Study of Phospholipids in Single Cells Using an Integrated Microfluidic Device Combined with Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Single-cell trapping and high-throughput mass spectrometry analysis remain challenging now. Current technologies for single-cell analysis have several limitations, such as throughput, space resolution, and multicomponent analysis. In this study, we demonstrate, for the first time, the combination of microfluidic chip and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) for high-throughput and automatic single-cell phospholipids analysis. A microwell-array-based microfluidic chip was designed and fabricated for cell array formation on an indium tin oxide (ITO)-coated glass slide. Mass spectrometry imaging measurement with 25 μm pixel size was performed with a MALDI ion source. Eight phospholipids in a single A549 cell were detected, and their structures were further identified by MS/MS spectra. Selected ion images were generated with a bin width of Δm/z ± 0.005. The selected ion images and optical images of the cell array showed excellent correlation, and mass spectrometry information on phospholipids from 1-3 cells was extracted automatically by selecting pixels with the same fixed interval between microwells on the chip. The measurement and data extraction could be processed in several minutes to achieve a high-throughput analysis. Through the optimization of different microwell sizes and different matrices, this method showed potential for the analysis of other metabolites or metabolic changes at the single-cell level..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:87

Enthalten in:

Analytical chemistry - 87(2015), 14, Seite 7052

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gao, Dan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Hongxia [Sonstige Person]
Jin, Feng [Sonstige Person]
Xie, Weiyi [Sonstige Person]
Jiang, Yuyang [Sonstige Person]

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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BKL:

35.00

Themen:

Cells
Chemical properties
Desorption
Ions
Lasers
Lipids
Mass spectrometry
Matrix
Phospholipids
Tin compounds
Usage

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1969707585