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Structural Elucidation of Ether Glycerophospholipids Using Gas-Phase Ion/Ion Charge Inversion Chemistry.


ABSTRACT: Ether lipids represent a unique subclass of glycerophospholipid (GPL) that possesses a 1-O-alkyl (i.e., plasmanyl subclass) or a 1-O-alk-1'-enyl (i.e., plasmenyl subclass) group linked at the sn-1 position of the glycerol backbone. As changes in ether GPL composition and abundance are associated with numerous human pathologies, analytical strategies capable of providing high-level structural detail are desirable. While mass spectrometry (MS) has emerged as a prominent tool for lipid structural elucidation in biological extracts, distinctions between the various isomeric forms of ether-linked GPLs have remained a significant challenge for tandem MS, principally due to similarities in the conventional tandem mass spectra obtained from the two ether-linked subclasses. To distinguish plasmanyl and plasmenyl GPLs, a multistage (i.e., MSn where n = 3 or 4) mass spectrometric approach reliant on low-energy collision-induced dissociation (CID) is required. While this method facilitates assignment of the sn-1 bond type (i.e., 1-O-alkyl versus 1-O-alk-1'-enyl), a composite distribution of isomers is left unresolved, as carbon-carbon double-bond (C=C) positions cannot be localized in the sn-2 fatty acyl substituent. In this study, we combine a systematic MSn approach with two unique gas-phase charge inversion ion/ion chemistries to elucidate ether GPL structures with high-level detail. Ultimately, we assign both the sn-1 bond type and sites of unsaturation in the sn-2 fatty acyl substituent using an entirely gas-phase MS-based workflow. Application of this workflow to human blood plasma extract permitted isomeric resolution and in-depth structural identification of major and, in some cases, minor isomeric contributors to ether GPLs that have been previously unresolved when examined via conventional methods.

SUBMITTER: Randolph CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7328668 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Structural Elucidation of Ether Glycerophospholipids Using Gas-Phase Ion/Ion Charge Inversion Chemistry.

Randolph Caitlin E CE   Shenault De'Shovon M DM   Blanksby Stephen J SJ   McLuckey Scott A SA  

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 20200414 5


Ether lipids represent a unique subclass of glycerophospholipid (GPL) that possesses a 1-<i>O</i>-alkyl (i.e., plasmanyl subclass) or a 1-<i>O</i>-alk-1'-enyl (i.e., plasmenyl subclass) group linked at the <i>sn</i>-1 position of the glycerol backbone. As changes in ether GPL composition and abundance are associated with numerous human pathologies, analytical strategies capable of providing high-level structural detail are desirable. While mass spectrometry (MS) has emerged as a prominent tool f  ...[more]

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