Abstract
Lipids play an important role in the energy storage, cellular signaling, and pathophysiology of diseases such as cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, infections, and diabetes. Due to high importance of diverse lipid classes in human health and disease, manipulating lipid abundance and composition is an important target for metabolic engineering. The extreme structural diversity of lipids in real biological samples is challenging for analytical techniques due to large difference in physicochemical properties of individual lipid species. This chapter describes lipidomic analysis of large sample sets requiring reliable and robust methodology. Rapid and robust methods facilitate the support of longitudinal studies allowing the transfer of methodology between laboratories. We describe a high-throughput reversed-phase LC-MS methodology using Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLCĀ®) with charged surface hybrid technology and accurate mass detection for high-throughput non-targeted lipidomics. The methodology showed excellent specificity, robustness, and reproducibility for over 100 LC-MS injections.
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Isaac, G., Shulaev, V., Plumb, R.S. (2022). Non-targeted Lipidomics Using a Robust and Reproducible Lipid Separation Using UPLC with Charged Surface Hybrid Technology and High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry. In: Shulaev, V. (eds) Plant Metabolic Engineering. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2396. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1822-6_13
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