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Author(s): Mohammad K; Jiang H; Titorenko VI;
Metabolomics is a methodology used for the identification and quantification of many low-molecular-weight intermediates and products of metabolism within a cell, tissue, organ, biological fluid, or organism. Metabolomics traditionally focuses on water-solub...
Article GUID: 33491678
Author(s): Mohammad K; Jiang H; Hossain MI; Titorenko VI;
Lipids are structurally diverse amphipathic molecules that are insoluble in water. Lipids are essential contributors to the organization and function of biological membranes, energy storage and production, cellular signaling, vesicular transport of proteins...
Article GUID: 32202524
Author(s): Tabatabaei Shafiei M, Carvajal Gonczi CM, Rahman MS, East A, François J, Darlington PJ
Detecting glycogen in peripheral blood mononuclear cells with periodic acid schiff staining.
J Vis Exp. 2014 Dec 23;(94):
Authors: Tabatabaei Shafiei M, Carvajal Gonczi CM, Rahman MS, East A, François J, Darlington PJ
Abstract
Periodic acid ...
Article GUID: 25548935
Title: | Quantitative Analysis of the Cellular Lipidome of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Using Liquid Chromatography Coupled with Tandem Mass Spectrometry |
Authors: | Mohammad K, Jiang H, Hossain MI, Titorenko VI, |
Link: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32202524/ |
DOI: | 10.3791/60616 |
Category: | J Vis Exp |
PMID: | 32202524 |
Dept Affiliation: | BIOLOGY
1 Department of Biology, Concordia University. 2 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Centre for Biological Applications of Mass Spectrometry, Concordia University. 3 Department of Biology, Concordia University; vladimir.titorenko@concordia.ca. |
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Lipids are structurally diverse amphipathic molecules that are insoluble in water. Lipids are essential contributors to the organization and function of biological membranes, energy storage and production, cellular signaling, vesicular transport of proteins, organelle biogenesis, and regulated cell death. Because the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a unicellular eukaryote amenable to thorough molecular analyses, its use as a model organism helped uncover mechanisms linking lipid metabolism and intracellular transport to complex biological processes within eukaryotic cells. The availability of a versatile analytical method for the robust, sensitive, and accurate quantitative assessment of major classes of lipids within a yeast cell is crucial for getting deep insights into these mechanisms. Here we present a protocol to use liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) for the quantitative analysis of major cellular lipids of S. cerevisiae. The LC-MS/MS method described is versatile and robust. It enables the identification and quantification of numerous species (including different isobaric or isomeric forms) within each of the 10 lipid classes. This method is sensitive and allows identification and quantitation of some lipid species at concentrations as low as 0.2 pmol/µL. The method has been successfully applied to assessing lipidomes of whole yeast cells and their purified organelles. The use of alternative mobile phase additives for electrospray ionization mass spectrometry in this method can increase the efficiency of ionization for some lipid species and can be therefore used to improve their identification and quantitation. |