TY - JOUR
T1 - Location of carbon-carbon double bonds in unsaturated lipids using microdroplet mass spectrometry
AU - Luo, Kai
AU - Chen, Hao
AU - Zare, Richard N.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Scientific Research Startup Foundation (Grant No.: IDH1615113) of Fudan University and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 22072122 and 21974027).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Royal Society of Chemistry.
PY - 2021/4/21
Y1 - 2021/4/21
N2 - An aqueous solution containing unsaturated fatty acids (100 μM) or lipids (50 μg mL-1) and chloroauric acid (HAuCl4, 10 μM) is electrosprayed (-4.5 kV for unsaturated fatty acids and +4.0 kV for lipids) from a 50 μm diameter capillary with N2 nebulizing gas (60 psi), and the resulting microdroplets enter a mass spectrometer with a flight distance of 10 mm for chemical analysis. The HAuCl4 oxidizes the CC double bond to cause the formation of an aldehyde group or a hydroxyl group on one side and a carboxyl group on the other (i.e., CHO-R-COOH or HO-R-COOH), allowing the location of the double bond to be identified. This approach was successfully applied to four unsaturated fatty acids [linoleic acid (LA), ricinoleic acid (RA), isooleic acid (IA), and nervonic acid (NA)] and two phospholipids [1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) and L-α-lysophosphatidylcholine (lysoPC)]. A mechanism for this transformation is proposed, which involves epoxidation of the double bond, followed by the formation of the final products. This method has the advantages of being simple and rapid, and requiring a small amount of analyte.
AB - An aqueous solution containing unsaturated fatty acids (100 μM) or lipids (50 μg mL-1) and chloroauric acid (HAuCl4, 10 μM) is electrosprayed (-4.5 kV for unsaturated fatty acids and +4.0 kV for lipids) from a 50 μm diameter capillary with N2 nebulizing gas (60 psi), and the resulting microdroplets enter a mass spectrometer with a flight distance of 10 mm for chemical analysis. The HAuCl4 oxidizes the CC double bond to cause the formation of an aldehyde group or a hydroxyl group on one side and a carboxyl group on the other (i.e., CHO-R-COOH or HO-R-COOH), allowing the location of the double bond to be identified. This approach was successfully applied to four unsaturated fatty acids [linoleic acid (LA), ricinoleic acid (RA), isooleic acid (IA), and nervonic acid (NA)] and two phospholipids [1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) and L-α-lysophosphatidylcholine (lysoPC)]. A mechanism for this transformation is proposed, which involves epoxidation of the double bond, followed by the formation of the final products. This method has the advantages of being simple and rapid, and requiring a small amount of analyte.
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U2 - 10.1039/d0an02396e
DO - 10.1039/d0an02396e
M3 - Article
C2 - 33899059
AN - SCOPUS:85104938242
SN - 0003-2654
VL - 146
SP - 2550
EP - 2558
JO - The Analyst
JF - The Analyst
IS - 8
ER -