Sodium sulphate

Formic acid, free cholesterol enzymatic test kit, trimethylamine, pyridine, sodium sulphate, palmitic acid, and palladium/carbon were purchased from FUJIFILM WAKO Chemicals (Osaka, Japan). Acetone, chloroform, ethanol, filipin complex, 1-hydroxytriazole, Ham′s F-12 medium, iodine, pivaloyl chloride, serine, and toluene were purchased from Nacalai tesque (Kyoto, Japan). Acetonitrile, methanol-d₄, and chloroform-d were purchased from Kanto Kagaku (Tokyo, Japan). Acetyl chloride, dichloromethane, 1, 3-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, imidazole, N-methylmorpholine, L-serine benzyl ester hydrochloride, and phosphorus trichloride were purchased from Tokyo chemical industry Co. (Tokyo, Japan). NBD-F was purchased from DONJINDO laboratories (Kumamoto, Japan). Choline tosylate was purchased from Toronto Research Chemicals (North York, ON, Canada). Foetal bovine serum was purchased from Gibco (Grand island, NY, USA). SPC and Lyso-SM (d17:1) were purchased from Avanti polar lipids, Co. Ltd. (Alabaster, AL, USA). Ultrapure water was prepared with PURELAB ultra (Organo Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) and used in all MS analyses.