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. 2019 Sep 13;9:13254. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-49684-y

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Alterations in ceramide content in unbound epidermal lipids in Fatp4−/− mice. Fraction 3 of unbound epidermal lipids of newborn mice was analyzed by ESI-MS as [M − H] ions in the negative-ion mode and quantified in arbitrary units. Fatp4−/− mice showed a shift to the Cer(NS) species with a shorter saturated acyl chain (a), decreased levels of the Cer(NdS) and Cer(OS) species that contained a saturated acyl chain (b,e) and of all Cer(EOS) species (f), and increased levels of several species in Cer(NP) and Cer(AS) (c,d). These defects were all normalized by the Fatp1 transgene. Data were obtained from 4 each of Fatp4+/− (controls), Fatp4−/−, and FATP1-rescued mutants with m/z ratios, standard deviation, and statistical significance shown (*P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001). See Materials and Methods for nomenclature.