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ArticleAnalytical chemistry2013

Single-cell lipidomics: characterizing and imaging lipids on the surface of individual Aplysia californica neurons with cluster secondary ion mass spectrometry.

Melissa K Passarelli, Andrew G Ewing, Nicholas Winograd

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Article in Analytical chemistry, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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3 authors.

Melissa K PassarelliDepartment of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States. melissa.passarelli@gmail.com
Andrew G Ewing
Nicholas Winograd

Funding

STEROL LIPIDSU54GM069338 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI DENNIS, EDWARD A · 2003 to 2013
$72.2M
MOLECULAR IMAGING OF BIOMATERIALS - SINGLE CELLSR01EB002016 · NIBIB · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK · PI WINOGRAD, NICHOLAS · 2003 to 2012
$4.1M
NIBIB NIH HHS 2R01 EB002016-18NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB002016NIGMS NIH HHS GM069338-07NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM069338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurons isolated from Aplysia californica , an organism with a well-defined neural network, were imaged with secondary ion mass spectrometry, C(60)-SIMS. A major lipid component of the neuronal membrane was identified as 1-hexadecyl-2-octadecenoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine [PC(16:0e/18:1)] using tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). The assignment was made directly off the sample surface using a C(60)-QSTAR instrument, a prototype instrument that combines an ion source with a commercial electrospray ionization/matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (ESI/MALDI) mass spectrometer. Normal phase liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (NP-LC-MS) was used to confirm the assignment. Cholesterol and vitamin E were also identified with in situ tandem MS analyses that were compared to reference spectra obtained from purified compounds. In order to improve sensitivity on the single-cell level, the tandem MS spectrum of vitamin E reference material was used to extract and compile all the vitamin E related peaks from the cell image. The mass spectrometry images reveal heterogeneous distributions of intact lipid species, PC(16:0e/18:1), vitamin E, and cholesterol on the surface of a single neuron. The ability to detect these molecules and determine their relative distribution on the single-cell level shows that the C(60)-QSTAR is a potential platform for studying important biochemical processes, such as neuron degeneration.

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Spectrometry, Mass, Secondary IonAnimalsAplysiaCholesterolLipidsNeuronsPhosphatidylcholinesSpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-IonizationTandem Mass SpectrometryVitamin ECholesterolLipidsPhosphatidylcholinesVitamin E

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PMID23323749
PMCPMC3867296

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