Single-Step Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Glycolipid Constituents as Heptafluorobutyrate Derivatives with a Special Reference to the Lipid Portion
✍ Scribed by Alexandre Pons; Juliana Popa; Jacques Portoukalian; Jacques Bodennec; Dominique Ardail; Ossarath Kol; Maria-Jesus Martin-Martin; Pablo Hueso; Philippe Timmerman; Yves Leroy; Jean-Pierre Zanetta
- Book ID
- 102563941
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Volume
- 284
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-2697
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✦ Synopsis
In a previous work (Zanetta et al. Glycobiology 9, 255-266 (1999)), it was reported that all constituents of gangliosides could be obtained as heptafluorobutyrate derivatives after methanolysis in a single gas chromatography analysis. This report demonstrates that gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry in the electron impact mode allows identification and quantification of long-chain bases and fatty acids without interference from monosaccharides. On the basis of ions specific for families and for individual compounds, sphingosines, sphinganines, and phytosphingosines (including ramified, unsaturated, hydroxylated, and etherified compounds) can be identified. Fatty acid methyl esters, including linear, ramified, unsaturated, and hydroxylated species, are identified and quantified in the same way. Possible extensions of this method to the fatty moiety of other lipids (alkylacylglycerol and dimethyl acetal) are discussed.