Lithium Hydroxide Hydrolysis Combined with MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometry for Rapid Sphingolipid Detection.
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2020-10-30Journal
Journal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryPublisher
American Chemical SocietyType
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Sphingolipids have diverse structural and bioactive functions that play important roles in many key biological processes. Factors such as low relative abundance, varied structures, and a dynamic concentration range provide a difficult analytical challenge for sphingolipid detection. To further improve mass-spectrometry-based sphingolipid analysis, lithium adduct consolidation was implemented to decrease spectral complexity and combine signal intensities, leading to increased specificity and sensitivity. We report the use of lithium hydroxide as a base in a routine hydrolysis procedure in order to effectively remove common ionization suppressants (such as glycolipids and glycerophospholipids) and introduce a source of lithium into the sample. In conjunction, an optimized MALDI matrix system, featuring 2',4',6'-trihydroxyacetophenone (THAP) is used to facilitate lithium adduct consolidation during the MALDI process. The result is a robust and high-throughput sphingolipid detection scheme, particularly of low-abundance ceramides. Application of our developed workflow includes the detection of differentially expressed liver sphingolipid profiles from a high-fat-induced obesity mouse model. We also demonstrate the method's effectiveness in detecting various sphingolipids in brain and plasma matrices. These results were corroborated with data from UHPLC HR MS/MS and MALDI FT-ICR, verifying the efficacy of the method application. Overall, we demonstrate a high-throughput workflow for sphingolipid analysis in various biological matrices by the use of MALDI TOF and lithium adduct consolidation.Identifier to cite or link to this item
http://hdl.handle.net/10713/14413ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/jasms.0c00322
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