Trapped ion mobility spectrometry and PASEF enable in-depth lipidomics from minimal sample amounts

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A comprehensive characterization of the lipidome from limited starting material remains very challenging. Here we report a high-sensitivity lipidomics workflow based on nanoflow liquid chromatography and trapped ion mobility spectrometry (TIMS). Taking advantage of parallel accumulation–serial fragmentation (PASEF), we fragment on average 15 precursors in each of 100 ms TIMS scans, while maintaining the full mobility resolution of co-eluting isomers. The acquisition speed of over 100 Hz allows us to obtain MS/MS spectra of the vast majority of isotope patterns. Analyzing 1 µL of human plasma, PASEF increases the number of identified lipids more than three times over standard TIMS-MS/MS, achieving attomole sensitivity. Building on high intra- and inter-laboratory precision and accuracy of TIMS collisional cross sections (CCS), we compile 1856 lipid CCS values from plasma, liver and cancer cells. Our study establishes PASEF in lipid analysis and paves the way for sensitive, ion mobility-enhanced lipidomics in four dimensions.

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Online Parallel Accumulation–Serial Fragmentation (PASEF) with a Novel Trapped Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometer *

Florian Meier, Andreas-David Brunner, Scarlet Koch … (2018)

PASEF multiplies the sequencing speed without any loss in sensitivity and is implemented in the timsTOF Pro instrument introduced here. Sequencing speeds above 100 Hz enable single run proteome analysis at a depth of 6000 proteins, making the instrument particularly attractive for rapid and highly sensitive proteomics. Collisional cross sections can be determined with up to 0.1% precision and acquired on a scale of 100,000s, which opens exciting areas for proteomics exploration.