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- Title
Lipidomic changes during different growth stages of Nitzschia closterium f. minutissima.
- Authors
Su, Xiaoling; Xu, Jilin; Yan, Xiaojun; Zhao, Peng; Chen, Juanjuan; Zhou, Chengxu; Zhao, Fang; Li, Shuang
- Abstract
Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography-Electrospray ionization-Quadrupole-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (UPLC-ESI-Q-TOF-MS) is a powerful lipidomic tool. In this study, we developed a UPLC/Q-TOF-MS based method to investigate the lipid metabolomic changes in different growth phases of Nitzschia closterium f. minutissima. The data classification and biomarker selection were carried out by using multivariate statistical analysis, including principal components analysis (PCA), projection to latent structures with discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), and orthogonal projection to latent structures with discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA). We discovered that the intercellular lipid metabolites were significantly different among exponential, early stationary and late stationary phases. Thirty-one lipid molecules were selected and identified as putative biomarkers, including free fatty acid, Harderoporphyrin, phosphatidylglycerol, 1,2-diacyglycerl-3-O-4′-(N,N-trimethy)-homoserine, triacylglycerol, cholesterol, sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol, lyso-sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol, monogalactosyldiacylglycerol, digalactosyldiacylglycerol and lyso-digalactosyldiacylglycerol. These lipids have been shown previously to function in energy storage, membrane stability and photosynthesis efficiency during the growth of diatoms. Further analysis on the putative biomarkers demonstrated that nitrate starvation played critical role in the transition from exponential phase to stationary phase in N. closterium. This study is the first one to explore the lipidomic changes of microalgae in different growth phases, which promotes better understanding of their physiology and ecology.
- Subjects
NITZSCHIA closterium; ALGAL growth; LIQUID chromatography; LIPID metabolism; METABOLOMICS; MULTIVARIATE analysis; PRINCIPAL components analysis
- Publication
Metabolomics, 2013, Vol 9, Issue 2, p300
- ISSN
1573-3882
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11306-012-0445-1