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JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH
Volume 48, Issue 12, Pages 2779-2787Publisher
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DOI: 10.1194/jlr.D700016-JLR200
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lipid peroxidation; QTRAP mass spectrometer; skin pathogenicity
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We previously discovered that squalene monohydroperoxide (SQ-OOH) was produced on human forehead skin and suggested that skin squalene (SQ) may be the principal target lipid for oxidative stress ( e. g., sunlight exposure). Because of its six double bonds, SQ peroxidation can yield various positional hydroperoxide isomers. However, the structural characterization of skin SQ-OOH isomers has never been reported. Here, we prepared pure SQ-OOH isomers and developed an analytical method for SQ-OOH isomers using a quadrupole/linear ion-trap mass spectrometer (QTRAP) MS/MS system. Collision-induced dissociation produced specific fragment ions for each SQ-OOH isomer, which permitted discrimination between SQ-OOH isomers by multiple reaction monitoring (MRM). When lipid extract from human forehead skin was subjected to LC-MS/MS with MRM, individual SQ-OOH isomers could be separated and detected with a sensitivity of 0.05 ng/injection. The total concentration of SQ-OOH isomers in forehead skin was similar to 956 mu g/g skin lipids, but it increased up to 2,760 mu g/g skin lipids after 3 h of sunlight exposure. The LC-MS/MS method was useful for investigating the peroxidation mechanisms of SQ as well as SQ-OOH-mediated skin disorders.
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