Optimized Lipidomics Extraction of Sphingosine and Sphinganine from Optic Nerve for Signaling Studies

Overview

Journal Methods Mol Biol

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2024 Jul 8

PMID 38977585

Authors

Alexa Jauregui

Emily J Neag

Amr Almobayed

Alexandra Lens

Sanjoy K Bhattacharya

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Abstract

Interconvertible sphingolipid metabolites represent germane constituents of eukaryotic membranes and are vital in the regulation of cellular homeostasis, proliferation, survival, and induction of autophagy. This protocol describes a step-by-step method for extractions of sphingosine and sphinganine from mammalian tissue samples, particularly from the murine optic nerve. These lipids are partitioned into a binary mixture of chloroform and methanol in a modified Bligh and Dyer method. This is followed with reverse phase ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography fractionation with a C18+ column and subsequent tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS-MS) analysis of the biological abundance. These free sphingoid bases dissociate to form structurally distinctive carbocation product ions that can be confirmed with annotations of lipidomic databases or in-house fragmentation software.

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