PMID- 17919519 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20080102 LR - 20131121 IS - 0009-3084 (Print) IS - 0009-3084 (Linking) VI - 150 IP - 2 DP - 2007 Dec TI - Apoptosis-associated changes in the glycerophospholipid composition of hematopoietic progenitor cells monitored by 31P NMR spectroscopy and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. PG - 229-38 AB - Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, plays an important role in development and in tissue homeostasis and is assumed to be accompanied by changes in the composition of cellular glycerophospholipids (GPL). We have applied a combination of 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and matrix-assisted laser desorption and ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) to the analysis of organic extracts of hematopoietic progenitor cells undergoing the physiologically relevant process of apoptosis following growth factor withdrawal. The combined application of these methods enables the quantitative analysis of all glycerophospholipid classes and reveals changes in the acyl chain compositions from crude cell extracts. Using these techniques, an increase in the ratio of ether-linked glycerophospholipids to diacyl-glycerophospholipids during apoptosis was observed. The relative decrease in the membrane diacyl-phosphatidylcholine (PC) levels was found to correlate with increased concentrations of the corresponding lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) present in the medium. FAU - Fuchs, Beate AU - Fuchs B AD - University of Leipzig, Medical Faculty, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Hartelstr. 16-18, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany. Beate.Fuchs@medizin.uni-leipzig.de FAU - Schiller, Jurgen AU - Schiller J FAU - Cross, Michael A AU - Cross MA LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20070901 PL - Ireland TA - Chem Phys Lipids JT - Chemistry and physics of lipids JID - 0067206 RN - 0 (Ethanolamines) RN - 0 (Glycerophospholipids) RN - 0 (Interleukin-3) RN - 0 (Lipids) RN - 0 (Phospholipids) RN - 107-73-3 (Phosphorylcholine) RN - PDC6A3C0OX (Glycerol) SB - IM MH - *Apoptosis MH - Biochemistry/*methods MH - Ethanolamines/chemistry MH - Glycerol/chemistry MH - Glycerophospholipids/*metabolism MH - Hematopoietic Stem Cells/*metabolism MH - Humans MH - Interleukin-3/metabolism MH - Lipids/chemistry MH - Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy/*methods MH - Mass Spectrometry/*methods MH - Phospholipids/chemistry MH - Phosphorylcholine/chemistry MH - Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization/*methods EDAT- 2007/10/09 09:00 MHDA- 2008/01/03 09:00 CRDT- 2007/10/09 09:00 PHST- 2007/03/21 00:00 [received] PHST- 2007/08/27 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2007/08/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2007/10/09 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/01/03 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/10/09 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0009-3084(07)00421-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2007.08.005 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Chem Phys Lipids. 2007 Dec;150(2):229-38. doi: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2007.08.005. Epub 2007 Sep 1.