Tore Skotland and Kirsten Sandvig, CanCell, have together with four international experts on mass spectroscopy (MS) analyses of lipids, published a short comment (2 pages with a supplementary of 2 pages) in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. The article is entitled “Pitfalls in lipid mass spectroscopy of mammalian samples – a brief guide for biologists”.
In this article the authors document that publications reporting MS analyses of lipids often include lipid species that are unlikely to be present in the samples. The authors provide recommendations for scientists submitting lipid data, and for reviewers and editors evaluating these data, to reduce reporting of erroneous lipid species.
The article was published together with the following leading experts on MS analyses of lipids: Kim Ekroos (Finland), Jeffrey McDonald (USA), Robert Ahrends (Austria) and Gerhard Liebisch (Germany).
Link to the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41580-024-00758-4
Link to a read only version (if not having access to the journal): https://rdcu.be/dMppd