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Analysis and Comparison of Mouse and Human Brain Gangliosides via Two-Stage Matching of MS/MS Spectra

Fanran Huang,Laura S. Bailey,Tianqi Gao,Wenjie Jiang,Lei Yu,David A. Bennett,Jinying Zhao,K. Basso,Zhongwu Guo

Published 2022 in ACS Omega

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Glycosphingolipids (GSLs), including gangliosides, are essential components of the cell membrane. Because of their vital biological functions, a facile method for the analysis and comparison of GSLs in biological issues is desired. To this end, a new method for GSL analysis was developed based on two-stage matching of the carbohydrate and glycolipid product ions of experimental and reference MS/MS spectra of GSLs. The applicability of this method to the analysis of gangliosides in biological tissues was verified using human plasma and mouse brains spiked with standards. The method was then used to characterize endogenous gangliosides in mouse and human brains. It was shown that each endogenous ganglioside species had varied lipid forms and that mouse and human brains had different compositions of ganglioside species and lipid forms. Moreover, a 36-carbon ceramide is found to represent the major lipid form for mouse brain gangliosides, while the major lipid form for most human brain gangliosides is a 38-carbon ceramide. This study has verified that the two-stage MS/MS spectral matching method could be used to study gangliosides or GSLs and their lipid forms in complex biological samples, thereby having a broad application.

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