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Current Drug Metabolism

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ISSN (Print): 1389-2002
ISSN (Online): 1875-5453

LC/ESI/MS Analysis of Saturated and Unsaturated Fatty Acids in Rat Intestinal Epithelial Cells

Author(s): Seon Hwa Lee, Caterina Pettinella and Ian A. Blair

Volume 7, Issue 8, 2006

Page: [929 - 937] Pages: 9

DOI: 10.2174/138920006779010584

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Abstract

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) can mediate damage to cellular macromolecules and lipids. Lipid peroxidation is considered to be a major pathway by which ROS can cause tissue damage and alterations in cell membranes. Other factors affecting oxidative damage include the target molecules such as fatty acids, which are readily oxidized by ROS. Thus, lipid peroxidation may depend upon the cellular fatty acid composition. Analysis of saturated fatty acids that are present by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) is difficult because they are poorly ionized under electrospray ionization (ESI) conditions. The separation of short to very long chain saturated and unsaturated fatty acids is also very challenging when LC is employed instead of gas chromatography. The use of trimethylaminoethyl (TMAE) ester iodide derivatization has been shown previously to improve the sensitivities of saturated fatty acids in the ESI mode. A reversed- phase LC method using a diphenyl column was employed to separate 14 fatty acids as their TMAE derivatives. Stable isotope dilution LC/ESI/multiple reaction monitoring/MS methodology was then developed for the quantitative analysis of seven saturated and seven unsaturated forms of short (C14) to very long (C26) chain fatty acids as their TMAE ester iodide derivatives. This methodology has allowed the analysis of fatty acid composition from parental rat intestinal epithelial cell and rat intestinal epithelial cells transfected with cyclooxygenase-2, a model system of oxidative stress.

Keywords: Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), reactive oxygen species (ROS), Liquid Chromatography, trimethylaminoethyl (TMAE), Fatty Acids derivatives


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