Positive and negative tandem mass spectrometric fingerprints of lipids from the halophilic Archaea Haloarcula marismortuis⃞
AUTOR(ES)
de Souza, Lauro M.
FONTE
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
RESUMO
Lipids from the extremely halophilic Archaea, Haloarcula marismortui, contain abundant phytanyl diether phospholipids, namely archaetidic acid (AA), archaetidylglycerol (AG), archaetidylglycerosulfate (AGS), with mainly archaetidylglycerophosphate methyl ester (AGP-Me). These were accompanied by a triglycosyl archaeol (TGA), lacking characteristic sulfate groups. Tandem-mass spectrometry was employed to provide fingerprints for identifying these known lipids, as well as small amounts of unsaturated phospholipids. These contained 3 and 6 double bonds in their archaeol moiety, suggested by negative tandem-MS of intact phospholipids, as indicated by differences between their pseudo-molecular ion and specific fragment ions designated as π2. The core ether lipids were confirmed by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) as 2,3-di-O-phytanyl-sn-glycerol (C20, C20), which gave rise to a precursor-ion at m/z 660 [M+Li]+, and its fragment ion at m/z 379 [M+Li]+, consistent with mono-O-phytanyl-glycerol. Furthermore, lithiated ions at m/z 654 (MS1), 379 (MS2) and m/z 648 (MS1), 373 (MS2), combined with 1H/13C NMR chemical shifts at δ 5.31-121.6 (C2/2′-H2/2′), 5.08-124.9 (C6/6′-H6/6′) and 5.10-126.0 (10/10′-H10/10′) confirmed the presence of unsaturated homologs of archaeol. We carried out a comprehensive study on the lipids present in cells of H. marismortui. We used positive and negative ESI-MS with tandem-MS, which served as a fingerprint analysis for identifying the majority of component lipids.
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