Lipidomes of Icelandic bryophytes and screening of high contents of polyunsaturated fatty acids by using lipidomics approach

• Published in: Phytochemistry
• Main Authors: Lu, Yi, Eiriksson, Finnur Freyr, Thorsteinsdóttir, Margrét, Cronberg, Nils, Simonsen, Henrik Toft
• Other Authors: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Health Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Bryophytes; Lipidomics; Liverworts; Mass spectrometry; Mosses; Polyunsaturated fatty acids; Fatty Acids; Unsaturated; Bryophyta; Iceland; Horticulture; Molecular Biology; Biochemistry; Plant Science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/3992; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2022.113560

Funding Information: We acknowledge Dr. Maonian Xu, University of Iceland , for the help of grinding plant materials in liquid nitrogen. Mingzhou Bai, BGI Shenzhen, is acknowledged for preparing phylogeny tree figures. This study is funded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Innovative Training Networks under European Union Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement No. 765115—MossTech . Funding Information: We acknowledge Dr. Maonian Xu, University of Iceland, for the help of grinding plant materials in liquid nitrogen. Mingzhou Bai, BGI Shenzhen, is acknowledged for preparing phylogeny tree figures. This study is funded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Innovative Training Networks under European Union Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement No. 765115—MossTech. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s) Bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) have interested researchers because of their high chemical diversity and their potential uses in pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic industries. Specifically, long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (l-PUFA) such as arachidonic acid (AA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) are commonly found in bryophytes, but not in vascular plants. Bryophytes accumulate PUFAs in cold or even freezing temperature to keep the cell fluidity. Iceland has a long history of bryophyte vegetation. These bryophytes are highly adapted to the harsh environment in Iceland and therefore are expected to produce high amounts of PUFAs. However, despite the fact that hundreds of mosses and liverworts have been found in Iceland, their lipid profiles largely remain unknown. In this study, we performed untargeted lipidomics by using UPLC-ESI-QTOF-MS as a rapid screening strategy to examine the lipid compositions of 39 local bryophyte species in Iceland and aimed to find high AA and EPA producers. A total of 280 lipid molecular species from 15 lipid classes were quantified with isotope-labeled internal standards. AA and EPA were abundantly distributed in the phospholipids (mainly PC and PE) and ...