESI–MS/MS is a useful method for the structural characterization of sphingolipids. We created theoretical MS/MS spectra for 21 sphingolipid classes in human and mouse (109,448 molecules), with substructure-level annotation of unique fragment ions by MS-FINDER software. The existence of ceramides with β-hydroxy fatty acids was confirmed in mouse tissues based on cheminformatic- and quantum chemical evidences. The RT of sphingo- and glycerolipid species was also predicted for our LC condition. With this information, MS-DIAL software for untargeted metabolome profiling could identify 415 unique structures including 282 glycerolipids and 133 sphingolipids from human cells (HEK and HeLa) and mouse tissues (ear and liver).
Conclusions MS-DIAL and MS-FINDER software programs can identify 42 lipid classes (21 sphingo- and 21 glycerolipids) with the in silico RT and MS/MS library. The library is freely available as Microsoft Excel files at the software section of our RIKEN PRIMe website (http://prime.psc.riken.jp/). Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0205-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Hiroshi Tsugawa
- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045 Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045 Japan.,Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED-PRIME), 1-7-1 Yomiuri Shimbun Building, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0004 Japan.,Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, 1-7-29 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045 Japan
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- Department of Genetics, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540 Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045 Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045 Japan.,Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, 1-7-29 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045 Japan.,Division of Physiological Chemistry and Metabolism, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Keio University, 1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8512 Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045 Japan.,Department of Genetics, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540 Japan.,National Institute of Genetics, 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540 Japan
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Witting M, Ruttkies C, Neumann S, Schmitt-Kopplin P. LipidFrag: Improving reliability of in silico fragmentation of lipids and application to the Caenorhabditis elegans lipidome. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0172311. [PMID: 28278196 PMCID: PMC5344313 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2016] [Accepted: 02/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Lipid identification is a major bottleneck in high-throughput lipidomics studies. However, tools for the analysis of lipid tandem MS spectra are rather limited. While the comparison against spectra in reference libraries is one of the preferred methods, these libraries are far from being complete. In order to improve identification rates, the in silico fragmentation tool MetFrag was combined with Lipid Maps and lipid-class specific classifiers which calculate probabilities for lipid class assignments. The resulting LipidFrag workflow was trained and evaluated on different commercially available lipid standard materials, measured with data dependent UPLC-Q-ToF-MS/MS acquisition. The automatic analysis was compared against manual MS/MS spectra interpretation. With the lipid class specific models, identification of the true positives was improved especially for cases where candidate lipids from different lipid classes had similar MetFrag scores by removing up to 56% of false positive results. This LipidFrag approach was then applied to MS/MS spectra of lipid extracts of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Fragments explained by LipidFrag match known fragmentation pathways, e.g., neutral losses of lipid headgroups and fatty acid side chain fragments. Based on prediction models trained on standard lipid materials, high probabilities for correct annotations were achieved, which makes LipidFrag a good choice for automated lipid data analysis and reliability testing of lipid identifications.
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- Michael Witting
- Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstaedter Landstrasse, Neuherberg, Germany.,Chair of Analytical Food Chemistry, Technische Universität München, Alte Akademie 10, D-85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, IPB Halle, Department of Stress and Developmental Biology, Weinberg, Halle, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, IPB Halle, Department of Stress and Developmental Biology, Weinberg, Halle, Germany
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- Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstaedter Landstrasse, Neuherberg, Germany.,Chair of Analytical Food Chemistry, Technische Universität München, Alte Akademie 10, D-85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
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Lin MH, Miner JH, Turk J, Hsu FF. Linear ion-trap MS n with high-resolution MS reveals structural diversity of 1-O-acylceramide family in mouse epidermis. J Lipid Res 2017; 58:772-782. [PMID: 28154204 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.d071647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2016] [Revised: 01/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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1-O-acylceramide is a new class of epidermal cer-amide (Cer) found in humans and mice. Here, we report an ESI linear ion-trap (LIT) multiple-stage MS (MSn) approach with high resolution toward structural characterization of this lipid family isolated from mice. Molecular species desorbed as the [M + H]+ ions were subjected to LIT MS2 to yield predominately the [M + H - H2O]+ ions, followed by MS3 to cleave the 1-O-acyl residue to yield the [M + H - H2O - (1-O-FA)]+ ions. The structures of the N-acyl chain and long-chain base (LCB) of the molecule were determined by MS4 on [M + H - H2O - (1-O-FA)]+ ions that yielded multiple sets of specific ions. Using this approach, isomers varied in the 1-O-acyl (from 14:0- to 30:0-O-acyl) and N-acyl chains (from 14:0- to 34:1-N-acyl) with 18:1-sphingosine as the major LCB were found for the entire family. Minor isomers consisting of 16:1-, 17:1-, 18:2-, and 19:1-sphingosine LCBs with odd fatty acyl chain or with monounsaturated N- or O-fatty acyl substituents were also identified. An estimation of more than 700 1-O-acylceramide species, largely isobaric isomers, are present, underscoring the complexity of this Cer family.
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- Meei-Hua Lin
- Division of Nephrology Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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- Division of Nephrology Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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- Mass Spectrometry Resource, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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- Mass Spectrometry Resource, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
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Sahoo MR, Varma SR, Patel NK, Sivaprakasam TO, Mishra A, Muguli G, Babu SK, Babu UV, Paramesh R, Jadhav AN. In vitro anti-inflammatory and skin protective properties of extract comprising ceramides from de-oiled rice bran. J Food Biochem 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/jfbc.12353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- Manas R. Sahoo
- The Himalaya Drug Company; Makali, Tumkur Road Bangalore 562 162 India
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- The Himalaya Drug Company; Makali, Tumkur Road Bangalore 562 162 India
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- The Himalaya Drug Company; Makali, Tumkur Road Bangalore 562 162 India
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- The Himalaya Drug Company; Makali, Tumkur Road Bangalore 562 162 India
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- The Himalaya Drug Company; Makali, Tumkur Road Bangalore 562 162 India
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- Natural Products Chemistry Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology; Uppal Road, Tarnaka Hyderabad Telangana 500007 India
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- The Himalaya Drug Company; Makali, Tumkur Road Bangalore 562 162 India
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- The Himalaya Drug Company; Makali, Tumkur Road Bangalore 562 162 India
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- The Himalaya Drug Company; Makali, Tumkur Road Bangalore 562 162 India
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Puurunen J, Sulkama S, Tiira K, Araujo C, Lehtonen M, Hanhineva K, Lohi H. A non-targeted metabolite profiling pilot study suggests that tryptophan and lipid metabolisms are linked with ADHD-like behaviours in dogs. Behav Brain Funct 2016; 12:27. [PMID: 27686065 PMCID: PMC5043524 DOI: 10.1186/s12993-016-0112-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2016] [Accepted: 09/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent and multifactorial neuropsychiatric disorder in the human population worldwide. Complex etiology and clinical heterogeneity have challenged the research, diagnostics and treatment of the disease. Hyperactive and impulsive behaviour has also been observed in dogs, and they could offer a physiologically relevant model for human ADHD. As a part of our ongoing study to understand the molecular etiology of canine anxiety traits, this study was aimed to pilot an approach to identify metabolic biomarkers in canine ADHD-like behaviours for research, diagnostics and treatment purposes. METHODS We collected fresh plasma samples from 22 German Shepherds with varying ADHD-like behaviours. All dogs were on the same controlled diet for 2 weeks prior to sampling. A liquid chromatography combined with mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based non-targeted metabolite profiling was performed to identify plasma metabolites correlating with the ADHD-like behaviour of the dogs. RESULTS 649 molecular features correlated with ADHD-like behavioural scores (praw < 0.05), and three of them [sn-1 LysoPC(18:3), PC(18:3/18:2) and sn-1 LysoPE(18:2)] had significant correlations also after FDR correction (pFDR < 0.05). Phospholipids were found to negatively correlate with ADHD-like behavioural scores, whereas tryptophan metabolites 3-indolepropionic acid (IPA) and kynurenic acid (KYNA) had negative and positive correlations with ADHD-like behavioural scores, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Our study identified associations between canine ADHD-like behaviours and metabolites that are involved in lipid and tryptophan metabolisms. The identified metabolites share similarity with earlier findings in human and rodent ADHD models. However, a larger replication study is warranted to validate the discoveries prior to further studies to understand the biological role of the identified metabolites in canine ADHD-like behaviours.
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- Jenni Puurunen
- Department of Veterinary Biosciences and Research Programs Unit, Molecular Neurology, University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, Biomedicum Helsinki, P.O.Box 63, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.,The Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Veterinary Biosciences and Research Programs Unit, Molecular Neurology, University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, Biomedicum Helsinki, P.O.Box 63, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.,The Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Veterinary Biosciences and Research Programs Unit, Molecular Neurology, University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, Biomedicum Helsinki, P.O.Box 63, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.,The Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Veterinary Biosciences and Research Programs Unit, Molecular Neurology, University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, Biomedicum Helsinki, P.O.Box 63, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.,The Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.,LC-MS Metabolomics Center, Biocenter Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Veterinary Biosciences and Research Programs Unit, Molecular Neurology, University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, Biomedicum Helsinki, P.O.Box 63, 00014, Helsinki, Finland. .,The Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
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Sonnenberger S, Lange S, Langner A, Neubert RHH, Dobner B. Synthesis of ceramides NS and NP with perdeuterated and specifically ω deuterated N-acyl residues. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm 2016; 59:531-542. [PMID: 27634543 DOI: 10.1002/jlcr.3443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2016] [Revised: 08/11/2016] [Accepted: 08/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The synthesis of 12 deuterated ceramides with either a deuteration at the last carbon atom of the amide bound fatty acid or a perdeuterated fatty acid chain is described. The ceramides were prepared starting from sphingosine or phytosphingosine and ω deuterated or perdeuterated fatty acids with PyBOP® as activating agent in high yields. For the synthesis of the specifically deuterated fatty acids, dicarboxylic acids were transformed into ω deuterated alkyl bromide, which was chain elongated with blocked ω bromo alcohols by copper catalyzed Grignard coupling. Oxidation of regenerated alcohol function yields the ω deuterated fatty acids.
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- Stefan Sonnenberger
- Institute of Pharmacy, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Halle/Saale, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmacy, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Halle/Saale, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Dermatopharmacy, Halle Technology and Founder's Centre GmbH, (TGZ), Halle/Saale, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmacy, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Halle/Saale, Germany.
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Hsu FF. Complete structural characterization of ceramides as [M-H] - ions by multiple-stage linear ion trap mass spectrometry. Biochimie 2016; 130:63-75. [PMID: 27523779 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2016.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2016] [Accepted: 07/21/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Ceramide is a huge lipid family consisting of diversified structures including various modifications in the fatty acyl chain and the long chain base (LCB). In this contribution, negative-ion ESI linear ion-trap multiple-stage mass spectrometric method (LIT MSn) towards complete structural determination of ceramides in ten major families characterized as the [M-H]- ions is described. Multiple sets of fragment ions reflecting the fatty acyl chain and LCB were observed in the CID MS2 spectrum, while the sequential MS3 and MS4 spectra contain structural information for locating the double bond and the functional groups, permitting realization of the fragmentation processes. Thereby, differentiation of ceramide molecules varied by chain length, the LCB (sphingosine, phytosphigosine, 6-hydroxy-sphingosine), and by the modification (α-hydroxy-, β-hydroxy-, ω-hydroxy-FA) can be achieved; and many isomeric structures in the biological specimen can be revealed in detail.
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- Fong-Fu Hsu
- Mass Spectrometry Resource, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
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Wolbachia Modulates Lipid Metabolism in Aedes albopictus Mosquito Cells. Appl Environ Microbiol 2016; 82:3109-3120. [PMID: 26994075 PMCID: PMC4959074 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00275-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2016] [Accepted: 03/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Certain strains of the intracellular endosymbiont Wolbachia can strongly inhibit or block the transmission of viruses such as dengue virus (DENV) by Aedes mosquitoes, and the mechanisms responsible are still not well understood. Direct infusion and liquid chromatography-Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry-based lipidomics analyses were conducted using Aedes albopictus Aa23 cells that were infected with the wMel and wMelPop strains of Wolbachia in comparison to uninfected Aa23-T cells. Substantial shifts in the cellular lipid profile were apparent in the presence of Wolbachia. Most significantly, almost all sphingolipid classes were depleted, and some reductions in diacylglycerols and phosphatidylcholines were also observed. These lipid classes have previously been shown to be selectively enriched in DENV-infected mosquito cells, suggesting that Wolbachia may produce a cellular lipid environment that is antagonistic to viral replication. The data improve our understanding of the intracellular interactions between Wolbachia and mosquitoes. IMPORTANCE Mosquitoes transmit a variety of important viruses to humans, such as dengue virus and Zika virus. Certain strains of the intracellular bacterial genus called Wolbachia found in or introduced into mosquitoes can block the transmission of viruses, including dengue virus, but the mechanisms responsible are not well understood. We found substantial shifts in the cellular lipid profiles in the presence of these bacteria. Some lipid classes previously shown to be enriched in dengue virus-infected mosquito cells were depleted in the presence of Wolbachia, suggesting that Wolbachia may produce a cellular lipid environment that inhibits mosquito-borne viruses.
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Kauhanen D, Sysi-Aho M, Koistinen KM, Laaksonen R, Sinisalo J, Ekroos K. Development and validation of a high-throughput LC-MS/MS assay for routine measurement of molecular ceramides. Anal Bioanal Chem 2016; 408:3475-83. [PMID: 26922344 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-016-9425-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2015] [Revised: 02/09/2016] [Accepted: 02/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Monitoring the levels of the ceramides (Cer) d18:1/16:0, Cer d18:1/18:0, Cer d18:1/24:0, and Cer d18:1/24:1 and ratios thereof in human plasma empowers the prediction of fatal outcome of coronary artery disease (CAD). We describe a validated liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) methodology for clinical-scaled measurement of the four distinct ceramides. Rapid plasma precipitation was accomplished in 96-well format. Excellent extraction recoveries in the range of 98-109% were achieved for each ceramide. Addition of corresponding D7-labeled ceramide standards facilitated precise quantification of each plasma ceramide species utilizing a novel short 5-min LC-MS/MS method. Neither matrix interference nor carryover was observed. Robust intra- and inter-assay accuracy and precision <15% at five different concentrations were obtained. Linear calibration lines with regressions, R(2) > 0.99, were achieved for all analytes. Short-term bench top, long-term plasma, and extract stability demonstrated that the distinct ceramides were stable in the conditions evaluated. The validity of the methodology was demonstrated by determining the precise ceramide concentrations in a small CAD case-control study. Thus, our LC-MS/MS methodology features simple sample preparation and short analysis time for accurate quantification of Cer d18:1/16:0, Cer d18:1/18:0, Cer d18:1/24:0, and Cer d18:1/24:1, designed for routine analysis.
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- Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki University Hospital, 00029 HUS, Helsinki, Finland
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- Zora Biosciences, Biologinkuja 1, 02150, Espoo, Finland.
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Structure of Sphingolipids From Sea Cucumber Cucumaria frondosa and Structure-Specific Cytotoxicity Against Human HepG2 Cells. Lipids 2016; 51:321-34. [PMID: 26861868 DOI: 10.1007/s11745-016-4128-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2015] [Accepted: 01/18/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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To investigate the relationship between structure and activity, three glucocerebroside series (CFC-1, CFC-2 and CFC-3), ceramides (CF-Cer) and long-chain bases (CF-LCB) of sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa (C. frondosa) were isolated and evaluated in HepG2 cells. The molecular species of CFC-1, CFC-2 and CFC-3 and CF-Cer were identified using reversed-phase liquid chromatography with heated electrospray ionization coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry (RPLC-HESI-HRMS), and determined on the basis of chemical and spectroscopic evidence: For the three glucocerebroside series, fatty acids (FA) were mainly saturated (18:0 and 22:0), monounsaturated (22:1, 23:1 and 24:1) and 2-hydroxyl FA (2-HFA) (23:1 h and 24:1 h), the structure of long-chain bases (LCB) were dihydroxy (d17:1, d18:1 and d18:2) and trihydroxy (t16:0 and t17:0), and the glycosylation was glucose; For CF-Cer, FA were primarily saturated (17:0) and monounsaturated (16:1 and 19:1), the structure of LCB were dihydroxy (d17:1 and d18:1), and trihydroxy (t16:0). The results of cell experiment indicated that all of three glucocerebroside series, CF-Cer and CF-LCB exhibited an inhibitory effects on cell proliferation. Moreover, CFC-3 was most effective in three glucocerebrosides to HepG-2 cell viability. The inhibition effect of CF-LCB was the strongest, and the inhibition effect of CF-Cer was much stronger than glucocerebrosides.
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Ceramides And Stress Signalling Intersect With Autophagic Defects In Neurodegenerative Drosophila blue cheese (bchs) Mutants. Sci Rep 2015; 5:15926. [PMID: 26639035 PMCID: PMC4671070 DOI: 10.1038/srep15926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2015] [Accepted: 10/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Sphingolipid metabolites are involved in the regulation of autophagy, a degradative recycling process that is required to prevent neuronal degeneration. Drosophila blue cheese mutants neurodegenerate due to perturbations in autophagic flux, and consequent accumulation of ubiquitinated aggregates. Here, we demonstrate that blue cheese mutant brains exhibit an elevation in total ceramide levels; surprisingly, however, degeneration is ameliorated when the pool of available ceramides is further increased, and exacerbated when ceramide levels are decreased by altering sphingolipid catabolism or blocking de novo synthesis. Exogenous ceramide is seen to accumulate in autophagosomes, which are fewer in number and show less efficient clearance in blue cheese mutant neurons. Sphingolipid metabolism is also shifted away from salvage toward de novo pathways, while pro-growth Akt and MAP pathways are down-regulated, and ER stress is increased. All these defects are reversed under genetic rescue conditions that increase ceramide generation from salvage pathways. This constellation of effects suggests a possible mechanism whereby the observed deficit in a potentially ceramide-releasing autophagic pathway impedes survival signaling and exacerbates neuronal death.
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Lanzini J, Dargère D, Regazzetti A, Tebani A, Laprévote O, Auzeil N. Changing in lipid profile induced by the mutation of Foxn1 gene: A lipidomic analysis of Nude mice skin. Biochimie 2015; 118:234-43. [PMID: 26427556 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2015.09.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2015] [Accepted: 09/23/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Nude mice carry a spontaneous mutation affecting the gene Foxn1 mainly expressed in the epidermis. This gene is involved in several skin functions, especially in the proliferation and the differentiation of keratinocytes which are key cells of epithelial barrier. The skin, a protective barrier for the body, is essentially composed of lipids. Taking into account these factors, we conducted a lipidomic study to search for any changes in lipid composition of skin possibly related to Foxn1 mutation. Lipids were extracted from skin biopsies of Nude and BALB/c mice to be analyzed by liquid chromatography coupled to a high resolution mass spectrometer (HRMS). Multivariate and univariate data analyses were carried out to compare lipid extracts. Identification was performed using HRMS data, retention time and mass spectrometry fragmentation study. These results indicate that mutation of Foxn1 leads to significant modifications in the lipidome in Nude mice skin. An increase in cholesterol sulfate, phospholipids, sphingolipids and fatty acids associated with a decrease in glycerolipids suggest that the lipidome in mice skin is regulated by the Foxn1 gene.
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- Justine Lanzini
- UMR CNRS 8638, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, 4 Avenue de L'Observatoire, 75006 Paris, France
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- UMR CNRS 8638, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, 4 Avenue de L'Observatoire, 75006 Paris, France
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- UMR CNRS 8638, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, 4 Avenue de L'Observatoire, 75006 Paris, France
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- UMR CNRS 8638, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, 4 Avenue de L'Observatoire, 75006 Paris, France
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- UMR CNRS 8638, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, 4 Avenue de L'Observatoire, 75006 Paris, France; AP-HP, Service de Toxicologie Biologique, Hôpital Lariboisière, 4 Rue Ambroise Paré, 75475 Paris Cedex 10, France
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- UMR CNRS 8638, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, 4 Avenue de L'Observatoire, 75006 Paris, France.
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Zhang T, Barclay L, Walensky LD, Saghatelian A. Regulation of mitochondrial ceramide distribution by members of the BCL-2 family. J Lipid Res 2015; 56:1501-10. [PMID: 26059977 PMCID: PMC4513991 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m058750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2015] [Revised: 06/06/2015] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Apoptosis is an intricately regulated cellular process that proceeds through different cell type- and signal-dependent pathways. In the mitochondrial apoptotic program, mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization by BCL-2 proteins leads to the release of apoptogenic factors, caspase activation, and cell death. In addition to protein components of the mitochondrial apoptotic machinery, an interesting role for lipids and lipid metabolism in BCL-2 family-regulated apoptosis is also emerging. We used a comparative lipidomics approach to uncover alterations in lipid profile in the absence of the proapoptotic proteins BAX and BAK in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs). We detected over 1,000 ions in these experiments and found changes in an ion with an m/z of 534.49. Structural elucidation of this ion through tandem mass spectrometry revealed that this molecule is a ceramide with a 16-carbon N-acyl chain and sphingadiene backbone (d18:2/16:0 ceramide). Targeted LC/MS analysis revealed elevated levels of additional sphingadiene-containing ceramides (d18:2-Cers) in BAX, BAK-double knockout MEFs. Elevated d18:2-Cers are also found in immortalized baby mouse kidney epithelial cells lacking BAX and BAK. These results support the existence of a distinct biochemical pathway for regulating ceramides with different backbone structures and suggest that sphingadiene-containing ceramides may have functions that are distinct from the more common sphingosine-containing species.
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- Tejia Zhang
- Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA 92037
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston, and Linde Program in Cancer Chemical Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215
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- Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA 92037
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Almeida R, Pauling JK, Sokol E, Hannibal-Bach HK, Ejsing CS. Comprehensive lipidome analysis by shotgun lipidomics on a hybrid quadrupole-orbitrap-linear ion trap mass spectrometer. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2015; 26:133-148. [PMID: 25391725 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-014-1013-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2014] [Revised: 10/02/2014] [Accepted: 10/05/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Here we report on the application of a novel shotgun lipidomics platform featuring an Orbitrap Fusion mass spectrometer equipped with an automated nanoelectrospray ion source. To assess the performance of the platform for in-depth lipidome analysis, we evaluated various instrument parameters, including its high resolution power unsurpassed by any other contemporary Orbitrap instrumentation, its dynamic quantification range and its efficacy for in-depth structural characterization of molecular lipid species by quadrupole-based higher-energy collisional dissociation (HCD), and ion trap-based resonant-excitation collision-induced dissociation (CID). This evaluation demonstrated that FTMS analysis with a resolution setting of 450,000 allows distinguishing isotopes from different lipid species and features a linear dynamic quantification range of at least four orders of magnitude. Evaluation of fragmentation analysis demonstrated that combined use of HCD and CID yields complementary fragment ions of molecular lipid species. To support global lipidome analysis, we designed a method, termed MS(ALL), featuring high resolution FTMS analysis for lipid quantification, and FTMS(2) analysis using both HCD and CID and ITMS(3) analysis utilizing dual CID for in-depth structural characterization of molecular glycerophospholipid species. The performance of the MS(ALL) method was benchmarked in a comparative analysis of mouse cerebellum and hippocampus. This analysis demonstrated extensive lipidome quantification covering 311 lipid species encompassing 20 lipid classes, and identification of 202 distinct molecular glycerophospholipid species when applying a novel high confidence filtering strategy. The work presented here validates the performance of the Orbitrap Fusion mass spectrometer for in-depth lipidome analysis.
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- Reinaldo Almeida
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, VILLUM Center for Bioanalytical Sciences University of Southern Denmark, 5230, Odense, Denmark
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Lee HS, Shin KO, Jo SC, Lee YM, Yim YH. Optimized precursor ion selection for labile ions in a linear ion trap mass spectrometer and its impact on quantification using selected reaction monitoring. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2014; 49:1234-1238. [PMID: 25476940 DOI: 10.1002/jms.3450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2014] [Revised: 07/19/2014] [Accepted: 07/26/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The fragmentation of fragile ions during the application of an isolation waveform for precursor ion selection and the resulting loss of isolated ion intensity is well-known in ion trap mass spectrometry (ITMS). To obtain adequate ion intensity in the selected reaction monitoring (SRM) of fragile precursor ions, a wider ion isolation width is required. However, the increased isolation width significantly diminishes the selectivity of the channels chosen for SRM, which is a serious problem for samples with complex matrices. The sensitive and selective quantification of many lipid molecules, including ceramides from real biological samples, using a linear ion trap mass spectrometer is also hindered by the same problem because of the ease of water loss from protonated ceramide ions. In this study, a method for the reliable quantification of ceramides using SRM with near unity precursor ion isolation has been developed for ITMS by utilizing alternative precursor ions generated by in-source dissociation. The selected precursor ions allow the isolation of ions with unit mass width and the selective analysis of ceramides using SRM with negligible loss of sensitivity. The quantification of C18:0-, C24:0- and C24:1-ceramides using the present method shows excellent linearity over the concentration ranges from 6 to 100, 25 to 1000 and 25 to 1000 nM, respectively. The limits of detection of C18:0-, C24:0- and C24:1-ceramides were 0.25, 0.25 and 5 fmol, respectively. The developed method was successfully applied to quantify ceramides in fetal bovine serum.
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- Hyun-Seok Lee
- College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University, 52 Naesudong-ro, Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju, Chungbuk, 361-763, Korea; Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, 267 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-340, Korea
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Zehethofer N, Bermbach S, Hagner S, Garn H, Müller J, Goldmann T, Lindner B, Schwudke D, König P. Lipid Analysis of Airway Epithelial Cells for Studying Respiratory Diseases. Chromatographia 2014; 78:403-413. [PMID: 25750457 PMCID: PMC4346681 DOI: 10.1007/s10337-014-2787-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2014] [Revised: 09/29/2014] [Accepted: 10/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Airway epithelial cells play an important role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory lung diseases such as asthma, cystic fibrosis and COPD. Studies concerning the function of the lipid metabolism of the airway epithelium are so far based only on the detection of lipids by immunohistochemistry but quantitative analyses have not been performed. Although recent advances in mass spectrometry have allowed to identify a variety of lipid classes simultaneously in isolated tissue samples, up until now, these methods were not suitable to analyze lipids in the airway epithelium. To determine all major lipid classes in airway epithelial cells, we used an LC-MS-based approach that can easily be combined with the specific isolation procedure to obtain epithelial cells. We tested the suitability of this method with a mouse model of experimental asthma. In response to allergen challenge, perturbations in the sphingolipids were detected, which led to increased levels of ceramides. We expanded the scope of this approach analysing human bronchus samples without pathological findings of adenocarcinoma patients. For the human lung epithelium an unusual lipid class distribution was found in which ceramide was the predominant sphingolipid. In summary, we show that disease progression and lipid metabolism perturbation can be monitored in animal models and that the method can be used for the analysis of clinical samples.
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- Nicole Zehethofer
- Division of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Research Center Borstel, Parkallee 1-40, 23845 Borstel, Germany ; Division of Cellular Microbiology, Research Center Borstel, Parkallee 1-40, 23845 Borstel, Germany ; German Center for Infection Research, TTU-Tb, Location Borstel, Parkallee 1, 23845 Borstel, Germany
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- Institute for Anatomy, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23562 Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Pathochemistry, Molecular Diagnostics, Philipps University of Marburg, ZTI, Hans-Meerwein-Str. 3, 35043 Marburg, Germany ; Universities of Gießen and Marburg Lung School (UGMLC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Gießen, Germany
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Pathochemistry, Molecular Diagnostics, Philipps University of Marburg, ZTI, Hans-Meerwein-Str. 3, 35043 Marburg, Germany ; Universities of Gießen and Marburg Lung School (UGMLC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Gießen, Germany
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- Division of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Research Center Borstel, Parkallee 1-40, 23845 Borstel, Germany
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- Division of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Research Center Borstel, Parkallee 1-40, 23845 Borstel, Germany ; Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 22927 Grosshansdorf, Germany
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- Division of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Research Center Borstel, Parkallee 1-40, 23845 Borstel, Germany
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- Division of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Research Center Borstel, Parkallee 1-40, 23845 Borstel, Germany ; Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 22927 Grosshansdorf, Germany ; German Center for Infection Research, TTU-Tb, Location Borstel, Parkallee 1, 23845 Borstel, Germany
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- Institute for Anatomy, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23562 Lübeck, Germany ; Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 22927 Grosshansdorf, Germany
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A lipidomic platform establishment for structural identification of skin ceramides with non-hydroxyacyl chains. Anal Bioanal Chem 2014; 406:1917-32. [PMID: 24458481 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-013-7601-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2013] [Revised: 12/19/2013] [Accepted: 12/21/2013] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The stratum corneum (SC) is the outermost layer of skin that functions as a barrier and protects against environmental influences and transepidermal water loss. Its unique morphology consists of keratin-enriched corneocytes embedded in a distinctive mixture of lipids containing mainly ceramides, free fatty acids, and cholesterol. Ceramides are sphingolipids consisting of sphingoid bases, which are linked to fatty acids by an amide bond. Typical sphingoid bases in the skin are composed of dihydrosphingosine (dS), sphingosine (S), phytosphingosine (P), and 6-hydroxysphingosine (H), and the fatty acid acyl chains are composed of non-hydroxy fatty acid (N), α-hydroxy fatty acid (A), ω-hydroxy fatty acid (O), and esterified ω-hydroxy fatty acid (E). The 16 ceramide classes include several combinations of sphingoid bases and fatty acid acyl chains. Among them, N-type ceramides are the most abundant in the SC. Mass spectrometry (MS)/MS analysis of N-type ceramides using chip-based direct infusion nanoelectrospray-ion trap mass spectrometry generated the characteristic fragmentation pattern of both acyl and sphingoid units, which could be applied to structural identification of ceramides. Based on the MS/MS fragmentation patterns of N-type ceramides, comprehensive fragmentation schemes were proposed. In addition, mass fragmentation patterns, which are specific to the sphingoid backbone of N-type ceramides, were found in higher m/z regions of tandem mass spectra. These characteristic and general fragmentation patterns were used to identify N-type ceramides in human SC. Based on established MS/MS fragmentation patterns of N-type ceramides, 52 ceramides (including different classes of NS, NdS, NP, and NH) were identified in human SC. The MS/MS fragmentation patterns of N-type ceramides were characterized by interpreting their product ion scan mass spectra. This information may be used to identify N-type ceramides in the SC of human, rat, and mouse skin.
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Sokol E, Almeida R, Hannibal-Bach HK, Kotowska D, Vogt J, Baumgart J, Kristiansen K, Nitsch R, Knudsen J, Ejsing CS. Profiling of lipid species by normal-phase liquid chromatography, nanoelectrospray ionization, and ion trap-orbitrap mass spectrometry. Anal Biochem 2013; 443:88-96. [PMID: 23994565 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2013.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2013] [Revised: 08/15/2013] [Accepted: 08/19/2013] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Detailed analysis of lipid species can be challenging due to their structural diversity and wide concentration range in cells, tissues, and biofluids. To address these analytical challenges, we devised a reproducible, sensitive, and integrated lipidomics workflow based on normal-phase liquid chromatography-Fourier transform mass spectrometry (LC-FTMS) and LC-ITMS(2) (ion trap tandem mass spectrometry) for profiling and structural analysis of lipid species. The workflow uses a normal-phase LC system for efficient separation of apolar and polar lipid species combined with sensitive and specific analysis powered by a chip-based nanoelectrospray ion source and a hybrid ion trap-orbitrap mass spectrometer. The workflow was executed using a primary LC-FTMS survey routine for identification and profiling of lipid species based on high-mass accuracy and retention time followed by a targeted LC-ITMS(2) routine for characterizing the fatty acid moieties of identified lipid species. We benchmarked the performance of the workflow by characterizing the chromatographic properties of the LC-MS system for general lipid analysis. In addition, we demonstrate the efficacy of the workflow by reporting a study of low-abundant triacylglycerol and ceramide species in mouse brain cerebellum and 3T3-L1 adipocytes, respectively. The workflow described here is generic and can be extended for detailed lipid analysis of sample matrices having a wide range of lipid compositions.
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- Elena Sokol
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark
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Ito E, Waki H, Miseki K, Shimada T, Sato TA, Kakehi K, Suzuki M, Suzuki A. Structural characterization of neutral glycosphingolipids using high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry with a repeated high-speed polarity and MSn switching system. Glycoconj J 2013; 30:881-8. [DOI: 10.1007/s10719-013-9492-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2013] [Revised: 07/25/2013] [Accepted: 07/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Rector RS, Morris EM, Ridenhour S, Meers GM, Hsu FF, Turk J, Ibdah JA. Selective hepatic insulin resistance in a murine model heterozygous for a mitochondrial trifunctional protein defect. Hepatology 2013; 57:2213-23. [PMID: 23359250 PMCID: PMC3660447 DOI: 10.1002/hep.26285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2012] [Accepted: 01/04/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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UNLABELLED Earlier reports suggest a link between mitochondrial dysfunction and development of hepatic insulin resistance. Here we used a murine model heterozygous (HET) for a mitochondrial trifunctional protein (MTP) gene defect to determine if a primary defect in mitochondrial long-chain fatty acid oxidation disrupts hepatic insulin action. Hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamps and signaling studies were performed for assessment of whole-body and hepatic insulin resistance/signaling. In addition, hepatic fatty acid oxidation and hepatic insulin action were assessed in vitro using primary hepatocytes isolated from HET and wildtype (WT) mice. In both hepatic mitochondria and isolated primary hepatocytes, heterozygosity of MTP caused an ∼50% reduction in mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation, a significantly impaired glucose disposal during the insulin clamp, and a markedly lower insulin-stimulated suppression of hepatic glucose production. HET mice also exhibited impaired insulin signaling, with increased hepatic phosphorylation of IRS2 (ser731) and reduced Akt phosphorylation (ser473) in both hepatic tissue and isolated primary hepatocytes. Assessment of insulin-stimulated FOXO1/phospho-FOXO1 protein content and PEPCK/G6Pase messenger RNA (mRNA) expression did not reveal differences between HET and WT mice. However, insulin-induced phosphorylation of GSK3β was significantly blunted in HET mice. Hepatic insulin resistance was associated with an increased methylation status of the catalytic subunit of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A-C), but was not associated with differences in hepatic diacylglycerol content, activated protein kinase C-ϵ (PKC-ϵ), inhibitor κB kinase β (IKK-β), c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), or phospho-JNK protein contents. Surprisingly, hepatic ceramides were significantly lower in the HET mice compared with WT. CONCLUSION A primary defect in mitochondrial fatty acid β-oxidation causes hepatic insulin resistance selective to hepatic glycogen metabolism that is associated with elevated methylated PP2A-C, but independent of other mechanisms commonly considered responsible for insulin resistance. (HEPATOLOGY 2013;).
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- R. Scott Rector
- Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Medical Center, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA,Department of Internal Medicine-Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Missouri,Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, University of Missouri
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- Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Medical Center, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA,Department of Internal Medicine-Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Missouri
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- Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Medical Center, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA,Department of Internal Medicine-Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Missouri
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- Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Medical Center, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA,Department of Internal Medicine-Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Missouri
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Mass Spectrometry Resource, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Mass Spectrometry Resource, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Medical Center, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA,Department of Internal Medicine-Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Missouri,Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, University of Missouri,Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri
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