Journal of Glycomics & Lipidomics
Open Access
ISSN: 2153-0637
ISSN: 2153-0637
Jenny Schroter
Germany
Editorial
The Need for Commercially Available Defined Oxidized (Phospho)lipids
Author(s): Jurgen Schiller, Kathrin M Engel, Jenny Schroter and Yulia PopkovaJurgen Schiller, Kathrin M Engel, Jenny Schroter and Yulia Popkova
Phospholipids are essential components of cell membranes and organelles. Furthermore, they are present in body fluids, particularly in the blood, where lipids are made "water-soluble" in the form of lipoproteins to enable their transport in an aqueous environment [1]. The ubiquitous occurrence of lipids led to the development of different analytical "lipidomics" techniques, whereby the majority of these methods are based on mass spectrometry (MS) [2]. Although there was an enormous progress in this field, lipid analysis is still considered to be challenging due to the extreme structural variability of lipids which leads to the appearance of hundreds of different lipid species in a typical biological sample [3]. This is due to (a) the different headgroups such as phosphorylcholine or -ethanolamine, (b) the different fatty acyl residues ranging from saturated residue.. Read More»
DOI:
10.4172/2153-0637.1000e126