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Li Y, Wang Y, Guo K, Tseng KF, Zhang X, Sun W. Aza-Prilezhaev Aziridination-Enabled Multidimensional Analysis of Isomeric Lipids via High-Resolution U-Shaped Mobility Analyzer-Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2024; 96:7111-7119. [PMID: 38648270 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c00481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
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Unsaturated lipids constitute a significant portion of the lipidome, serving as players of multifaceted functions involving cellular signaling, membrane structure, and bioenergetics. While derivatization-assisted liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) remains the gold standard technique in lipidome, it mainly faces challenges in efficiently labeling the carbon-carbon double bond (C═C) and differentiating isomeric lipids in full dimension. This presents a need for new orthogonal methodologies. Herein, a metal- and additive-free aza-Prilezhaev aziridination (APA)-enabled ion mobility mass spectrometric method is developed for probing multiple levels of unsaturated lipid isomerization with high sensitivity. Both unsaturated polar and nonpolar lipids can be efficiently labeled in the form of N-H aziridine without significant side reactions. The signal intensity can be increased by up to 3 orders of magnitude, achieving the nM detection limit. Abundant site-specific fragmentation ions indicate C═C location and sn-position in MS/MS spectra. Better yet, a stable monoaziridination product is dominant, simplifying the spectrum for lipids with multiple double bonds. Coupled with a U-shaped mobility analyzer, identification of geometric isomers and separation of different lipid classes can be achieved. Additionally, a unique pseudo MS3 mode with UMA-QTOF MS boosts the sensitivity for generating diagnostic fragments. Overall, the current method provides a comprehensive solution for deep-profiling lipidomics, which is valuable for lipid marker discovery in disease monitoring and diagnosis.
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- Yuling Li
- Shimadzu Research Laboratory (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201206, China
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- Shimadzu Research Laboratory (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201206, China
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- Shimadzu Research Laboratory (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201206, China
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- Shimadzu Research Laboratory (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201206, China
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- Shimadzu Research Laboratory (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201206, China
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- Shimadzu Research Laboratory (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201206, China
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Yang L, Yuan J, Yu B, Hu S, Bai Y. Sample preparation for fatty acid analysis in biological samples with mass spectrometry-based strategies. Anal Bioanal Chem 2024; 416:2371-2387. [PMID: 38319358 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-024-05185-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Revised: 01/05/2024] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 02/07/2024]
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Fatty acids (FAs) have attracted many interests for their pivotal roles in many biological processes. Imbalance of FAs is related to a variety of diseases, which makes the measurement of them important in biological samples. Over the past two decades, mass spectrometry (MS) has become an indispensable technique for the analysis of FAs owing to its high sensitivity and precision. Due to complex matrix effect of biological samples and inherent poor ionization efficiency of FAs in MS, sample preparation including extraction and chemical derivatization prior to analysis are often employed. Here, we describe an updated overview of FA extraction techniques, as well as representative derivatization methods utilized in different MS platforms including gas chromatography-MS, liquid chromatography-MS, and mass spectrometry imaging based on different chain lengths of FAs. Derivatization strategies for the identification of double bond location in unsaturated FAs are also summarized and highlighted. The advantages, disadvantages, and prospects of these methods are compared and discussed. This review provides the development and valuable information for sample pretreatment approaches and qualitative and quantitative analysis of interested FAs using different MS-based platforms in complex biological matrices. Finally, the challenges of FA analysis are summarized and the future perspectives are prospected.
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- Li Yang
- Department of Pharmacy, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Pharmacy, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China.
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Harris RA, May JC, Harvey SR, Wysocki VH, McLean JA. Evaluation of Surface-Induced Dissociation Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry for Lipid Structural Characterization. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2024; 35:214-223. [PMID: 38215279 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.3c00319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2024]
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The complexity of the lipidome has necessitated the development of novel analytical approaches for the identification and structural analysis of morphologically diverse classes of lipids. At this time, a variety of dissociation techniques have been utilized to probe lipid decomposition pathways in search of structurally diagnostic fragment ions. Here, we investigate the application of surface-induced dissociation (SID), a fragmentation technique that imparts energy to the target molecule via collision with a coated surface, for the fragmentation of seven lipids across four major lipid subclasses. We have developed a tuning methodology for guiding the efficient operation of a previously developed custom SID device for molecules as small as ca. 300 Da with ion mobility analysis of the fragmentation products. SID fragmentation of the various lipids analyzed was found to generate fragment ions similar to those observed in CID spectra, but fragment ion lab frame onset energies were lower in SID due to the higher energy deposition via a more massive target. For the largest lipid evaluated (cardiolipin 18:1), SID produced chain fragment ions, which yielded analytically useful information regarding the composition of the acyl tails. Ion mobility provided an orthogonal dimension of separation and aided in assigning product ions to their precursors. Overall, the combination of SID and IM-MS is another potential methodology in the analytical toolkit for lipid structural analysis.
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- Rachel A Harris
- Department of Chemistry, Center for Innovative Technology, Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Innovative Technology, Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Resource for Native Mass Spectrometry Guided Structural Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Resource for Native Mass Spectrometry Guided Structural Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Innovative Technology, Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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Wang Z, Yang T, Brenna JT, Wang DH. Fatty acid isomerism: analysis and selected biological functions. Food Funct 2024; 15:1071-1088. [PMID: 38197562 DOI: 10.1039/d3fo03716a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2024]
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The biological functions of fatty acids and the lipids in which they are esterified are determined by their chain length, double bond position and geometry and other structural motifs such as the presence of methyl branches. Unusual isomeric features in fatty acids of human foods such as conjugated double bonds or chain branching found in dairy products, some seeds and nuts, and marine foods potentially have important effects on human health. Recent advancements in identifying fatty acids with unusual double bond positions and pinpointing the position of methyl branches have empowered the study of their biological functions. We present recent advances in fatty acid structural elucidation by mass spectrometry in comparison with the more traditional methods. The double bond position can be determined by purely instrumental methods, specifically solvent-mediated covalent adduct chemical ionization (SM-CACI) and ozone induced dissociation (OzID), with charge inversion methods showing promise. Prior derivatization using the Paternò-Büchi (PB) reaction to yield stable structures that, upon collisional activation, yield the double bond position has emerged. The chemical ionization (CI) based three ion monitoring (MRM) method has been developed to simultaneously identify and quantify low-level branched chain fatty acids (BCFAs), unattainable by electron ionization (EI) based methods. Accurate identification and quantification of unusual fatty acid isomers has led to research progress in the discovery of biomarkers for cancer, diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and atherosclerosis. Modulation of eicosanoids, weight loss and the health significance of BCFAs are also presented. This review clearly shows that the improvement of analytical capacity is critical in the study of fatty acid biological functions, and stronger coupling of the methods discussed here with fatty acid mechanistic research is promising in generating more refined outcomes.
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- Zhen Wang
- School of Agriculture, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.
- School of Public Health (Shenzhen), Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China
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- School of Agriculture, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.
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- Dell Pediatric Research Institute, Depts of Pediatrics, of Chemistry, and of Nutrition, University of Texas at Austin, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Austin, TX, USA.
- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- School of Agriculture, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.
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Görs PE, Ayala-Cabrera JF, Meckelmann SW. Unraveling the Double Bond Position of Fatty Acids by GC-MS Using Electron Capture APCI and In-Source Fragmentation Patterns. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2023; 34:2538-2546. [PMID: 37751542 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.3c00257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
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The position of double bonds in unsaturated fatty acids is strongly connected to their biological effects, but their analytical characterization is still challenging. However, the ionization of unsaturated fatty acids by a GC-APCI leads to regiospecific in-source fragment ions, which can be used to identify the double bond position. The fragment ions are oxidized species that occur mostly at the double bond closest to the carboxylic acid group. This effect can be further promoted by using benzaldehyde as a gas-phase reactant. This allows the identification of the Δ-notation of the fatty acid, and based on additional information such as m/z and retention time, it is possible to annotate the corresponding fatty acid. The developed method also enables the quantification of fatty acids in one step with high selectivity and sensitivity. Moreover, rare fatty acids can be identified in suspected target approaches that are often not available as standards. This was demonstrated by analyzing fish oil samples that provide a complex mixture of highly unsaturated fatty acids and by identifying rare fatty acids such as hexadecatetraenoic acid (FA 16:4 Δ6).
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- Paul E Görs
- Applied Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse 5, 45141 Essen, Germany
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- Applied Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse 5, 45141 Essen, Germany
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of the Basque Country, 48080 Leioa, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain
- Research Centre for Experimental Marine Biology and Biotechnology (PiE), University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48620 Plentzia, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain
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- Applied Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse 5, 45141 Essen, Germany
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Kedia K, Harris R, Ekroos K, Moser KW, DeBord D, Tiberi P, Goracci L, Zhang NR, Wang W, Spellman DS, Bateman K. Investigating Performance of the SLIM-Based High Resolution Ion Mobility Platform for Separation of Isomeric Phosphatidylcholine Species. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2023; 34:2176-2186. [PMID: 37703523 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.3c00157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
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Lipids are structurally diverse molecules that play a pivotal role in a plethora of biological processes. However, deciphering the biological roles of the specific lipids is challenging due to the existence of numerous isomers. This high chemical complexity of the lipidome is one of the major challenges in lipidomics research, as the traditional liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based approaches are often not powerful enough to resolve these isomeric and isobaric nuances within complex samples. Thus, lipids are uniquely suited to the benefits provided by multidimensional liquid chromatography-ion mobility-mass spectrometry (LC-IM-MS) analysis. However, many forms of lipid isomerism, including double-bond positional isomers and regioisomers, are structurally similar such that their collision cross section (CCS) differences are unresolvable via conventional IM approaches. Here we evaluate the performance of a high resolution ion mobility (HRIM) system based on structures for lossless ion manipulation (SLIM) technology interfaced to a high resolution quadrupole time-of-flight (QTOF) analyzer to address the noted lipidomic isomerism challenge. SLIM implements the traveling wave ion mobility technique along an ∼13 m ion path, providing longer path lengths to enable improved separation of isomeric features. We demonstrate the power of HRIM-MS to dissect isomeric PC standards differing only in double bond (DB) and stereospecific number (SN) positions. The partial separation of protonated DB isomers is significantly enhanced when they are analyzed as metal adducts. For sodium adducts, we achieve close to baseline separation of three different PC 18:1/18:1 isomers with different cis-double bond locations. Similarly, PC 18:1/18:1 (cis-9) can be resolved from the corresponding PC 18:1/18:1 (trans-9) form. The separation capacity is further enhanced when using silver ion doping, enabling the baseline separation of regioisomers that cannot be resolved when measured as sodium adducts. The sensitivity and reproducibility of the approach were assessed, and the performance for more complex mixtures was benchmarked by identifying PC isomers in total brain and liver lipid extracts.
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- Komal Kedia
- Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States
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- MOBILion Systems, Inc., Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania 19317, United States
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- Lipidomics Consulting Ltd, Irisviksvägen 31D, 02230 Esbo, Finland
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- MOBILion Systems, Inc., Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania 19317, United States
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- MOBILion Systems, Inc., Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania 19317, United States
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- Molecular Discovery Ltd., Centennial Park, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire WD6 3FG United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States
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- Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States
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Zhang J, Zhang Z, Jiang T, Zhang Z, Zhang W, Xu W. Rapidly identifying and quantifying of unsaturated lipids with carbon-carbon double bond isomers by photoepoxidation. Talanta 2023; 260:124575. [PMID: 37141821 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2023.124575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Unsaturated lipids play an essential role in life activities. Identifying and quantifying their carbon-carbon double bond (CC) isomers have become a hot topic in recent years. In lipidomics, the analysis of unsaturated lipids in complex biological samples usually requires high-throughput methods, which puts forward the requirements of rapid response and simple operation for identification. In this paper, we proposed a photoepoxidation strategy, which uses benzoin to open the double bonds of unsaturated lipids to form epoxides under ultraviolet light and aerobic conditions. Photoepoxidation is controlled by light and has a fast response. After 5 min, the derivatization yield can reach 80% with no side reaction products. Besides, the method has the advantages of high quantitation accuracy and a high yield of diagnostic ions. It was successfully applied to rapidly identify the double bond locations of various unsaturated lipids in both positive and negative ion modes, and to rapidly identify and quantitatively analyze the various isomers of unsaturated lipids in mouse tissue extract. So the method has the potential for large-scale analysis of unsaturated lipids in complex biological samples.
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- Jian Zhang
- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, No.5 Yard, Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun Street, Hai Dian District, Beijing, 100084, China
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, No.5 Yard, Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun Street, Hai Dian District, Beijing, 100084, China
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, No.5 Yard, Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081, China
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, No.5 Yard, Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081, China.
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Freitas DP, Chen X, Hirtzel EA, Edwards ME, Kim J, Wang H, Sun Y, Kocurek KI, Russell D, Yan X. In situ droplet-based on-tissue chemical derivatization for lipid isomer characterization using LESA. Anal Bioanal Chem 2023:10.1007/s00216-023-04653-3. [PMID: 37017722 PMCID: PMC10392465 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-023-04653-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Revised: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 03/14/2023] [Indexed: 04/06/2023]
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In this work, we present an in situ droplet-based derivatization method for fast tissue lipid profiling at multiple isomer levels. On-tissue derivatization for isomer characterization was achieved in a droplet delivered by the TriVersa NanoMate LESA pipette. The derivatized lipids were then extracted and analyzed by the automated chip-based liquid extraction surface analysis (LESA) mass spectrometry (MS) followed by tandem MS to produce diagnostic fragment ions to reveal the lipid isomer structures. Three reactions, i.e., mCPBA epoxidation, photocycloaddition catalyzed by the photocatalyst Ir[dF(CF3)ppy]2(dtbbpy)PF6, and Mn(II) lipid adduction, were applied using the droplet-based derivatization to provide lipid characterization at carbon-carbon double-bond positional isomer and sn-positional isomer levels. Relative quantitation of both types of lipid isomers was also achieved based on diagnostic ion intensities. This method provides the flexibility of performing multiple derivatizations at different spots in the same functional region of an organ for orthogonal lipid isomer analysis using a single tissue slide. Lipid isomers were profiled in the cortex, cerebellum, thalamus, hippocampus, and midbrain of the mouse brain and 24 double-bond positional isomers and 16 sn-positional isomers showed various distributions in those regions. This droplet-based derivatization of tissue lipids allows fast profiling of multi-level isomer identification and quantitation and has great potential in tissue lipid studies requiring rapid sample-to-result turnovers.
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- Dallas P Freitas
- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 580 Ross St, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 580 Ross St, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 580 Ross St, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 580 Ross St, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 580 Ross St, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, Texas A&M University, Carter-Mattil Hall, 373 Olven Blvd, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, Texas A&M University, Carter-Mattil Hall, 373 Olven Blvd, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 580 Ross St, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 580 Ross St, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 580 Ross St, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
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Camunas-Alberca SM, Moran-Garrido M, Sáiz J, Gil-de-la-Fuente A, Barbas C, Gradillas A. Integrating the potential of ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry in the separation and structural characterisation of lipid isomers. Front Mol Biosci 2023; 10:1112521. [PMID: 37006618 PMCID: PMC10060977 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2023.1112521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023] Open
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It is increasingly evident that a more detailed molecular structure analysis of isomeric lipids is critical to better understand their roles in biological processes. The occurrence of isomeric interference complicates conventional tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS)-based determination, necessitating the development of more specialised methodologies to separate lipid isomers. The present review examines and discusses recent lipidomic studies based on ion mobility spectrometry combined with mass spectrometry (IMS-MS). Selected examples of the separation and elucidation of structural and stereoisomers of lipids are described based on their ion mobility behaviour. These include fatty acyls, glycerolipids, glycerophospholipids, sphingolipids, and sterol lipids. Recent approaches for specific applications to improve isomeric lipid structural information using direct infusion, coupling imaging, or liquid chromatographic separation workflows prior to IMS-MS are also discussed, including: 1) strategies to improve ion mobility shifts; 2) advanced tandem MS methods based on activation of lipid ions with electrons or photons, or gas-phase ion-molecule reactions; and 3) the use of chemical derivatisation techniques for lipid characterisation.
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- Sandra M. Camunas-Alberca
- Centro de Metabolómica y Bioanálisis (CEMBIO), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Urbanización Montepríncipe, Boadilla del Monte, Spain
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- Centro de Metabolómica y Bioanálisis (CEMBIO), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Urbanización Montepríncipe, Boadilla del Monte, Spain
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- Centro de Metabolómica y Bioanálisis (CEMBIO), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Urbanización Montepríncipe, Boadilla del Monte, Spain
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- Centro de Metabolómica y Bioanálisis (CEMBIO), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Urbanización Montepríncipe, Boadilla del Monte, Spain
- Departamento de Tecnologías de la Información, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Urbanización Montepríncipe, Boadilla del Monte, Spain
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- Centro de Metabolómica y Bioanálisis (CEMBIO), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Urbanización Montepríncipe, Boadilla del Monte, Spain
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- Centro de Metabolómica y Bioanálisis (CEMBIO), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Urbanización Montepríncipe, Boadilla del Monte, Spain
- *Correspondence: Ana Gradillas,
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Armbruster MR, Mostafa ME, Caldwell RN, Grady SF, Arnatt CK, Edwards JL. Isobaric 6-plex and tosyl dual tagging for the determination of positional isomers and quantitation of monounsaturated fatty acids using rapid UHPLC-MS/MS. Analyst 2023; 148:297-304. [PMID: 36533920 DOI: 10.1039/d2an01699k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Isobaric labelling of fatty acids is complicated by chromatographic co-elution of double bond isomers. This produces contaminated spectra which can mask important biological changes. Here two derivatization strategies are combined to improve throughput and produce MS2 reporters which change mass depending on double bond position. A 6-plex isobaric tag is attached to the acid group, followed by the tosylation of the double bond using chloramine-T. These two derivatizations allowed for the chromatographic resolution of nearly all investigated isomers using a 3.5 minute ultrafast method. Further isomer differentiation is achieved upon fragmentation as reporter masses scale with the double bond location. This occurs by a dual-fragmentation route which reveals the isobaric labelling and fragments along the double bond of each analyte. These unique fragments allowed for accurate quantitation of co-isolated double bond isomers where traditional isobaric tags would experience ratio distortion. Saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids were characterized by this rapid 6-plex method and produced an average signal RSD of 9.3% and R2 of 0.99. The method was then used to characterize fatty acid dysregulation upon inhibition of stearoyl CoA desaturase with CAY10566.
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- Michael R Armbruster
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Saint Louis University, 3501 Laclede Ave, St. Louis, MO, 63103, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Saint Louis University, 3501 Laclede Ave, St. Louis, MO, 63103, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Saint Louis University, 3501 Laclede Ave, St. Louis, MO, 63103, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Saint Louis University, 3501 Laclede Ave, St. Louis, MO, 63103, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Saint Louis University, 3501 Laclede Ave, St. Louis, MO, 63103, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Saint Louis University, 3501 Laclede Ave, St. Louis, MO, 63103, USA.
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Hustin J, Kune C, Far J, Eppe G, Debois D, Quinton L, De Pauw E. Differential Kendrick's Plots as an Innovative Tool for Lipidomics in Complex Samples: Comparison of Liquid Chromatography and Infusion-Based Methods to Sample Differential Study. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2022; 33:2273-2282. [PMID: 36378810 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.2c00232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Lipidomics has developed rapidly over the past decade. Nontargeted lipidomics from biological samples remains a challenge due to the high structural diversity, the concentration range of lipids, and the complexity of biological samples. We introduce here the use of differential Kendrick's plots as a rapid visualization tool for a qualitative nontargeted analysis of lipids categories and classes from data generated by either liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) or direct infusion (nESI-MS). Each lipid class is easily identified by comparison with the theoretical Kendrick plot pattern constructed from exact mass measurements and by using MSKendrickFilter, an in-house Python software. The lipids are identified with the LIPID MAPS database. In addition, in LC-MS, the software based on the Kendrick plots returns the retention time from all the lipids belonging to the same series. Lipid extracts from a yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) are used as a model. An on/off case comparing Kendrick plots from two cell lines (prostate cancer cell lines treated or not with a DGAT2 inhibition) clearly shows the effect of the inhibition. Our study demonstrates the good performance of direct infusion as a fast qualitative screening method as well as for the analysis of chromatograms. A fast screening semiquantitative approach is also possible, while the targeted mode remains the golden standard for precise quantitative analysis.
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- Justine Hustin
- Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, MolSys Research Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Liège, Allée du Six Août 11 - Quartier Agora, 4000Liège, Belgium
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- Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, MolSys Research Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Liège, Allée du Six Août 11 - Quartier Agora, 4000Liège, Belgium
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- Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, MolSys Research Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Liège, Allée du Six Août 11 - Quartier Agora, 4000Liège, Belgium
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- Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, MolSys Research Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Liège, Allée du Six Août 11 - Quartier Agora, 4000Liège, Belgium
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- Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, MolSys Research Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Liège, Allée du Six Août 11 - Quartier Agora, 4000Liège, Belgium
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- Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, MolSys Research Unit, Department of Chemistry, University of Liège, Allée du Six Août 11 - Quartier Agora, 4000Liège, Belgium
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High-end ion mobility mass spectrometry: A current review of analytical capacity in omics applications and structural investigations. Trends Analyt Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2022.116761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Chen Y, Xie C, Wang X, Cao G, Ru Y, Song Y, Iyaswamy A, Li M, Wang J, Cai Z. 3-Acetylpyridine On-Tissue Paternò–Büchi Derivatization Enabling High Coverage Lipid C═C Location-Resolved MS Imaging in Biological Tissues. Anal Chem 2022; 94:15367-15376. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c03089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Yanyan Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon999077, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon999077, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon999077, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon999077, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon999077, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon999077, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Mr. & Mrs. Ko Chi-Ming Centre for Parkinson’s Disease Research, School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon999077, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Mr. & Mrs. Ko Chi-Ming Centre for Parkinson’s Disease Research, School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon999077, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon999077, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Institute for Research and Continuing Education, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon999077, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon999077, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Hynds HM, Hines KM. Ion Mobility Shift Reagents for Lipid Double Bonds Based on Paternò-Büchi Photoderivatization with Halogenated Acetophenones. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2022; 33:1982-1989. [PMID: 36126229 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.2c00211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The Paternò-Büchi (PB) reaction is a cycloaddition reaction between a carbon-carbon double bond (C═C) and a photochemically excited carbonyl-containing compound. The constrained ring formed between the C═C bond and the PB reagent is more susceptible to fragmentation by collision-induced dissociation, which facilitates identification of the C═C position within the fatty acyl tails of lipids. Although the original PB reaction using acetone had a low yield of derivatized lipids and therefore a low yield of diagnostic ions, a new generation of PB reagents based on halogenated acetophenones has improved the reaction yield substantially. In this study, we investigated the use of halogenated PB reagents and ion mobility to improve the identification of PB-derivatized lipids by shifting them out of the densely populated lipid region of ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) space. Several halogenated PB reagents containing fluorine, chlorine and bromine were investigated for their ability to decrease the collision cross-section (CCS) values of derivatized lipids and yield sufficient intensity for both the derivatized lipid and its diagnostic ions. We found that 4'-chloro-2',6'-difluoroacetophenone (CDFAP) displayed the best performance, with an average decrease in CCS of 4.4% and yield of derivatized lipids and diagnostic ions comparable to the trifluorinated acetophenone reagent proposed by the Xia group. The unique isotope pattern resulting from the chlorine substituent aided in identification of the derivatized lipids and their diagnostic ions, as well. We further demonstrate that derivatization with CDFAP preserves the separation of lipids classes in IM-MS space.
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- Hannah M Hynds
- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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Ma X. Recent Advances in Mass Spectrometry-Based Structural Elucidation Techniques. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27196466. [PMID: 36235003 PMCID: PMC9572214 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27196466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 09/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Mass spectrometry (MS) has become the central technique that is extensively used for the analysis of molecular structures of unknown compounds in the gas phase. It manipulates the molecules by converting them into ions using various ionization sources. With high-resolution MS, accurate molecular weights (MW) of the intact molecular ions can be measured so that they can be assigned a molecular formula with high confidence. Furthermore, the application of tandem MS has enabled detailed structural characterization by breaking the intact molecular ions and protonated or deprotonated molecules into key fragment ions. This approach is not only used for the structural elucidation of small molecules (MW < 2000 Da), but also crucial biopolymers such as proteins and polypeptides; therefore, MS has been extensively used in multiomics studies for revealing the structures and functions of important biomolecules and their interactions with each other. The high sensitivity of MS has enabled the analysis of low-level analytes in complex matrices. It is also a versatile technique that can be coupled with separation techniques, including chromatography and ion mobility, and many other analytical instruments such as NMR. In this review, we aim to focus on the technical advances of MS-based structural elucidation methods over the past five years, and provide an overview of their applications in complex mixture analysis. We hope this review can be of interest for a wide range of audiences who may not have extensive experience in MS-based techniques.
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- Xin Ma
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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Velosa DC, Dunham AJ, Rivera ME, Neal SP, Chouinard CD. Improved Ion Mobility Separation and Structural Characterization of Steroids using Derivatization Methods. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2022; 33:1761-1771. [PMID: 35914213 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.2c00164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Steroids are an important class of biomolecules studied for their role in metabolism, development, nutrition, and disease. Although highly sensitive GC- and LC-MS/MS-based methods have been developed for targeted quantitation of known steroid metabolites, emerging techniques including ion mobility (IM) have shown promise in improved analysis and capacity to better identify unknowns in complex biological samples. Herein, we couple LC-IM-MS/MS with structurally selective reactions targeting hydroxyl and carbonyl functional groups to improve IM resolution and structural elucidation. We demonstrate that 1,1-carbonyldiimidazole derivatization of hydroxyl stereoisomer pairs such as testosterone/epitestosterone and androsterone/epiandrosterone results in increased IM resolution with ΔCCS > 15%. Additionally, performing this in parallel with derivatization of the carbonyl group by Girard's Reagent P resulted in unique products based on relative differences in number of each functional group and C17 alkylation. These changes could be easily deciphered using the combination of retention time, collision cross section, accurate mass, and MS/MS fragmentation pattern. Derivatization by Girard's Reagent P, which contains a fixed charge quaternary amine, also increased the ionization efficiency and could be explored for its potential benefit to sensitivity. Overall, the combination of these simple and easy derivatization reactions with LC-IM-MS/MS analysis provides a method for improved analysis of known target analytes while also yielding critical structural information that can be used for identification of potential unknowns.
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- Diana C Velosa
- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32904, United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32904, United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32904, United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32904, United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32904, United States
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Paglia G, Smith AJ, Astarita G. Ion mobility mass spectrometry in the omics era: Challenges and opportunities for metabolomics and lipidomics. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2022; 41:722-765. [PMID: 33522625 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Revised: 01/17/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Researchers worldwide are taking advantage of novel, commercially available, technologies, such as ion mobility mass spectrometry (IM-MS), for metabolomics and lipidomics applications in a variety of fields including life, biomedical, and food sciences. IM-MS provides three main technical advantages over traditional LC-MS workflows. Firstly, in addition to mass, IM-MS allows collision cross-section values to be measured for metabolites and lipids, a physicochemical identifier related to the chemical shape of an analyte that increases the confidence of identification. Second, IM-MS increases peak capacity and the signal-to-noise, improving fingerprinting as well as quantification, and better defining the spatial localization of metabolites and lipids in biological and food samples. Third, IM-MS can be coupled with various fragmentation modes, adding new tools to improve structural characterization and molecular annotation. Here, we review the state-of-the-art in IM-MS technologies and approaches utilized to support metabolomics and lipidomics applications and we assess the challenges and opportunities in this growing field.
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- Giuseppe Paglia
- School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Vedano al Lambro (MB), Italy
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- School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Vedano al Lambro (MB), Italy
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Rabow Z, Laubach K, Kong X, Shen T, Mohibi S, Zhang J, Fiehn O, Chen X. p73α1, an Isoform of the p73 Tumor Suppressor, Modulates Lipid Metabolism and Cancer Cell Growth via Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase-1. Cells 2022; 11:2516. [PMID: 36010592 PMCID: PMC9406568 DOI: 10.3390/cells11162516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2022] [Revised: 08/10/2022] [Accepted: 08/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Altered lipid metabolism is a hallmark of cancer. p73, a p53 family member, regulates cellular processes and is expressed as multiple isoforms. However, the role of p73 in regulating lipid metabolism is not well-characterized. Previously, we found that loss of p73 exon 12 (E12) leads to an isoform switch from p73α to p73α1, the latter of which has strong tumor suppressive activity. In this study, comprehensive untargeted metabolomics was performed to determine whether p73α1 alters lipid metabolism in non-small cell lung carcinoma cells. RNA-seq and molecular biology approaches were combined to identify lipid metabolism genes altered upon loss of E12 and identify a direct target of p73α1. We found that loss of E12 leads to decreased levels of phosphatidylcholines, and this was due to decreased expression of genes involved in phosphatidylcholine synthesis. Additionally, we found that E12-knockout cells had increased levels of phosphatidylcholines containing saturated fatty acids (FAs) and decreased levels of phosphatidylcholines containing monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs). We then found that p73α1 inhibits cancer cell viability through direct transcriptional suppression of Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase-1 (SCD1), which converts saturated FAs to MUFAs. Finally, we showed that p73α1-mediated suppression of SCD1 leads to increased ratios of saturated FAs to MUFAs.
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- Zachary Rabow
- West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Comparative Oncology Laboratory, Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Comparative Oncology Laboratory, Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Comparative Oncology Laboratory, Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Comparative Oncology Laboratory, Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- West Coast Metabolomics Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Comparative Oncology Laboratory, Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Du S, Su M, Wang C, Ding Z, Jiang Y, Liu H. Pinpointing Alkane Chain Length, Saturation, and Double Bond Regio- and Stereoisomers by Liquid Interfacial Plasmonic Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Anal Chem 2022; 94:2891-2900. [PMID: 35119828 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c04774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The lipids with a rich diversity of isomers face a formidable challenge in comprehensive structural analysis. The commonly used mass spectrometry-based techniques usually require a considerable number of molecules with sophisticated chemical derivatization or ion mobility separation, but the co-existing of structurally similar isomers often makes the distinction impossible. Here, we develop an alternative powerful liquid/liquid interfacial surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) strategy at normal temperature and pressure without any sources of ionization or radiation. This strategy generates high-resolution fingerprints in molecular chain length, C═C position, saturation, and regio- and stereoisomers of both glycerides and fatty acids and requires only trace amounts of molecules down to 1 ppb to achieve discrimination and exhibits great potentials to push the identification capability to trace levels or even the single-molecule level. According to experimental data and theoretical simulations, these targets have the amphiphilic and emulsifying properties, exhibit ordered molecular orientation and adsorption patterns, promote the co-assembly with plasmonic nanoarrays at the immiscible liquid/liquid interface, and consequently amplify the detection sensitivity. As a contrast, the typical SERS based on solid/air interfacial plasmonic nanoarrays faces the intrinsic bottleneck of extremely weak intensity and indistinguishable spectral fingerprints of lipid molecules. The vibrational fingerprints exhibit a rich range of well-resolved absorption features that are clearly diagnostic for fine structural changes and pave a new way for straightforward measurement without laborsome sample purification, enrichment, or complex derivatization. Although challenging, its unprecedented resolving power expands the potentials of SERS, serving as an ultimate analytical method to provide insights into the detailed structural features of other lipids under facile conditions in the future.
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- Shanshan Du
- China Light Industry Key Laboratory of Meat Microbial Control and Utilization, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- China Light Industry Key Laboratory of Meat Microbial Control and Utilization, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, China
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- China Light Industry Key Laboratory of Meat Microbial Control and Utilization, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- China Light Industry Key Laboratory of Meat Microbial Control and Utilization, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- China Light Industry Key Laboratory of Meat Microbial Control and Utilization, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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Sosnowski P, Marin V, Tian X, Hopfgartner G. Analysis of illicit pills and drugs of abuse in urine samples using a 3D-printed open port probe hyphenated with differential mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry. Analyst 2022; 147:4318-4325. [PMID: 36040388 DOI: 10.1039/d2an00925k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The present work describes the application of an in-house developed 3D-printed open port probe (3DP-OPP) with differential ion mobility spectrometry (DMS) mass spectrometry.
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- Piotr Sosnowski
- Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest Ansermet 24, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest Ansermet 24, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest Ansermet 24, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest Ansermet 24, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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Zaikin VG, Borisov RS. Mass Spectrometry as a Crucial Analytical Basis for Omics Sciences. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2021. [PMCID: PMC8693159 DOI: 10.1134/s1061934821140094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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This review is devoted to the consideration of mass spectrometric platforms as applied to omics sciences. The most significant attention is paid to omics related to life sciences (genomics, proteomics, meta-bolomics, lipidomics, glycomics, plantomics, etc.). Mass spectrometric approaches to solving the problems of petroleomics, polymeromics, foodomics, humeomics, and exosomics, related to inorganic sciences, are also discussed. The review comparatively presents the advantages of various principles of separation and mass spectral techniques, complementary derivatization, used to obtain large arrays of various structural and quantitative information in the mentioned omics sciences.
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- V. G. Zaikin
- Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
- RUDN University, 117198 Moscow, Russia
- Core Facility Center “Arktika,” Northern (Arctic) Federal University, 163002 Arkhangelsk, Russia
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Zhang J, Guo C, Huo X, Ma X, Li X, Abliz Z, Chu Y, Wang X, Tang F. Unsaturated lipid isomeric imaging based on the Paternò-Büchi reaction in the solid phase in ambient conditions. Talanta 2021; 235:122816. [PMID: 34517672 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2021] [Revised: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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In recent years, the development of unsaturated lipid isomeric imaging based on the Paternò-Büchi (PB) reaction has improved significantly. However, research on this imaging method in ambient conditions needs to expand. In this paper, a method of PB reaction in the solid phase in ambient conditions is developed, which is combined with air-flow-assisted desorption electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (AFADESI-MS) to achieve in situ imaging of lipids at an isomeric level. Experiments showed that the efficiency of the PB reaction was much higher when spraying the reagent solution than when sprinkling the reactant powder directly, and it was not lower than that in the liquid phase. This method can simplify the reaction conditions in the imaging process and can be applied to tissue section samples with only 10 min of pre-processing. The study successfully demonstrated the spatial distribution of unsaturated lipid isomers, and the isomeric ratio corresponded to the lesion areas in mouse brain cancer tissues. Due to its simple operation and performance in ambient conditions, this method may be useful for future studies on lipid isomers in tissues.
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- Jian Zhang
- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, No.5 Yard, Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081, China; State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen University Town, Lishui Road, Xili Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Function of Natural Medicines, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, A2 Nanwei Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100050, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Function of Natural Medicines, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, A2 Nanwei Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100050, China; Centre for Imaging and Systems Biology, Minzu University of China, No.27 Yard, Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100091, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100084, China.
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Peterka O, Jirásko R, Vaňková Z, Chocholoušková M, Wolrab D, Kulhánek J, Bureš F, Holčapek M. Simple and Reproducible Derivatization with Benzoyl Chloride: Improvement of Sensitivity for Multiple Lipid Classes in RP-UHPLC/MS. Anal Chem 2021; 93:13835-13843. [PMID: 34623138 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The chemical derivatization of multiple lipid classes was developed using benzoyl chloride as a nonhazardous derivatization agent at ambient conditions. The derivatization procedure was optimized with standards for 4 nonpolar and 8 polar lipid classes and measured by reversed-phase ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. The derivatization and nonderivatization approaches were compared on the basis of the calibration curves of 22 internal standards from 12 lipid classes. The new method decreased the limit of detection 9-fold for monoacylglycerols (0.9-1.0 nmol/mL), 6.5-fold for sphingoid base (0.2 nmol/mL), and 3-fold for diacylglycerols (0.9 nmol/mL). The sensitivity expressed by the ratio of calibration slopes was increased 2- to 10-fold for almost all investigated lipid classes and even more than 100-fold for monoacylglycerols. Moreover, the benzoylation reaction produces a more stable derivative of cholesterol in comparison to the easily in-source fragmented nonderivatized form and enabled the detection of fatty acids in a positive ion mode, which does not require polarity switching as for the nonderivatized form. The intralaboratory comparison with an additional operator without previous derivatization experiences shows the simplicity, robustness, and reproducibility. The stability of the derivatives was determined by periodical measurements during a one month period and five freeze/thaw cycles. The fully optimized derivatization method was applied to human plasma, which allows the detection of 169 lipid species from 11 lipid classes using the high confidence level of identification in reversed-phase (RP)-ultra high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC)/mass spectrometry (MS). Generally, we detected more lipid species for monoacylglycerols, diacylglycerols, and sphingoid bases in comparison with previously reported papers without the derivatization.
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- Ondřej Peterka
- University of Pardubice, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Studentská 573, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic
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- University of Pardubice, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Studentská 573, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic
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- University of Pardubice, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Studentská 573, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic
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- University of Pardubice, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Studentská 573, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic
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- University of Pardubice, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Studentská 573, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic
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- University of Pardubice, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Studentská 573, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic
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- University of Pardubice, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Studentská 573, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic
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- University of Pardubice, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Studentská 573, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic
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Li Y, Chen J, Meng L, He L, Liu H, Xiong C, Nie Z. Pocket-Size "MasSpec Pointer" for Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2021; 93:13326-13333. [PMID: 34569226 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c03087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Current ambient ionization sources for mass spectrometry (MS) are typically connected to gas cylinders, high-voltage supply, injection pump, and other accessory equipment, which hinder the popularization of MS in the field of on-site detection. Here, we developed a wireless pocket-size "MasSpec Pointer" (weights 65 g) based on arc discharge powered by a 3.7 V polymer Li battery for ambient ionization MS. A high voltage of 5600 V and 20 kHz was generated from the boost coil to penetrate air and form a plasma. The relative standard deviation (RSD) of the high-voltage pulses is 3.8%, leading to a stable discharge and a good quantification performance. A mini diaphragm pump was used to cool the plasma from ∼600 to ∼40 °C and to blow the plasma into a jet, which facilitates sampling. MasSpec Pointer can work well at both positive- and negative-ion modes without any modification and can quickly test gaseous, liquid, or solid samples. The limit of detection of this device for atrazine (an agrochemical) is lower than 0.1 ng/mL. MasSpec Pointer has shown its ability to pinpoint the double-bond location of fatty acid isomers without derivatization reagents or light illumination. Agrochemicals from the surface of an apple and daily chemicals from the surface of a finger were detected successfully using MasSpec Pointer coupled with a miniature mass spectrometer. We believe the "point-and-shoot" device coupled with mini-MS brings the hope for an age of detecting chemicals on-site by nonprofessionals.
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- Yuze Li
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Saparbaev E, Yamaletdinov R, Boyarkin OV. Identification of Isomeric Lipids by UV Spectroscopy of Noncovalent Complexes with Aromatic Molecules. Anal Chem 2021; 93:12822-12826. [PMID: 34516082 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The tremendous structural and isomeric diversity of lipids enables a wide range of their functions in nature but makes the identification of these biomolecules challenging. We distinguish and quantify isomeric lipids using cold ion UV fragmentation spectroscopy of their noncovalent complexes with aromatic amino acids and dipeptides. On the basis of structural simulations, specific isomer-sensitive aromatic "sensors" have been preselected for lipids of each studied class. Tyrosine appeared to be a good "sensor" to distinguish steroids and prostaglandins, which are rich in functional groups, while diphenylalanine is a better choice for sensing largely hydrophobic phospholipids. With this sensor, the relative concentrations of two isomeric glycerophospholipids mixed in solution have been determined with 3.3% accuracy, which should degrade only to 3.7% for a 14 s express measurement.
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- Erik Saparbaev
- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Freeman C, Hynds HM, Carpenter JM, Appala K, Bimpeh K, Barbarek S, Gatto C, Wilkinson BJ, Hines KM. Revealing Fatty Acid Heterogeneity in Staphylococcal Lipids with Isotope Labeling and RPLC-IM-MS. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2021; 32:2376-2385. [PMID: 34014662 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.1c00092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Up to 80% of the fatty acids in Staphylococcus aureus membrane lipids are branched, rather than straight-chain, fatty acids. The branched fatty acids (BCFAs) may have either an even or odd number of carbons, and the branch position may be at the penultimate carbon (iso) or the antepenultimate (anteiso) carbon of the tail. This results in two sets of isomeric fatty acid species with the same number of carbons that cannot be resolved by mass spectrometry. The isomer/isobar challenge is further complicated when the mixture of BCFAs and straight-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are esterified into diacylated lipids such as the phosphatidylglycerol (PG) species of the S. aureus membrane. No conventional chromatographic method has been able to resolve diacylated lipids containing mixtures of SCFAs, anteiso-odd, iso-odd, and iso-even BCFAs. A major hurdle to method development in this area is the lack of relevant analytical standards for lipids containing BCFA isomers. The diversity of the S. aureus lipidome and its naturally high levels of BCFAs present an opportunity to explore the potential of resolving diacylated lipids containing BCFAs and SFCAs. Using our knowledge of lipid and fatty acid biosynthesis in S. aureus, we have used a stable-isotope-labeling strategy to develop and validate a 30 min C18 reversed-phase liquid chromatography method combined with traveling-wave ion mobility-mass spectrometry to provide resolution of diacylated lipids based on the number of BCFAs that they contain.
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- Christian Freeman
- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790, United States
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790, United States
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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Davis DE, Leaptrot KL, Koomen DC, May JC, Cavalcanti GDA, Padilha MC, Pereira HMG, McLean JA. Multidimensional Separations of Intact Phase II Steroid Metabolites Utilizing LC-Ion Mobility-HRMS. Anal Chem 2021; 93:10990-10998. [PMID: 34319704 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The detection and unambiguous identification of anabolic-androgenic steroid metabolites are essential in clinical, forensic, and antidoping analyses. Recently, sulfate phase II steroid metabolites have received increased attention in steroid metabolism and drug testing. In large part, this is because phase II steroid metabolites are excreted for an extended time, making them a potential long-term chemical marker of choice for tracking steroid misuse in sports. Comprehensive analytical methods, such as liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), have been used to detect and identify glucuronide and sulfate steroids in human urine with high sensitivity and reliability. However, LC-MS/MS identification strategies can be hindered by the fact that phase II steroid metabolites generate nonselective ion fragments across the different metabolite markers, limiting the confidence in metabolite identifications that rely on exact mass measurement and MS/MS information. Additionally, liquid chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) is sometimes insufficient at fully resolving the analyte peaks from the sample matrix (commonly urine) chemical noise, further complicating accurate identification efforts. Therefore, we developed a liquid chromatography-ion mobility-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-IM-HRMS) method to increase the peak capacity and utilize the IM-derived collision cross section (CCS) values as an additional molecular descriptor for increased selectivity and to improve identifications of intact steroid analyses at low concentrations.
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- Don E Davis
- Department of Chemistry, Center for Innovative Technology, Institute of Chemical Biology, Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Innovative Technology, Institute of Chemical Biology, Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Innovative Technology, Institute of Chemical Biology, Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Innovative Technology, Institute of Chemical Biology, Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory (LBCD), Chemistry Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-598, Brazil
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- Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory (LBCD), Chemistry Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-598, Brazil
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- Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory (LBCD), Chemistry Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-598, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Innovative Technology, Institute of Chemical Biology, Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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Wang DH, Park HG, Wang Z, Lacombe RJS, Shmanai VV, Bekish AV, Schmidt K, Shchepinov MS, Brenna JT. Toward Quantitative Sequencing of Deuteration of Unsaturated Hydrocarbon Chains in Fatty Acids. Anal Chem 2021; 93:8238-8247. [PMID: 34048647 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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No general method currently is available for the quantitative determination of deuterium (D) at C positions along a hydrocarbon chain. Bis-allylic deuterated highly unsaturated fatty acids (D-HUFA) are a novel class of drugs stabilized against H-abstraction-mediated oxidation by deuteration at the most labile positions. Ru-based catalytic deuteration overcomes the limited scale of bis-allylic D-HUFA production by total organic synthesis; however, it produces a complex mixture of bis-allylic D isotopologues and isotopomers, requiring detailed sequencing for characterization. We report here adaptation and application of the Paternó-Büchi (PB) reaction of 2-acetylpyridine to a series of D-HUFA with analysis by shotgun lipidomics to determine position-specific quantitative D abundances. Sodiated PBD-HUFA result in diagnostic ions of high abundance upon collision-induced dissociation (CID) activation, enabling sensitive differentiation and quantification of D fraction at each bis- and mono-allylic position for each isotopologue. Catalytically deuterated isotopologues D5-7 linolenic acid (D5-7 LnA), D6-8 arachidonic acid (D6-8 ARA), D7-9 eicosapentaenoic acid (D7-9 EPA), and D9-11 docosahexaenoic acid (D9-11 DHA) incorporate 80-98, 95-100, 81-100, and 83-100% D at their bis-allylic positions, respectively. D-HUFA isotopologues having D number greater than or equal to bis-allylic sites (e.g., D10-DHA or D11-DHA) deuterated >95% at bis-allylic positions, except for D-LnA. The mono-allylic position near the methyl end deuterates to a much greater extent than the mono-allylic position near the carboxyl end, and both positions deuterate only when bis-allylic D is near-saturated. This method enables rapid, accurate characterization of position and isotopomer-specific D composition and enables sequencing along the chain.
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- Dong Hao Wang
- Division of Nutritional Sciences and Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences and Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences and Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Science of Belarus, 13 Surganova Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus
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- Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Science of Belarus, 13 Surganova Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences and Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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Luo K, Chen H, Zare RN. Location of carbon-carbon double bonds in unsaturated lipids using microdroplet mass spectrometry. Analyst 2021; 146:2550-2558. [PMID: 33899059 DOI: 10.1039/d0an02396e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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An aqueous solution containing unsaturated fatty acids (100 μM) or lipids (50 μg mL-1) and chloroauric acid (HAuCl4, 10 μM) is electrosprayed (-4.5 kV for unsaturated fatty acids and +4.0 kV for lipids) from a 50 μm diameter capillary with N2 nebulizing gas (60 psi), and the resulting microdroplets enter a mass spectrometer with a flight distance of 10 mm for chemical analysis. The HAuCl4 oxidizes the C[double bond, length as m-dash]C double bond to cause the formation of an aldehyde group or a hydroxyl group on one side and a carboxyl group on the other (i.e., CHO-R-COOH or HO-R-COOH), allowing the location of the double bond to be identified. This approach was successfully applied to four unsaturated fatty acids [linoleic acid (LA), ricinoleic acid (RA), isooleic acid (IA), and nervonic acid (NA)] and two phospholipids [1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) and L-α-lysophosphatidylcholine (lysoPC)]. A mechanism for this transformation is proposed, which involves epoxidation of the double bond, followed by the formation of the final products. This method has the advantages of being simple and rapid, and requiring a small amount of analyte.
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- Kai Luo
- Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Jiangwan Campus, Shanghai 200438, China.
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- Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Jiangwan Campus, Shanghai 200438, China.
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Zhang H, Xu M, Shi X, Liu Y, Li Z, Jagodinsky JC, Ma M, Welham NV, Morris ZS, Li L. Quantification and molecular imaging of fatty acid isomers from complex biological samples by mass spectrometry. Chem Sci 2021; 12:8115-8122. [PMID: 34194701 PMCID: PMC8208125 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc01614h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Elucidating the isomeric structure of free fatty acids (FAs) in biological samples is essential to comprehend their biological functions in various physiological and pathological processes. Herein, we report a novel approach of using peracetic acid (PAA) induced epoxidation coupled with mass spectrometry (MS) for localization of the C[double bond, length as m-dash]C bond in unsaturated FAs, which enables both quantification and spatial visualization of FA isomers from biological samples. Abundant diagnostic fragment ions indicative of the C[double bond, length as m-dash]C positions were produced upon fragmentation of the FA epoxides derived from either in-solution or on-tissue PAA epoxidation of free FAs. The performance of the proposed approach was evaluated by analysis of FAs in human cell lines as well as mapping the FA isomers from cancer tissue samples with MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS. Merits of the newly developed method include high sensitivity, simplicity, high reaction efficiency, and capability of spatial characterization of FA isomers in tissue samples.
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- Hua Zhang
- School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI 53705 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI 53706 USA
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- Division of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI 53792 USA
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI 53705 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI 53706 USA
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- Department of Human Oncology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI 53705 USA
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI 53705 USA
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- Division of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI 53792 USA
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- Department of Human Oncology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI 53705 USA
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI 53705 USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison WI 53706 USA
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Ruskic D, Klont F, Hopfgartner G. Clustering and Nonclustering Modifier Mixtures in Differential Mobility Spectrometry for Multidimensional Liquid Chromatography Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry Analysis. Anal Chem 2021; 93:6638-6645. [PMID: 33891812 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Modifiers provide fast and reliable tuning of separation in differential mobility spectrometry (DMS). DMS selectivity for separating isomeric molecules depends on the clustering modifier concentration, which is typically 1.5-3 mol % ratio of isopropanol or ethanol in nitrogen. Low concentrations (0.1%) of isopropanol were found to improve resolution and sensitivity but at the cost of practicality and robustness. Replacing the single-channel DMS pump with a binary high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) pump enabled the generation of modifier mixtures at a constant flow rate using an isocratic or gradient mode, and the analytical benefits of the system were investigated considering cyclohexane, n-hexane, or n-octane as nonclustering modifiers and isopropanol or ethanol as clustering modifiers. It was found that clustering and nonclustering modifier mixtures enable optimization of selectivity, resolution, and sensitivity for different positional isomers and diastereoisomers. Data further suggested different ion separation mechanisms depending on the modifier ratios. For 85 analytes, the absolute difference in compensation voltages (CoVs) between pure nitrogen and cyclohexane at 1.5 mol % ratio was below 4 V, demonstrating its potential as a nonclustering modifier. Cyclohexane's nonclustering behavior was further supported by molecular modeling using density functional theory (DFT) and calculated cluster binding energies, showing positive ΔG values. The ability to control analyte CoVs by adjusting modifier concentrations in isocratic and gradient modes is beneficial for optimizing multidimensional LCxDMS-MS. It is fast and effective for manipulating the DMS scanning window size to realize shorter mass spectrometry (MS) acquisition cycle times while maintaining a sufficient number of CoV steps and without compromising DMS separation performance.
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- David Ruskic
- Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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Ieritano C, Rickert D, Featherstone J, Honek JF, Campbell JL, Blanc JCYL, Schneider BB, Hopkins WS. The Charge-State and Structural Stability of Peptides Conferred by Microsolvating Environments in Differential Mobility Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2021; 32:956-968. [PMID: 33733774 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.0c00469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The presence of solvent vapor in a differential mobility spectrometry (DMS) cell creates a microsolvating environment that can mitigate complications associated with field-induced heating. In the case of peptides, the microsolvation of protonation sites results in a stabilization of charge density through localized solvent clustering, sheltering the ion from collisional activation. Seeding the DMS carrier gas (N2) with a solvent vapor prevented nearly all field-induced fragmentation of the protonated peptides GGG, AAA, and the Lys-rich Polybia-MP1 (IDWKKLLDAAKQIL-NH2). Modeling the microsolvation propensity of protonated n-propylamine [PrNH3]+, a mimic of the Lys side chain and N-terminus, with common gas-phase modifiers (H2O, MeOH, EtOH, iPrOH, acetone, and MeCN) confirms that all solvent molecules form stable clusters at the site of protonation. Moreover, modeling populations of microsolvated clusters indicates that species containing protonated amine moieties exist as microsolvated species with one to six solvent ligands at all effective ion temperatures (Teff) accessible during a DMS experiment (ca. 375-600 K). Calculated Teff of protonated GGG, AAA, and Polybia-MPI using a modified two-temperature theory approach were up to 86 K cooler in DMS environments seeded with solvent vapor compared to pure N2 environments. Stabilizing effects were largely driven by an increase in the ion's apparent collision cross section and by evaporative cooling processes induced by the dynamic evaporation/condensation cycles incurred in the presence of an oscillating electric separation field. When the microsolvating partner was a protic solvent, abstraction of a proton from [MP1 + 3H]3+ to yield [MP1 + 2H]2+ was observed. This result was attributed to the proclivity of protic solvents to form hydrogen-bond networks with enhanced gas-phase basicity. Collectively, microsolvation provides analytes with a solvent "air bag," whereby charge reduction and microsolvation-induced stabilization were shown to shelter peptides from the fragmentation induced by field heating and may play a role in preserving native-like ion configurations.
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- Christian Ieritano
- Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
- Watermine Innovation, Waterloo N0B 2T0, Ontario, Canada
- Bedrock Scientific, Milton L6T 6J9, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
- Watermine Innovation, Waterloo N0B 2T0, Ontario, Canada
- Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
- Centre for Eye and Vision Research, Hong Kong Science Park, New Territories 999077, Hong Kong
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Buntasana S, Seankongsuk P, Vilaivan T, Padungros P. Household Ozone Disinfector as An Alternative Ozone Generator for Ozonolysis of Alkenes. ASIAN J ORG CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.202100024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Supanat Buntasana
- Green Chemistry for Fine Chemical Productions STAR Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University Phayathai Road, Pathumwan Bangkok 10330 Thailand
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- Organic Synthesis Research Unit Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University Phayathai Road, Pathumwan Bangkok 10330 Thailand
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- Organic Synthesis Research Unit Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University Phayathai Road, Pathumwan Bangkok 10330 Thailand
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- Green Chemistry for Fine Chemical Productions STAR Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University Phayathai Road, Pathumwan Bangkok 10330 Thailand
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Bouza M, Li Y, Wang AC, Wang ZL, Fernández FM. Triboelectric Nanogenerator Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry for In-Depth Lipid Annotation. Anal Chem 2021; 93:5468-5475. [PMID: 33720699 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c05145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Lipids play a critical role in cell membrane integrity, signaling, and energy storage. However, in-depth structural characterization of lipids is still challenging and not routinely possible in lipidomics experiments. Techniques such as collision-induced dissociation (CID) tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS), ion mobility (IM) spectrometry, and ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography are not yet capable of fully characterizing double-bond and sn-chain position of lipids in a high-throughput manner. Herein, we report on the ability to structurally characterize lipids using large-area triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) coupled with time-aligned parallel (TAP) fragmentation IM-MS analysis. Gas-phase lipid epoxidation during TENG ionization, coupled to mobility-resolved MS3 via TAP IM-MS, enabled the acquisition of detailed information on the presence and position of lipid C═C double bonds, the fatty acyl sn-chain position and composition, and the cis/trans geometrical C═C isomerism. The proposed methodology proved useful for the shotgun lipidomics analysis of lipid extracts from biological samples, enabling the detailed annotation of numerous lipid isobars.
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- Marcos Bouza
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.,NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.,Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101400, China
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.,NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Wu F, Yang S, Dai X, Gu L, Xu F, Fang X, Yu S, Ding CF. Discrimination of Aminobiphenyl Isomers in the Gas Phase and Investigation of Their Complex Conformations. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2021; 32:716-724. [PMID: 33527834 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.0c00426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The analysis of positional isomers is of great significance because their different chemical properties but similar structures make separation difficult. In this work, a simple method for simultaneously discriminating three positional isomers of 2-aminobiphenyl (2-ABP), 3-ABP, and 4-ABP was studied by ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and quantum mechanical calculations at the molecular level. In the experiments, three ABP isomers were mixed with α-, β-, and γ-cyclodextrins (CD), and the IMS results show that the three ABP isomers were clearly recognized by the formed complex of [α-CD + ABP + H]+ via measuring their IMS, in which the different ion mobilities of 1.515, 1.544, 1.585 V·s·com-2 with the collision cross sections (CCS) of 307.3, 312.5, 320.8 Å2 were obtained for [α-CD + 2-ABP + H]+, [α-CD + 3-ABP + H]+, and [α-CD + 4-ABP + H]+, respectively. Collision induced dissociation analysis of the three [α-CD + ABP + H]+ isomer complexes were further studied, indicating that the same fragmentation process required different collisional energies, and the greater the CCS for the [α-CD + ABP + H]+ with looser structure and the smaller energy required. Besides, the favorable conformation and the CCS value of the different [CD + ABP + H]+ isomer complexes were measured via quantum mechanical calculations to detail their intermolecular interactions. It revealed that the intermolecular binding between 2-ABP and α-CD is different from that of 3- and 4-ABP, resulting in different molecular conformations and CCS, and the interaction modes of ABP with β-CD are similar to that with γ-CD, which are very consistent with the experimental observations. Finally, relative quantification of the method was performed, and satisfactory linearity with correlation coefficients (R2) greater than 0.99 was obtained. This method for isomer discrimination and conformation analysis possesses the advantages of simplicity, sensitivity, cost-effectiveness, and as such it may be widely applied in chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences.
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- Fangling Wu
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
- National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
- National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
- National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
- National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
- National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
- National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
- National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Analysis, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
- National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100029, China
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Maddox SW, Olsen SSH, Velosa DC, Burkus-Matesevac A, Peverati R, Chouinard CD. Improved Identification of Isomeric Steroids Using the Paternò-Büchi Reaction with Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 31:2086-2092. [PMID: 32870679 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.0c00215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The Paternò-Büchi (PB) reaction is a common organic reaction in which a carbonyl radical formed by exposure to UV radiation reacts with an alkene to form an oxetane ring. Recent analytical applications of this reaction have included the determination of C═C bond position in lipid fatty acyl tails using tandem mass spectrometry. Our group has recently investigated methods for structurally modifying steroid isomers to improve their identification and resolution using ion mobility spectrometry. Herein, we report the first application of the Paternò-Büchi reaction to form steroid oxetanes using a simple, low-cost, and high efficiency method with a low pressure mercury lamp. This methodology is performed on several endogenous steroid isomers, resulting in unique ion mobility spectra that provide a unique fingerprint for each. These fingerprint spectra can add confidence in identification of those compounds, especially in complex biological matrixes. Testosterone and epitestosterone, an epimer pair commonly interrogated in a number of applications such as for their use as performance enhancing drugs, displayed one and three unique ion mobility peaks, respectively. These spectra and their measured collision cross sections (CCS) allow for unambiguous differentiation of these and several other steroid isomer groups analyzed in this work. Finally, multiple anabolic androgenic steroids prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency were tested with this method and resulted in unique CCS for their PB reaction products. This approach can offer improved confidence in their identification as well as for many other banned substances.
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- Samuel W Maddox
- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32901, United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32901, United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32901, United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32901, United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32901, United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 32901, United States
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Zhao J, Xie X, Lin Q, Ma X, Su P, Xia Y. Next-Generation Paternò–Büchi Reagents for Lipid Analysis by Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2020; 92:13470-13477. [PMID: 32840355 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c02896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- Jing Zhao
- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Blevins MS, James VK, Herrera CM, Purcell AB, Trent MS, Brodbelt JS. Unsaturation Elements and Other Modifications of Phospholipids in Bacteria: New Insight from Ultraviolet Photodissociation Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2020; 92:9146-9155. [PMID: 32479092 PMCID: PMC7384744 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Glycerophospholipids (GPLs), one of the main components of bacterial cell membranes, exhibit high levels of structural complexity that are directly correlated with biophysical membrane properties such as permeability and fluidity. This structural complexity arises from the substantial variability in the individual GPL structural components such as the acyl chain length and headgroup type and is further amplified by the presence of modifications such as double bonds and cyclopropane rings. Here we use liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution and high-mass-accuracy ultraviolet photodissociation mass spectrometry for the most in-depth study of bacterial GPL modifications to date. In doing so, we unravel a diverse array of unexplored GPL modifications, ranging from acyl chain hydroxyl groups to novel headgroup structures. Along with characterizing these modifications, we elucidate general trends in bacterial GPL unsaturation elements and thus aim to decipher some of the biochemical pathways of unsaturation incorporation in bacterial GPLs. Finally, we discover aminoacyl-PGs not only in Gram-positive bacteria but also in Gram-negative C. jejuni, advancing our knowledge of the methods of surface charge modulation that Gram-negative organisms may adopt for antibiotic resistance.
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- Molly S Blevins
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Department of Microbiology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Wang DH, Wang Z, Cortright JR, Le KP, Liu L, Kothapalli KSD, Brenna JT. Identification of Polymethylene-Interrupted Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (PMI-PUFA) by Solvent-Mediated Covalent Adduct Chemical Ionization Triple Quadrupole Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2020; 92:8209-8217. [PMID: 32463662 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Pine nuts and other edible gymnosperm seeds contain unusual, bioactive polymethylene-interrupted polyunsaturated fatty acids (PMI-PUFAs), a subset of nonmethylene-interrupted PUFA with (-CH2-)n≥2 intervening between double bonds. Conventional methods for structure elucidation of PMI-PUFAs require special derivatization risking rearrangement artifacts. Here we introduce a facile solvent-mediated (SM) covalent adduct chemical ionization (CACI) system modified with a triple quadrupole MS, which distinguishes PMI-PUFAs from their analogues in direct methyl ester form. The prominent Δ5 desaturated PMI-PUFAs exhibit characteristic fragmentation at C6-7 to yield ω diagnostic ions and share their fragmentation pattern with normal methylene interrupted PUFAs for the α diagnostic ion. H• transfer upon CID dissociation of PMI-PUFAs was found to be dependent on the relative position of isolated lone double bonds and cleavage points. Ginkgo and five species of pine nuts were characterized for their unique Δ5 fatty acid profile, without the need for chemical standards.
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- Dong Hao Wang
- Dell Pediatric Research Institute, Depts of Pediatrics, of Chemistry, and of Nutrition, University of Texas at Austin, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Austin, Texas 78723, United States.,Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Dell Pediatric Research Institute, Depts of Pediatrics, of Chemistry, and of Nutrition, University of Texas at Austin, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Austin, Texas 78723, United States.,Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Dell Pediatric Research Institute, Depts of Pediatrics, of Chemistry, and of Nutrition, University of Texas at Austin, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Austin, Texas 78723, United States
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- Dell Pediatric Research Institute, Depts of Pediatrics, of Chemistry, and of Nutrition, University of Texas at Austin, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Austin, Texas 78723, United States
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- Dell Pediatric Research Institute, Depts of Pediatrics, of Chemistry, and of Nutrition, University of Texas at Austin, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Austin, Texas 78723, United States.,College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan Province 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Dell Pediatric Research Institute, Depts of Pediatrics, of Chemistry, and of Nutrition, University of Texas at Austin, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Austin, Texas 78723, United States
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- Dell Pediatric Research Institute, Depts of Pediatrics, of Chemistry, and of Nutrition, University of Texas at Austin, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Austin, Texas 78723, United States.,Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States.,Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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Wang HYJ, Hsu FF. Revelation of Acyl Double Bond Positions on Fatty Acyl Coenzyme A Esters by MALDI/TOF Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 31:1047-1057. [PMID: 32167298 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.9b00139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Fatty acyl coenzyme A esters (FA-CoAs) are important crossroad intermediates in lipid catabolism and anabolism, and the structures are complicated. Several mass spectrometric approaches have been previously described to elucidate their structures. However, a direct mass spectrometric approach toward a complete identification of the molecule, including the location of unsaturated bond(s) in the fatty acid chain has not been reported. In this study, we applied a simple MALDI/TOF mass spectrometric method to a near-complete characterization of long-chain FA-CoAs, including the location(s) of the double bond in the fatty acyl chain, and the common structural features that recognize FA-CoAs. Negative ion mass spectra of saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated FA-CoAs were acquired with a MALDI/TOF mass spectrometer using 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid as the matrix and ionized with a laser fluence two folds of the threshold to induce the in-source fragmentation (ISF) of the analytes. The resulting ISF spectra contained fragment ions arising from specific cleavages of the C-C bond immediate adjacent to the acyl double-bond. This structural feature affords locating the double-bond position(s) of the fatty acyl substituent. Thereby, positional isomer such as 18:3(n - 3) and 18:3(n - 6) FA-CoA can be differentiated without applying tandem mass spectrometry.
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- Hay-Yan J Wang
- Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan
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- Mass Spectrometry Resource, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Washington University School of Medicine Box 8127, 660 S Euclid Ave., St. Louis, Missouri 63110, United States
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Makarieva TN, Ivanchina NV, Stonik VA. Application of Oxidative and Reductive Transformations in the Structure Determination of Marine Natural Products. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2020; 83:1314-1333. [PMID: 32091208 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.9b01020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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This review highlights the application of oxidative and reductive chemical transformations in the structure determination of complex marine natural products, including their absolute configurations. Workability of the Baeyer-Villiger reaction, ozonolysis, periodate oxidation, hydrogenolysis, and reductive amination, as well as other related chemical transformations, are discussed.
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- Tatyana N Makarieva
- G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Pr. 100 let, Vladivostoku, 159, Russia
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- G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Pr. 100 let, Vladivostoku, 159, Russia
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- G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Pr. 100 let, Vladivostoku, 159, Russia
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Klein DR, Blevins MS, Macias LA, Douglass MV, Trent MS, Brodbelt JS. Localization of Double Bonds in Bacterial Glycerophospholipids Using 193 nm Ultraviolet Photodissociation in the Negative Mode. Anal Chem 2020; 92:5986-5993. [PMID: 32212719 PMCID: PMC7385702 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The need for detailed structural characterization of glycerophospholipids (GPLs) for many types of biologically motivated applications has led to the development of novel mass spectrometry-based methodologies that utilize alternative ion activation methods. Ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) has shown great utility for localizing sites of unsaturation within acyl chains and to date has predominantly been used for positive mode analysis of GPLs. In the present work, UVPD is used to localize sites of unsaturation in GPL anions. Similar to UVPD mass spectra of GPL cations, UVPD of deprotonated or formate-adducted GPLs yields diagnostic fragment ions spaced 24 Da apart. This method was integrated into a liquid chromatography workflow and used to evaluate profiles of sites of unsaturation of lipids in Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii). When assigning sites of unsaturation, E. coli was found to contain all unsaturation elements at the same position relative to the terminal methyl carbon of the acyl chain; the first carbon participating in a site of unsaturation was consistently seven carbons along the acyl chain when counting carbons from the terminal methyl carbon. GPLs from A. baumannii exhibited more variability in locations of unsaturation. For GPLs containing sites of unsaturation in both acyl chains, an MS3 method was devised to assign sites to specific acyl chains.
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- Dustin R Klein
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
- Department of Microbiology, The University of Georgia, College of Arts and Sciences, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Franklin ET, Shields SWJ, Manthorpe JM, Smith JC, Xia Y, McLuckey SA. Coupling Headgroup and Alkene Specific Solution Modifications with Gas-Phase Ion/Ion Reactions for Sensitive Glycerophospholipid Identification and Characterization. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 31:938-945. [PMID: 32233382 PMCID: PMC7153167 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.0c00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Shotgun lipidomics provides sensitive and fast lipid identification without the need for chromatographic separation. Challenges faced by shotgun analysis of glycerophospholipids (GPs) include the lack of signal uniformity across GP classes and the inability to determine the carbon-carbon double bond (C═C) location within the fatty acyl chains of an unsaturated species. Two distinct derivatization strategies were employed to both enhance the ionization of GPs, via trimethylation enhancement using 13C-diazomethane (13C-TrEnDi), as well as determine location of double bonds within fatty acyl chains, employing an in-solution photochemical reaction with acetone (via the Paternò-Büchi reaction). The modified GPs were then subjected to positive ion mode ionization via electrospray ionization, producing uniform ionization efficiencies for different classes of GP species. The GPs were charge inverted via gas-phase ion/ion reactions and sequentially fragmented using ion trap collision-induced dissociation (CID). The CID of the species led to fragmentation producing diagnostic ions indicative of C═C bond location. The approach enabled enhanced ionization and the identification of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine species at the C═C level in a bovine lipid extract.
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- Elissia T. Franklin
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 47907-2084, West Lafayette, IN, United States 47907-2084
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 47907-2084, West Lafayette, IN, United States 47907-2084
- Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Mengminwei Technical Building, Beijing, Haidian, China, 100084
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 47907-2084, West Lafayette, IN, United States 47907-2084
- Address reprint requests to Scott A. McLuckley, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 47907-2084, West Lafayette, IN, United States 47907-2084,
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Recent applications of mass spectrometry in bacterial lipidomics. Anal Bioanal Chem 2020; 412:5935-5943. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02541-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2020] [Revised: 02/14/2020] [Accepted: 02/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Bouza M, Li Y, Wu C, Guo H, Wang ZL, Fernández FM. Large-Area Triboelectric Nanogenerator Mass Spectrometry: Expanded Coverage, Double-Bond Pinpointing, and Supercharging. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 31:727-734. [PMID: 31971789 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.0c00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Efficient ionization is a necessary condition for mass spectrometric analysis, but many compounds fail to ionize well enough to yield sufficient detection limits. Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) coupled to nanoelectrospray ionization (nanoESI) mass spectrometry (MS) are a highly effective approach to high sensitivity MS analysis. Here, we report on new, large-area TENG that constructively leverage the relationship between electrode size, created charges, and open-circuit voltage, leading to wider chemical coverage. Large-area TENG were found to also promote electrospray gas-phase oxidation reactions that enabled double bond position pinpointing for unsaturated lipids and species-specific lipid quantitation. Furthermore, large-area TENG MS of proteins was observed to yield higher charge state distributions (i.e., supercharging) without the need for high surface tension additives.
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- Marcos Bouza
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
- NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
- Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
- NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Ekelöf M, Dodds J, Khodjaniyazova S, Garrard KP, Baker ES, Muddiman DC. Coupling IR-MALDESI with Drift Tube Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry for High-Throughput Screening and Imaging Applications. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 31:642-650. [PMID: 31971795 PMCID: PMC7263366 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.9b00081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Because of its high degree of selectivity and chemical resolution, mass spectrometry (MS) is rapidly becoming the analytical method of choice for high-throughput evaluations and clinical diagnostics. While advances in MS resolving power have increased by an order of magnitude over the past decade, advances in sample introduction are still needed for high-throughput screening applications where the time frame of chromatographic separation would limit the duty cycle. Infrared matrix-assisted laser desorption electrospray ionization (IR-MALDESI) is an ambient ionization source that has been shown to be applicable for direct analyses and mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) of complex biological samples in a high-throughput manner. To increase a range of detectable features in IR-MALDESI experiments, we integrated the home-built ion source with a commercially available drift tube ion mobility spectrometer-mass spectrometer (IMS-MS) and analyzed small polar molecules, lipids, carbohydrates, and intact proteins. We also describe in detail how the pulsed ionization source was synchronized with IMS-MS.
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- Måns Ekelöf
- FTMS Laboratory for Human Health Research, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- FTMS Laboratory for Human Health Research, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- FTMS Laboratory for Human Health Research, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- FTMS Laboratory for Human Health Research, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
- Precision Engineering Consortium, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27606, United States
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- FTMS Laboratory for Human Health Research, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- FTMS Laboratory for Human Health Research, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
- Molecular Education, Technology, and Research Innovation Center (METRIC), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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Lipid metabolism of leukocytes in the unstimulated and activated states. Anal Bioanal Chem 2020; 412:2353-2363. [PMID: 32055910 PMCID: PMC7118052 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02460-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2019] [Revised: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Lipidomics has emerged as a powerful technique to study cellular lipid metabolism. As the lipidome contains numerous isomeric and isobaric species resulting in a significant overlap between different lipid classes, cutting-edge analytical technology is necessary for a comprehensive analysis of lipid metabolism. Just recently, differential mobility spectrometry (DMS) has evolved as such a technology, helping to overcome several analytical challenges. We here set out to apply DMS and the Lipidyzer™ platform to obtain a comprehensive overview of leukocyte-related lipid metabolism in the resting and activated states. First, we tested the linearity and repeatability of the platform by using HL60 cells. We obtained good linearities for most of the thirteen analyzed lipid classes (correlation coefficient > 0.95), and good repeatability (%CV < 15). By comparing the lipidome of neutrophils (PMNs), monocytes (CD14+), and lymphocytes (CD4+), we shed light on leukocyte-specific lipid patterns as well as lipidomic changes occurring through differential stimulation. For example, at the resting state, PMNs proved to contain higher amounts of triacylglycerides compared to CD4+ and CD14+ cells. On the other hand, CD4+ and CD14+ cells contained higher levels of phospholipids and ceramides. Upon stimulation, diacylglycerides, hexosylceramides, phosphatidylcholines, phosphoethanolamines, and lysophosphoethanolamines were upregulated in CD4+ cells and PMNs, whereas CD14+ cells did not show significant changes. By exploring the fatty acid content of the significantly upregulated lipid classes, we mainly found increased concentrations of very long and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Our results indicate the usefulness of the Lipidyzer™ platform for studying cellular lipid metabolism. Its application allowed us to explore the lipidome of leukocytes. Graphical abstract ![]()
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Maddox SW, Fraser Caris RH, Baker KL, Burkus-Matesevac A, Peverati R, Chouinard CD. Ozone-Induced Cleavage of Endocyclic C═C Double Bonds within Steroid Epimers Produces Unique Gas-Phase Conformations. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 31:411-417. [PMID: 32031388 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.9b00058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Herein we demonstrate the first application of ozone-induced cleavage of endocyclic C═C double bonds for improved steroid isomer separation using ion mobility-mass spectrometry. Steroids represent a challenging biomolecular class for ion mobility (IM) separations due to their structural rigidity and subtle stereochemical differences. In this work, we compare the effects of ozonolysis on the relative mobilities of a model stereoisomer pair, testosterone and epitestosterone. A solution-phase ozonolysis approach is used due to its simplicity, relatively low cost, and potential for rapid, online analysis. Despite the presence of solvent-based addition products, we observe that these steroids undergo an ozone-based cleavage resulting in unique, stable gas-phase conformations. The resulting resolution between testosterone and epitestosterone, with collision cross section values of 176.6 and 193.3 Å2, respectively, demonstrates a significant improvement in comparison with previous IM-based approaches. The significantly smaller conformation observed for epitestosterone is stabilized by a three-point interaction between the oxygen-containing functional groups and a sodium ion; this same conformation cannot be sterically achieved by testosterone. Identification of this specific structural difference is strengthened by experimental results showing the disappearance of this conformation following in-source water loss, which eliminates the potential for that three-point interaction. Computational modeling of the lowest energy gas-phase structures for these ozone products corroborates the experimental results. In conclusion, this approach provides tremendous potential as a rapid IM separation method for steroid isomers and other endocyclic C═C double bond containing molecules.
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- Samuel W Maddox
- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences , Florida Institute of Technology , Melbourne , Florida 32901 , United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences , Florida Institute of Technology , Melbourne , Florida 32901 , United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences , Florida Institute of Technology , Melbourne , Florida 32901 , United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences , Florida Institute of Technology , Melbourne , Florida 32901 , United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences , Florida Institute of Technology , Melbourne , Florida 32901 , United States
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- Chemistry Program, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences , Florida Institute of Technology , Melbourne , Florida 32901 , United States
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Evaluation of ultraviolet photodissociation tandem mass spectrometry for the structural assignment of unsaturated fatty acid double bond positional isomers. Anal Bioanal Chem 2020; 412:2339-2351. [PMID: 32006064 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02446-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Fatty acids are a major source of structural diversity within the lipidome due to variations in their acyl chain lengths, branching, and cyclization, as well as the number, position, and stereochemistry of double bonds within their mono- and poly-unsaturated species. Here, the utility of 193 nm UltraViolet PhotoDissociation tandem mass spectrometry (UVPD-MS/MS) has been evaluated for the detailed structural characterization of a series of unsaturated fatty acid lipid species. UVPD-MS/MS of unsaturated fatty acids is shown to yield pairs of unique diagnostic product ions resulting from cleavages adjacent to their C=C double bonds, enabling unambiguous localization of the site(s) of unsaturation within these lipids. The effect of several experimental variables on the observed fragmentation behaviour and UVPD-MS/MS efficiency, including the position and number of double bonds, the effect of conjugated versus non-conjugated double bonds, the number of laser pulses, and the influence of alkali metal cations (Li, Na, K) as the ionizing adducts, has been evaluated. Importantly, the abundance of the diagnostic ions is shown to enable relative quantitation of mixtures of fatty acid isomers across a range of molar ratios. Finally, the practical application of 193 nm UVPD-MS/MS is demonstrated via characterization of changes in the ratios of fatty acid double bond positional isomers in isogenic colorectal cancer cell lines. This study therefore demonstrates the practicality of UVPD-MS/MS for the structural characterization of fatty acid isomers in lipidome analysis workflows.
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Morris CB, Poland JC, May JC, McLean JA. Fundamentals of Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Biomolecules. Methods Mol Biol 2020; 2084:1-31. [PMID: 31729651 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0030-6_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) combines complementary size- and mass-selective separations into a single analytical platform. This chapter provides context for both the instrumental arrangements and key application areas that are commonly encountered in bioanalytical settings. New advances in these high-throughput strategies are described with description of complementary informatics tools to effectively utilize these data-intensive measurements. Rapid separations such as these are especially important in systems, synthetic, and chemical biology in which many small molecules are transient and correspond to various biological classes for integrated omics measurements. This chapter highlights the fundamentals of IM-MS and its applications toward biomolecular separations and discusses methods currently being used in the fields of proteomics, lipidomics, and metabolomics.
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- Caleb B Morris
- Department of Chemistry, Center for Innovative Technology, Institute of Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.,Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Innovative Technology, Institute of Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.,Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Innovative Technology, Institute of Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.,Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Innovative Technology, Institute of Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. .,Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
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