Following Bligh-Dyer extraction, the organic layers were dried and subsequently reconstituted in acetonitrile-isopropanol-water (ACN:IPA:H
2O 65:30:5,
v/
v/
v). A 1200 infinity series
® high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA) coupled to an Exactive Orbitrap
® mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bremen, Germany) equipped with a heated electrospray (H-ESI II) source (operating in polarity switch mode) was used for lipid profiling. The full instrument calibration was performed using a MSCAL6 ProteoMassT LTQ/FT-Hybrid ESI Pos/Neg
® (Sigma–Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA).
Xcalibur 2.2® (Thermo Fisher Scientific, San Jose, CA, USA) was used for data acquisition and analysis. Lipid species separation was performed on a reverse phase CSH
® C
18 (100 × 2.1 mm
2 i.d., 1.7 µm particle size) column (Waters Corporation, Milford, MA, USA) using ACN:H
2O (60:40) and IPA:ACN:H
2O (88:10:2) as solvent A and B, respectively; both containing 10 mM ammonium acetate and 0.1% acetic acid [47 (
link)]. The precision associated with sample preparation and LC-HRMS measurement was determined based on a quality control (QC) consisting of a pool of 10 mothers’ milk provided by the milk bank of Nantes Hospital Center. Summary assay procedures have been detailed in
Supplementary Material.
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