Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Ion mobility-based sterolomics reveals spatially and temporally distinctive sterol lipids in the mouse brain

  • Tongzhou Li,
  • Yandong Yin,
  • Zhiwei Zhou,
  • Jiaqian Qiu,
  • Wenbin Liu,
  • Xueting Zhang,
  • Kaiwen He,
  • Yuping Cai,
  • Zheng-Jiang Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24672-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Sterol lipids are crucial for maintaining proper brain function. Here, the authors combine ion mobility-mass spectrometry and machine learning to assemble a sterol lipid library and characterize differences in sterol lipids across ten brain regions and two age groups in mice.