title: Multidimensional mass spectrometry-based shotgun lipidomics analysis of vinyl ether diglycerides.
abstract: Diglycerides play a central role in lipid metabolism and signaling in mammalian cells. Although diacylglycerol molecular species comprise the majority of cellular diglycerides that are commonly measured using a variety of approaches, identification of extremely low abundance vinyl ether diglycerides has remained challenging. In this work, representative molecular species from the three diglyceride subclasses (diacyl, vinyl ether, and alkyl ether diglycerides; hereafter referred to as diradylglycerols) were interrogated by mass spectrometric analysis. Product ion mass spectra of the synthesized diradylglycerols with varied chain lengths and degrees of unsaturation demonstrated diagnostic fragmentation patterns indicative of each subclass. Multidimensional mass spectrometry-based shotgun lipidomics (MDMS-SL) analysis of mouse brain and heart lipid extracts were performed using the identified informative signature product ions. Through an array of tandem mass spectrometric analyses utilizing the orthogonal characteristics of neutral loss scanning and precursor ion scanning, the differential fragmentation of each subclass was exploited for high-yield structural analyses. Although molecular ion mass spectra readily identified diacylglycerol molecular species directly from the hexane fractions of tissue extracts enriched in nonpolar lipids, molecular ion peaks corresponding to ether-linked diglycerides were not observable. The power of MDMS-SL utilizing the tandem mass spectrometric array analysis was demonstrated by identification and profiling of individual molecular species of vinyl ether diglycerides in mouse brain and heart from their undetectable molecular ion peaks during MS(1) analysis. Collectively, this technology enabled the identification and profiling of previously inaccessible vinyl ether diglyceride molecular species in mammalian tissues directly from extracts of biologic tissues.
authors.affiliation: Division of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
authors.forename: Kui
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Christopher M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Jenkins
authors.forename: Beverly
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dilthey
authors.forename: Richard W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D004075:Diglycerides / Q000032:analysis*; D008297:Male; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D009206:Myocardium / Q000737:chemistry*; D014753:Vinyl Compounds / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D004075:Diglycerides; D014753:Vinyl Compounds; C100195:vinyl ether; C035561:diarachidonyl diglyceride
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