Development of a Laser Microdissection-Coupled Quantitative Shotgun Lipidomic Method to Uncover Spatial Heterogeneity

Varga-Zsíros, Vanda and Migh, Ede and Marton, Annamária and Kóta, Zoltán and Vizler, Csaba and Tiszlavicz, László and Horváth, Péter and Török, Zsolt and Vigh, László and Balogh, Gábor and Péter, Mária (2023) Development of a Laser Microdissection-Coupled Quantitative Shotgun Lipidomic Method to Uncover Spatial Heterogeneity. CELLS, 12 (3). No-428. ISSN 2073-4409

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Abstract

Lipid metabolic disturbances are associated with several diseases, such as type 2 diabetes or malignancy. In the last two decades, high-performance mass spectrometry-based lipidomics has emerged as a valuable tool in various fields of biology. However, the evaluation of macroscopic tissue homogenates leaves often undiscovered the differences arising from micron-scale heterogeneity. Therefore, in this work, we developed a novel laser microdissection-coupled shotgun lipidomic platform, which combines quantitative and broad-range lipidome analysis with reasonable spatial resolution. The multistep approach involves the preparation of successive cryosections from tissue samples, cross-referencing of native and stained images, laser microdissection of regions of interest, in situ lipid extraction, and quantitative shotgun lipidomics. We used mouse liver and kidney as well as a 2D cell culture model to validate the novel workflow in terms of extraction efficiency, reproducibility, and linearity of quantification. We established that the limit of dissectible sample area corresponds to about ten cells while maintaining good lipidome coverage. We demonstrate the performance of the method in recognizing tissue heterogeneity on the example of a mouse hippocampus. By providing topological mapping of lipid metabolism, the novel platform might help to uncover region-specific lipidomic alterations in complex samples, including tumors.

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