120th General Meeting of the KCS

Type Oral Presentation
Area Oral Presentation of Young Analytical Chemists II
Room No. Room C308+C309
Time FRI 10:35-:
Code ANAL2.O-38
Subject Metabolic profiling in heart tissue of mice fed atherogenic diet
Authors Sunhee Jung, do hyun ryu, Geum-Sook Hwang1,*
Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
1Korea Basic Science Institute, Korea
Abstract Atherosclerosis is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease characterized by thickening of the arterial wall resulting from abnormal lipid accumulation. In atherosclerosis model, most of the studies illustrated the mechanism of atherosclerosis in biofluids and/or liver but not in heart. In the present study, we performed metabolic profile in heart tissue during the progression of diet-induced atherosclerosis mouse model using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS). A lipidomics approach was used to investigate the changes in lipid species in heart tissue from AD mice. Principal component analysis (PCA) plots showed a clear differentiation between normal diet (ND) and atherogenic diet (AD) groups in both positive and negative ion modes. In the PCA score plots, significant discriminations between ND and AD groups was observed in each time point (8 weeks, 16 weeks, and 25 weeks). Cers were significantly decreased in AD group, whereas GlcCers were increased in AD group. Saturated fatty acids including FFA 16:0 (palmitic acid) and FFA 18:0 (stearic acid) were significantly increased in AD, whereas unsaturated fatty acids were decreased. TG species were changed depending on the length of acyl chain and degree of unsaturation. Also we assessed quantitative analysis of suffer-containing amino acid (SAA) metabolites which is related with stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 (SCD1) because SCD1 produces monounsaturated fatty acids from saturated fatty acids. The levels of SAA metabolites in heart tissue were significantly changed in AD mice. This study demonstrates that LC/ MS based metabolic profiling can be used to understand metabolism in heart tissue of diet-induced atherosclerosis animal model and may provide the insight for molecular aspects of cardiovascular diseases.
E-mail jsh204@kbsi.re.kr