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Witting, M. ; Salzer, L. ; Meyer, S.W.* ; Barsch, A.*

Phosphorylated glycosphingolipids are commonly detected in Caenorhabditis elegans lipidomes.

Metabolomics 21:29 (2025)

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INTRODUCTION: The identification of lipids is a cornerstone of lipidomics, and due to the specific characteristics of lipids, it requires dedicated analysis workflows. Identifying novel lipids and lipid species for which no reference spectra are available is tedious and often involves a lot of manual work. Integrating high-resolution mass spectrometry with enhancements from chromatographic and ion mobility separation enables the in-depth investigation of intact lipids. OBJECTIVES: We investigated phosphorylated glycosphingolipids from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a biomedical model organism, and aimed to identify different species from this class of lipids, which have been described in one particular publication only. We checked if these lipids can be detected in lipid extracts of C. elegans. METHODS: We used UHPLC-UHR-TOF-MS and UHPLC-TIMS-TOF-MS in combination with dedicated data analysis to check for the presence of phosphorylated glycosphingolipids. Specifically, candidate features were identified in two datasets using Mass Spec Query Language (MassQL) to search fragmentation data. The additional use of retention time (RT) and collisional cross section (CCS) information allowed to filter false positive annotations. RESULTS: As a result, we detected all previously described phosphorylated glycosphingolipids and novel species as well as their biosynthetic precursors in two different lipidomics datasets. MassQL significantly speeds up the process by saving time that would otherwise be spent on manual data investigations. In total over 20 sphingolipids could be described. CONCLUSION: MassQL allowed us to search for phosphorylated glycosphingolipids and their potential biosynthetic precursors systematically. Using orthogonal information such as RT and CCS helped filter false positive results. With the detection in two different datasets, we demonstrate that these sphingolipids are a general part of the C. elegans lipidome.

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Publication type Article: Journal article

Document type Scientific Article

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Keywords Caenorhabditis Elegans ; Lipid Identification ; Lipidomics ; Massql ; Sphingolipids ; Trapped Ion Mobility; Extraction; Rafts; Repository

ISSN (print) / ISBN 1573-3882

e-ISSN 1573-3890

Journal Metabolomics

Quellenangaben Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Article Number: 29

Publisher Springer

Publishing Place New York, NY

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Reviewing status Peer reviewed

Institute(s) CF Metabolomics & Proteomics (CF-MPC)
Research Unit BioGeoChemistry and Analytics (BGC)

Grants Projekt DEAL