Denise Wolrab

University of Pardubice

In this community effort, we compare measurements between 34 laboratories from 19 countries, utilizing mixtures of labelled authentic synthetic standards, to quantify by mass spectrometry four clinically used ceramide species in the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) human blood plasma Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1950, as w...

Ultrahigh-performance supercritical fluid chromatography–mass spectrometry (UHPSFC/MS) method is optimized for the high-throughput quantitation of lipids in human serum and plasma with an emphasis on robustness and accurate quantitation. Bridged ethylene hybrid (BEH) silica column (100 × 3 mm; 1.7 μm) is used for the separation of 17 nonpolar and p...

The rapid increase in lipidomic studies has led to a collaborative effort within the community to establish standards and criteria for producing, documenting, and disseminating data. Creating a dynamic easy-to-use checklist that condenses key information about lipidomic experiments into common terminology will enhance the field's consistency, compa...

Lipidomic profiling potentially allows the differentiation of healthy and cancerous samples, which could enable early cancer screening. The methodology for diagnostic purposes should be carefully and critically optimized, evaluated, and validated to ensure data quality, which may allow to draw conclusions on the pathological state. For the initial...

This chapter summarizes the possibilities of coupling of chromatographic separation techniques and mass spectrometry in the lipidomic analysis. We focus on liquid chromatography and supercritical fluid chromatography separation approaches because they offer the best potential for the analysis of various classes of lipids. Chromatographic approaches...

Knowledge of the compositions and concentrations of lipids in the biological system leads to a better understanding of their biochemical role in living organisms. The mass spectrometry (MS)‐based methods have provided us a great opportunity to achieve these goals with a high confidence. Quantitative methods should be carefully optimized and validat...

Direct infusion of lipid extracts into the ion source of a mass spectrometer is a well-established method for lipid analysis. In most cases, nanofluidic devices are used for sample introduction. However, flow injection analysis (FIA) based on sample infusion from a chromatographic pump can offer a simple alternative to shotgun-based approaches. Her...

Purpose: RCC, the most common type of kidney cancer, is associated with high mortality. A non-invasive diagnostic test remains unavailable due to the lack of RCC-specific biomarkers in body fluids. We have previously described a significantly altered profile of sulfatides in RCC tumor tissues, motivating us to investigate whether these alterations...

The rapid increase in lipidomic data has triggered a community-based movement to develop guidelines and minimum requirements for generating, reporting and publishing lipidomic data. The creation of a dynamic checklist summarizing key details of lipidomic analyses using a common language has the potential to harmonize the field by improving both tra...

Ultrahigh-performance supercritical fluid chromatography/mass spectrometry (UHPSFC/MS) is one of the fastest analytical approaches for high-throughput lipidomic analysis covering a wide range of lipid categories and classes. Lipid class separation and lipid species separation are two main separation modes available for the UHPSFC analysis of lipids...

The applicability of ultrahigh-performance supercritical fluid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (UHPSFC/MS) for the qualitative analysis of metabolites with a wide polarity range (log P: -3.89 – 18.95) was evaluated using a representative set of 78 standards belonging to nucleosides, biogenic amines, carbohydrates, amino acids, and lip...

Pancreatic cancer has the worst prognosis among all cancers. Cancer screening of body fluids may improve the survival time prognosis of patients, who are often diagnosed too late at an incurable stage. Several studies report the dysregulation of lipid metabolism in tumor cells, suggesting that changes in the blood lipidome may accompany tumor growt...

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) represents the most common type of kidney cancer with the highest incidence and mortality rate among all urological malignancies. In this study, we show that RCC-related processes change body fluids sphingolipid concentrations, which may be used to monitor cancer occurrence in low-invasive lipid-based blood and urine test...

Early detection of cancer is one of the unmet needs in clinical medicine. Peripheral blood analysis is a preferred method for efficient population screening, because blood collection is well embedded in clinical practice and minimally invasive for patients. Lipids are important biomolecules, and variations in lipid concentrations can reflect pathol...

We present the LipidQuant 1.0 tool for automated data processing workflows in lipidomic quantitation based on lipid class separation coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry. Lipid class separation workflows, such as hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography or supercritical fluid chromatography, should be preferred in lipidomic quantitat...

Early cancer screening is one of the unmet needs in clinical medicine. The peripheral blood analysis is a preferred method for efficient population screening as blood collection is well embedded in clinical practice and minimally invasive for patients. Lipids are important biomolecules, and variations in lipid concentrations may reflect pathologica...

Reversed-phase ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (RP-UHPLC/MS) method was developed with the aim to unambiguously identify a large number of lipid species from multiple lipid classes in human plasma. The optimized RP-UHPLC/MS method employed the C18 column with sub-2-μm particles with the total run time of 25 min. The ch...

Tumor heterogeneity is one of the hallmarks of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Morphology within a given GBM tumor can be extremely variable where some regions of the tumor have a soft, gel-like structure while other areas are dense and fibrous. Abnormal mechanical stress and tissue stiffening caused by cancer proliferation are believed to affect va...

Reversed-phase ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (RP-UHPLC/MS) method was developed with the aim to unambiguously identify a large number of lipid species from multiple lipid classes in human plasma. The optimized RP-UHPLC/MS method employed the C18 column with sub-2 micrometer particles with the total run time of 25 m...

The lipidomic research is currently devoting considerable effort to the harmonization that should enable the generation of comparable and accurate quantitative lipidomic data across different laboratories and regardless of the mass spectrometry-based platform used. In the present study, we systematically investigate the effects of the experimental...

Glycosphingolipids (GSL) represent a highly heterogeneous class of lipids with many cellular functions, implicated in a wide spectrum of human diseases. Their isolation, detection, and comprehensive structural analysis is a challenging task due to the structural diversity of GSL molecules. In this work, GSL subclasses are isolated from human plasma...

Pancreatic cancer has the worst prognosis among all cancers1. Cancer screening programs based on the analysis of body fluids can improve the survival time of patients, who are often diagnosed too late at an incurable stage2. Several studies have reported the dysregulation of lipid metabolism in tumor cells and tissues3, suggesting that the changes...

Glycosphingolipids (GSL) represent a highly heterogeneous class of lipids with many cellular functions, implicated in a wide spectrum of human diseases. Their isolation, detection, and comprehensive structural analysis is a challenging task due to the structural diversity of GSL molecules. In this work, GSL subclasses are isolated from human plasma...

A set of new mixed-mode ion-exchange stationary phases is presented. The backbone of organic selectors is formed by a linear hydrocarbon chain, which is divided into two parts of various lengths by a heteroatom (oxygen or nitrogen). In all studied cases, there is a sulfonic acid moiety as the terminal group. Therefore, selectors bearing oxygen gave...

Effects of blood collection tubes, the time period, the sample origin, and the method used on the lipidomic profile are investigated by ultrahigh-performance supercritical fluid chromatography - mass spectrometry (UHPSFC/MS) and hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (HILIC-UHPL...

Ultrahigh-performance supercritical fluid chromatography–mass spectrometry (UHPSFC/MS) has a great potential for the high-throughput lipidomic quantitation of biological samples; therefore, the full optimization and method validation of UHPSFC/MS is compared here with ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (UHPLC/MS) in hydro...

Ultrahigh-performance supercritical fluid chromatography - mass spectrometry (UHPSFC/MS), ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (UHPLC/MS), and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) - MS techniques were used for the lipidomic characterization of exosomes isolated from human plasma. The high-throughput methods...

This review summarizes available mass spectrometry (MS)based approaches for the quantitative analysis of lipids in biological samples in the cancer research, which is termed here as oncolipidomics. The methodological part shows possible configurations of stand-alone MS or MS coupled to liquid-phase separation techniques. For the characterization of...

Background: The amino sulphonic acid taurine reduces oxidative endoplasmatic reticulum stress and inhibits hepatic stellate cell activation, which might lead to reduction of portal pressure in cirrhosis. Aim: To assess the haemodynamic effects of taurine supplementation in patients with cirrhosis and varices. Methods: Patients with hepatic ven...

Major differences in the chromatographic performance of a zwitterion ion-exchange type (ZWIX) chiral stationary phase (CSP) in supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) have been observed. To explain these differences, transition from HPLC to SFC conditions has been performed. The amount of a protic...

For acceptance of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) as a routine analysis method, the hyphenation to mass spectrometry (MS), which is typically achieved either by a splitting device or by the employment of an additional make up flow, has to be improved. Direct coupling of SFC to MS (/MS) would simplify the handling of this method. Consequent...

During inflammation, proteins and lipids act in a concerted fashion, calling for combined analyses. Fibroblasts are powerful mediators of chronic inflammation. However, little is known about eicosanoid formation by human fibroblasts. Aim of this study was to analyze the formation of the most relevant inflammation mediators including proteins and li...

Response profiling using shotgun proteomics for establishing global metallodrug mechanisms of action in two colon carcinoma cell lines, HCT116 and SW480, was applied and evaluated with the clinically approved arsenic trioxide. Surprisingly, the complete established mechanism of action of arsenic trioxide was observed by protein regulations in SW480...

The aim of this study was developing a supercritical fluid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (SFC-MS/MS) method and an ultra-high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) method, for the analysis of N-acetyl-serotonin (NAS) and melatonin (Mel) in human serum, and to compare the performance of these methods. Deu...

In this study we attempted to describe in a comparative manner the enantioselectivity performance of six different polysaccharide- and two strong cation exchanger-type chiral stationary phases (CSPs) for the resolution of free and N-protected β-carboline derivatives. On commercially available cellulose- or amylose-based CSPs, the enantioseparations...

We present the enantioseparation of new designer drugs from the cathinone family on structurally different chiral ion-exchange type stationary phases. A novel strong cation-exchange type chiral stationary phase was synthesized and its performance compared with previously reported ion-exchange type chiral stationary phases. The influence of structur...

Enantioseparation of chiral amines with HPLC has developed into a widely used analytical and preparative tool. Chiral basic molecules, which act as cationic species upon protonation, are suited for an enantioselective cation-exchange process. Novel strong cation exchangers based on different 3,5-disubstituted benzoic acids functionalized with trans...

A new strong cation exchange type chiral stationary phase (SCX CSP) based on a syringic acid amide derivative of trans-(R, R)-2-aminocyclohexanesulfonic acid was applied to subcritical fluid chromatography (SFC) for separation of various chiral basic drugs and their analogues. Mobile phase systems consisting of aliphatic alcohols as polar modifiers...

The synthesis, ab initio calculations, and a comparative nuclear magnetic resonance study of a novel chiral mefloquine-based selector (SO) are presented. On a series of variously N-acyl protected leucine selectands (SAs), a feasibility study of mefloquine carbamate as a basic chiral solvating agent, and potential fluorophilic high-performance liqui...