Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 412, Issue 27, Pages 7373-7380Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02910-3
Keywords
Lipidomics; Mass spectrometry; Plasma; Reference materials; Analytical chemistry; Quality control
Funding
- University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine
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The unavailability of appropriate quality assurance/quality control materials in many lipidomics applications poses a significant challenge for lipidomics research. It is recommended that samples with certified values and/or consensus estimates, such as NIST SRM 1950-Metabolites in Frozen Human Plasma, be implemented in routine analyses to enable community-wide comparisons of lipidomics results and analytical workflows. Herein, we applied a nontargeted lipidomics method for the analysis of a new human plasma reference material suite developed by NIST (hypertriglyceridemic, diabetic, and African-American plasma pools), in addition to SRM 1950. We identified specific lipidomics fingerprints associated with each sample type, including lauric acid-containing lipids and elevated triacylglycerol levels in hypertriglyceridemic plasma, palmitoleic acid-containing lipids in diabetic plasma, and oxidized fatty acid-containing phospholipids in African-American plasma. This work highlights the importance of developing and profiling application-specific reference materials, while establishing reference data that may be used for system suitability and/or quality control metrics. Graphical abstract
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