Study on Variation of Lipids during Different Growth Phases of Living Cyanobacteria Using Easy Ambient Sonic-Spray Ionization Mass Spectrometry

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• 作者：Yiqun Liu ; Jialing Zhang ; Honggang Nie ; Chunxia Dong ; Ze Li ; Zhenggao Zheng ; Yu Bai ; Huwei Liu ; Jindong Zhao
• 刊名：Analytical Chemistry
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：July 15, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：86
• 期：14
• 页码：7096-7102
• 全文大小：387K
• ISSN：1520-6882

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Lipids are important components of cell membranes and thylakoids in cyanobacteria, and they play vital roles in various biological activities. Real-time tracing of the variation of membrane lipids can provide insights of the physiological status of cyanobacterial cells. In this work, easy ambient sonic-spray ionization mass spectrometry (EASI-MS) was utilized to investigate the changes of acidic lipids in unicellular (Synechocystis 6803, Synechococcus 7002) and filamentous (Anabaena 7120) cyanobacteria during different growth phases. A sqdX mutant with a reduced synthesis of sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol (SQDG) was constructed to verify the acquired data of EASI-MS. Principal component analysis (PCA) was performed to compare the acquired data, enabling the discrimination of different species of cyanobacteria in day-to-day analysis. The results showed that the three representative cyanobacteria and their growth status can be easily determined on the basis of the lipids components detected by EASI-MS. Very interestingly, significant decreases of the ratios of SQDG/PG and dramatic changes of the unsaturation level of lipids were observed in different culture times in these cyanobacteria, and these two unique characters can be used describe the aging of cyanobacteria.