title: On the future of mass-spectrometry-based lipidomics.
abstract: Lipids have highly diverse functions that go beyond cellular membrane structure and energy storage. One of the great challenges in lipid research will be to understand how the enormous complexity of lipid homeostasis is maintained. Genetic approaches combined with mass spectrometry-based lipidomics will help to elucidate how cells create and maintain their nonrandom lipid distribution within tissues, cells, organelles and lipid bilayers. Lipid homeostasis is crucial for many cellular processes and we are currently only beginning to understand the specific functions of lipids and the local environment that they create.
authors: Department of Biochemistry, NCCR Chemical Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. ursula.loizides-mangold@unige.ch
authors: Ursula
authors: U
authors: Loizides-Mangold
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D006801:Humans; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D008055:Lipids / Q000737:chemistry; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008563:Membrane Lipids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways; D055432:Metabolomics
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids; D008563:Membrane Lipids