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Intelligent differential ion mobility spectrometry (iDMS): A deep neural network that predicts optimal space-resolved ion mobility parameters for isomeric monoglycosphingolipids

Nguyen-Tran, T.·Shi, X. X.·Hashimoto-Roth, E.·Organ, M. G.·Lavallee-Adam, M.·Perkins, T. J.·Bennett, S. A. L.
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Simultaneous quantification of monoglycosphingolipid stereoisomers is required to monitor changes in defective enzymatic pathways linked to diseases such as Gaucher Disease, Parkinson's Disease, and Krabbe Disease. Resolution of beta-glucosyl and beta-galactosyl epimers cannot be achieved by standard liquid chromatography, electrospray ionization, tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS). Separation becomes possible when field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS), also known as differential mobility mass spectrometry (DMS), is added as an orthogonal separation technique to LC. FAIMS/DMS separates epimeric ion clusters in a high versus low electric field (separation voltage, SV) then redirects the target epimeric ions to the mass spectrometer through the application of a direct current (compensation voltage, CoV). Resolving SVs and CoVs must be manually determined for each lipid. Manual derivation is a labour-intensive process that requires pure synthetic standards, limiting the number of stereoisomers a user can include in an assay. To address this problem, we introduce here intelligent DMS (iDMS). iDMS is an in silico supervised neural network model that learns the ion mobility relationships between SV and CoV and the monoglycosphingolipid structural features of sugar headgroup, N-acyl chain length, and N-acyl degree of unsaturation. iDMS predicts the SV and CoV combinations capable of resolving any stereoisomer pair from a training dataset of composed of measured signal intensities across a range of SVs and CoVs of 12 lipids. This machine learning alternative to manual DMS optimization promises to accelerate the deployment of multiple-reaction-monitoring mode (MRM) RPLC-ESI-DMS-MS/MS assays for the routine and rapid quantification of biologically relevant monoglycosphingolipid stereoisomers.

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Nguyen-Tran, T., Shi, X. X., Hashimoto-Roth, E., Organ, M. G., Lavallee-Adam, M., Perkins, T. J., Bennett, S. A. L.. 2026-09-01. Intelligent differential ion mobility spectrometry (iDMS): A deep neural network that predicts optimal space-resolved ion mobility parameters for isomeric monoglycosphingolipids. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.26.747394

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