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Title: Workflow for fast lipid tissue screening using LESA-FT-ICR-MS
Lipid screening of biological substrates is an important step during biomarker detection and identification. In this work, a fast workflow is described capable of rapid screening for lipid components from biological tissues at ambient pressure based on liquid microjunction extraction in tandem with nano-electrospray ionization (nESI) with ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry, i.e. , liquid extraction surface analysis (LESA) coupled to Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance (tandem) mass spectrometry (LESA-FT-ICR-MS/MS). Lipid profiles are presented for thin tissue sections of mouse brain (MB) and liver (ML) samples, analyzed in both positive and negative mode by data-dependent acquisition (DDA) tandem FT-ICR-MS/MS. Candidate assignments were based on fragmentation patterns using mostly SimLipid software and accurate mass using mostly the LipidMaps database (average sub-ppm mass error). A typical, single point surface analysis (<1 mm spatial sampling resolution) lasted less than 15 minutes and resulted in the assignment of (unique and mulitple) lipid identifications of ∼190 (MB) and ∼590 (ML) m / z values. Despite the biological complexity, this led to unique identifications of distinct lipid molecules (sub-ppm mass error) from 38 different lipid classes, corresponding to 10–30% of the lipid m / z identifications.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1654274
NSF-PAR ID:
10128659
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Analytical Methods
Volume:
11
Issue:
18
ISSN:
1759-9660
Page Range / eLocation ID:
2385 to 2395
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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