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ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2018

Recent advances in lipid separations and structural elucidation using mass spectrometry combined with ion mobility spectrometry, ion-molecule reactions and fragmentation approaches.

Xueyun Zheng, Richard D Smith, Erin S Baker

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Review in Current opinion in chemical biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Isomer-Resolved Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Acidic Phospholipids.Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Xueyun ZhengBiological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, United States.
Richard D SmithBiological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, United States.
Erin S BakerBiological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, United States. Electronic address: erin.baker@pnnl.gov.

Funding

Single cell, multi-parametric high throughput platform to classify endocrine disruptor potential of mixturesP42ES027704 · NIEHS · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · PI Weihsueh A Chiu · 2017 to 2026
$21.2M
Platform Providing Increased Throughput, Sensitivity and Specificity for MetaboloR01ES022190 · NIEHS · BATTELLE PACIFIC NORTHWEST LABORATORIES · PI BAKER, ERIN S · 2012 to 2016
$2.2M
NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES027704NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES022190
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipids are a vital class of molecules that play important and varied roles in biological processes, however, fully understanding these roles is extremely difficult due to the immense number and diversity of possible lipid species. While recent advances in chromatography and high resolution mass spectrometry have greatly progressed knowledge about distinct lipid species and functions, effectively separating many lipids still remains problematic. Isomeric lipids have made lipid characterization especially difficult and occur due to subclasses having the same chemical composition, or species having multiple acyl chain connectivities (sn-1, sn-2, or sn-3), double bond positions and orientations (cis or trans), and functional group stereochemistries (R versus S). To aid in isomer characterization, ion mobility spectrometry separations, ion-molecule reactions and fragmentation techniques have increasingly been added to lipid analysis workflows. In this manuscript, we review the current state of these approaches and their capabilities for improving the identification of lipid species.

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Molecular StructureIon Mobility SpectrometryIsomerismLipidsMass SpectrometryLipids

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PMID29223060
PMCPMC5828972

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