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- Title
High-Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography-Densitometry-Tandem ESI-MS to Evaluate Phospholipid Content in Exosomes of Cancer Cells.
- Authors
Sancho-Albero, María; Jarne, Carmen; Savirón, María; Martín-Duque, Pilar; Membrado, Luis; Cebolla, Vicente L.; Santamaría, Jesús
- Abstract
The question of whether exosome lipids can be considered as potential cancer biomarkers faces our current limited knowledge of their composition. This is due to the difficulty in isolating pure exosomes, the variability of the biological sources from which they are extracted, and the uncertainty of the methods for lipid characterization. Here, we present a procedure to isolate exosomes and obtain a deep, repeatable, and rapid phospholipid (PL) composition of their lipid extracts, from embryonic murine fibroblasts (NIH-3T3 cell line) and none (B16-F1) and high (B16-F10) metastatic murine skin melanoma cells. The analytical method is based on High Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography with Ultraviolet and fluorescence densitometry and coupled to Electrospray (ESI)-tandem Mass Spectrometry (MS). Under the conditions described in this work, separation and determination of PL classes, (sphingomyelins, SM; phosphatidylcholines, PC; phosphatidylserines, PS; and phosphatidylethanolamines, PE) were achieved, expressed as µg PL/100 µg exosome protein, obtained by bicinchoninic acid assay (BCA). A detailed structural characterization of molecular species of each PL class was performed by simultaneous positive and negative ESI-MS and MS/MS directly from the chromatographic plate, thanks to an elution-based interface.
- Subjects
HIGH performance liquid chromatography; EXOSOMES; CANCER cells; TUMOR markers; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINES
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 3, p1150
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms23031150