title: Positive and negative tandem mass spectrometric fingerprints of lipids from the halophilic Archaea Haloarcula marismortui.
abstract: Lipids from the extremely halophilic Archaea, Haloarcula marismortui, contain abundant phytanyl diether phospholipids, namely archaetidic acid (AA), archaetidylglycerol (AG), archaetidylglycerosulfate (AGS), with mainly archaetidylglycerophosphate methyl ester (AGP-Me). These were accompanied by a triglycosyl archaeol (TGA), lacking characteristic sulfate groups. Tandem-mass spectrometry was employed to provide fingerprints for identifying these known lipids, as well as small amounts of unsaturated phospholipids. These contained 3 and 6 double bonds in their archaeol moiety, suggested by negative tandem-MS of intact phospholipids, as indicated by differences between their pseudo-molecular ion and specific fragment ions designated as pi(2). The core ether lipids were confirmed by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) as 2,3-di-O-phytanyl-sn-glycerol (C20, C20), which gave rise to a precursor-ion at m/z 660 [M+Li](+), and its fragment ion at m/z 379 [M+Li](+), consistent with mono-O-phytanyl-glycerol. Furthermore, lithiated ions at m/z 654 (MS(1)), 379 (MS(2)) and m/z 648 (MS(1)), 373 (MS(2)), combined with (1)H/(13)C NMR chemical shifts at delta 5.31-121.6 (C2/2'-H2/2'), 5.08-124.9 (C6/6'-H6/6') and 5.10-126.0 (10/10'-H10/10') confirmed the presence of unsaturated homologs of archaeol. We carried out a comprehensive study on the lipids present in cells of H. marismortui. We used positive and negative ESI-MS with tandem-MS, which served as a fingerprint analysis for identifying the majority of component lipids.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba-PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Lauro M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: de Souza
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Müller-Santos
authors.forename: Marcello
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iacomini
authors.forename: Philip A J
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Gorin
authors.forename: Guilherme L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Sassaki
mesh_terms: D004987:Ethers / Q000737:chemistry; D005995:Glyceryl Ethers / Q000032:analysis*; D019614:Haloarcula marismortui / Q000737:chemistry*; D008055:Lipids / Q000032:analysis*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000032:analysis*; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / Q000379:methods; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004987:Ethers; D005995:Glyceryl Ethers; D008055:Lipids; D010743:Phospholipids; C094417:archaeol lipid