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Simultaneous quantitative determination method for sphingolipid metabolites by liquid chromatography/ionspray ionization tandem mass spectrometry

  • Anal Biochem. 1997 Jan 15;244(2):291-300. doi: 10.1006/abio.1996.9891.
N Mano 1 Y Oda K Yamada N Asakawa K Katayama
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  • 1 Section of Analytical Chemistry, Tsukuba Research Laboratories, Eisar Company Ltd., Ibaraki, Japan.
Abstract

Sphingolipid metabolites ceramide, sphingomyelin, sphingosine, psycosine, sphingosylphosphorylcholine, and dimethylsphingosine were separated and simulataneously quantitated by liquid chromatography/ionspray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/ MS). The use of glassware throughout minimized losses due to adsorption and the pretreatment of this method consisted of simple liquid-liquid extraction procedure with a mixture of chloroform and methanol. After separation on a short C18 silica column eluted in a gradient mode, the metabolites were detected by MS/ MS. This assay allows simultaneously quantification of these metabolites over a range of at least 0.1 to 100 ng/ 10(6) cells. The LC/MS/MS analyses took 10 to 15 min per sample and we could examine up to 50 samples per day. We also detected endogenous sphingosine 1-phosphate in HL-60 cells. The utility of the method was demonstrated by examining changes in metabolites levels in HL-60 cells after treatment with sphingomyelinase. It was found that sphingomyelinase from Bacillus cereus may have selectivity for acyl chain length.

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