Rapid assessment of lipidomics sample quality and quantity using attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy

<p>In this work, we aimed to develop a simple lipid quality and quantification method for biological lipid extracts, as a step in lipidomics workflows, with minimal sample requirement. We chose FTIR spectroscopy with an Attenuate Total Reflectance (ATR) sampling method as it requires just 1 microliter of MS-ready sample without additional sample preparation. We validated the proposed lipidomics sample quality control workflow using a set of plasma samples (n=107, with 3-4 technical replicates) with comparison to LC-MS-based lipidomics. The following file contains the resulting spectra acquired by ATR-FTIR spectrometry for these plasma samples, standard curves and contaminated samples used for method development.&nbsp;Spectrometer was ambient blanked and detector cleaned between each measurement. Lipid samples were extracted by butanol-methanol (3:1) precipitation, and dried directly onto the ATR-FTIR detector. Absorbance was measured between 4,000 and 650 cm-1 wavenumbers, at a resolution of 8cm-1. Each spectra has been baseline corrected (whole spectra).</p>