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Headspace gas chromatography of volatile lipid peroxidation products from human red blood cell membranes

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An improved headspace capillary gas chromatographic (GC) method was developed to measure the oxidative susceptibility of human red blood cell (RBC) membranes. This method analyzed volatile peroxidation products of both n−6 (hexanal and pentane) and n−3 (propanal) polyunsaturated fatty acids. Oxidative susceptibility tests were standardized by incubating in a sealed 10-mL headspace bottle 0.25 or 1 mL of human RBC membrane in 40 mM phosphate buffer for 1 hr at 37°C with a mixture of Fe++, ascorbic acid and H2O2. Sodium dodecyl sulfate increased significantly the amount of hexanal measured by headspace GC. By this standard headspace method, in one series of red blood cell membranes (RBCM) samples a four-fold variation in oxidative susceptibility was observed in RBCM from blood freshly drawn from six healthy subjects. In another series of RBCM samples a sixteen-fold variation in oxidative susceptibility was noted in frozen RBCM from blood freshly drawn from five healthy subjects. Correlation between hexanal formation and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) depletion provided good evidence that under these standard conditions hexanal is exclusively derived from the oxidation of arachidonic acid. Hydroperoxides of arachidonic acid are more readily formed and decomposed than those of linoleic acid in the presence of Fe++, ascorbic acid and H2O2 to produce hexanal as the main product that can be readily analyzed by headspace GC. This method may provide a useful tool to study susceptibility toward lipid peroxidative damage in human RBC membranes.

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Abbreviations

AA:

ascorbic acid

AAPH:

2,2′-azobis(2-aminidopropane) dihydrochloride

EDTA:

ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid

FA:

total fatty acids

GC:

gas chromatography

PUFA:

polyunsaturated fatty acids

RBC:

red blood cells

RBCM:

red blood cell membranes

SDS:

sodium dodecyl sulfate

TBA:

thiobarbituric acid

TBARS:

thiobarbituric acid reactive substances

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Frankel, E.N., Tappel, A.L. Headspace gas chromatography of volatile lipid peroxidation products from human red blood cell membranes. Lipids 26, 479–484 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02536076

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