Project

An in-silico MS/MS library for automatic annotation of novel FAHFA lipids associated with type 2 diabetes

Project Partner

Yan Ma, Tobias Kind, Arpana Vaniya Ingrid Gennity, Johannes F. Fahrmann, Oliver Fiehn

Introduction

Fatty Acid ester of Hydroxyl Fatty Acid (FAHFA) is a novel lipid class that was recently discovered as an endogenous lipid with anti-diabetic effects in mammalian system. Here we developed and validated an in-silico MS/MS library for FAHFAs based on the negative mode QTOF spectra of the external reference standards. The primary library contains 3267 MS/MS spectra at 10, 20 and 40 V CID from 1089 common FAHFA structures. We then took the FAHFAs with saturate hydroxyl fatty acid and generated another more fragment-rich library of 4290 MS/MS spectra at 40 V CID with longer acquisition time, to help identify the position of the hydroxyl group. This new library can be applied in the automatic annotation of FAHFAs in any biological samples.

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The Excel template, MSP files and NIST format libraries can be downloaded here (2.7 MB).