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Title: Analyzing Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data of 13C-Labeled Phospholipids in Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense (Pennycress) Embryos

Abstract

The combination of 13C-isotopic labeling and mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) offers an approach to analyze metabolic flux in situ. However, combining isotopic labeling and MSI presents technical challenges ranging from sample preparation, label incorporation, data collection, and analysis. Isotopic labeling and MSI individually create large, complex data sets, and this is compounded when both methods are combined. Therefore, analyzing isotopically labeled MSI data requires streamlined procedures to support biologically meaningful interpretations. Using currently available software and techniques, here we describe a workflow to analyze 13C-labeled isotopologues of the membrane lipid and storage oil lipid intermediate-phosphatidylcholine (PC). Our results with embryos of the oilseed crops, Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense (pennycress), demonstrated greater 13C-isotopic labeling in the cotyledons of developing embryos compared with the embryonic axis. Greater isotopic enrichment in PC molecular species with more saturated and longer chain fatty acids suggest different flux patterns related to fatty acid desaturation and elongation pathways. The ability to evaluate MSI data of isotopically labeled plant embryos will facilitate the potential to investigate spatial aspects of metabolic flux in situ.

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Research Org.:
Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Institutes of Health (NSF); US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
OSTI Identifier:
1769213
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1853579
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0020325; U01 CA235508; IOS-1829365; DBI-1827534; DBI-1427621
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Metabolites
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Metabolites Journal Volume: 11 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2218-1989
Publisher:
MDPI AG
Country of Publication:
Switzerland
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; mass spectrometry imaging; MALDI (matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization); metabolomics; lipidomics; 13C-labeling; oilseed

Citation Formats

Romsdahl, Trevor B., Kambhampati, Shrikaar, Koley, Somnath, Yadav, Umesh P., Alonso, Ana Paula, Allen, Doug K., and Chapman, Kent D. Analyzing Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data of 13C-Labeled Phospholipids in Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense (Pennycress) Embryos. Switzerland: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.3390/metabo11030148.
Romsdahl, Trevor B., Kambhampati, Shrikaar, Koley, Somnath, Yadav, Umesh P., Alonso, Ana Paula, Allen, Doug K., & Chapman, Kent D. Analyzing Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data of 13C-Labeled Phospholipids in Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense (Pennycress) Embryos. Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11030148
Romsdahl, Trevor B., Kambhampati, Shrikaar, Koley, Somnath, Yadav, Umesh P., Alonso, Ana Paula, Allen, Doug K., and Chapman, Kent D. Thu . "Analyzing Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data of 13C-Labeled Phospholipids in Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense (Pennycress) Embryos". Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11030148.
@article{osti_1769213,
title = {Analyzing Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data of 13C-Labeled Phospholipids in Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense (Pennycress) Embryos},
author = {Romsdahl, Trevor B. and Kambhampati, Shrikaar and Koley, Somnath and Yadav, Umesh P. and Alonso, Ana Paula and Allen, Doug K. and Chapman, Kent D.},
abstractNote = {The combination of 13C-isotopic labeling and mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) offers an approach to analyze metabolic flux in situ. However, combining isotopic labeling and MSI presents technical challenges ranging from sample preparation, label incorporation, data collection, and analysis. Isotopic labeling and MSI individually create large, complex data sets, and this is compounded when both methods are combined. Therefore, analyzing isotopically labeled MSI data requires streamlined procedures to support biologically meaningful interpretations. Using currently available software and techniques, here we describe a workflow to analyze 13C-labeled isotopologues of the membrane lipid and storage oil lipid intermediate-phosphatidylcholine (PC). Our results with embryos of the oilseed crops, Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense (pennycress), demonstrated greater 13C-isotopic labeling in the cotyledons of developing embryos compared with the embryonic axis. Greater isotopic enrichment in PC molecular species with more saturated and longer chain fatty acids suggest different flux patterns related to fatty acid desaturation and elongation pathways. The ability to evaluate MSI data of isotopically labeled plant embryos will facilitate the potential to investigate spatial aspects of metabolic flux in situ.},
doi = {10.3390/metabo11030148},
journal = {Metabolites},
number = 3,
volume = 11,
place = {Switzerland},
year = {Thu Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Thu Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}

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