scholarly journals Differentiation of Cystic Fibrosis-Related Pathogens by Volatile Organic Compound Analysis with Secondary Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Metabolites ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 773
Author(s):  
Jérôme Kaeslin ◽  
Srdjan Micic ◽  
Ronja Weber ◽  
Simona Müller ◽  
Nathan Perkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Cystic Fibrosis ◽  
Electrospray Ionization ◽  
Biomarker Discovery ◽  
Recursive Feature Elimination ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Ionization Mass ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
Secondary Electrospray Ionization

Identifying and differentiating bacteria based on their emitted volatile organic compounds (VOCs) opens vast opportunities for rapid diagnostics. Secondary electrospray ionization high-resolution mass spectrometry (SESI-HRMS) is an ideal technique for VOC-biomarker discovery because of its speed, sensitivity towards polar molecules and compound characterization possibilities. Here, an in vitro SESI-HRMS workflow to find biomarkers for cystic fibrosis (CF)-related pathogens P. aeruginosa, S. pneumoniae, S. aureus, H. influenzae, E. coli and S. maltophilia is described. From 180 headspace samples, the six pathogens are distinguishable in the first three principal components and predictive analysis with a support vector machine algorithm using leave-one-out cross-validation exhibited perfect accuracy scores for the differentiation between the groups. Additionally, 94 distinctive features were found by recursive feature elimination and further characterized by SESI-MS/MS, which yielded 33 putatively identified biomarkers. In conclusion, the six pathogens can be distinguished in vitro based on their VOC profiles as well as the herein reported putative biomarkers. In the future, these putative biomarkers might be helpful for pathogen detection in vivo based on breath samples from patients with CF.

scholarly journals Increased Glutathionyl Hemoglobin in Diabetes Mellitus and Hyperlipidemia Demonstrated by Liquid Chromatography/Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry

2000 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshimitsu Niwa ◽  
Chika Naito ◽  
Abdul Hassan Mohammed Mawjood ◽  
Kiyohiro Imai
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Liquid Chromatography ◽  
Electrospray Ionization ◽  
Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Healthy Subjects ◽  
Oxygen Affinity ◽  
Ionization Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Ionization Mass

Abstract Background: Erythrocytes contain a large amount of glutathione (GSH), which protects cells from oxidative injury. The purpose of this study was to examine whether hemoglobin (Hb) is modified with glutathione by oxidation of the thiol groups in diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia, and to determine the oxygen affinity of glutathionyl Hb. Methods: Hb samples obtained from patients with type 2 diabetes, patients with hyperlipidemia, and healthy subjects were analyzed by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS). Glutathionyl Hb was synthesized in vitro by incubating Hb with GSH. The oxygen affinity of glutathionyl Hb was determined by measuring its oxygen dissociation curve. Results: We first demonstrated that the concentration of glutathionyl Hbβ chains is markedly increased in the diabetic patients and hyperlipidemic patients compared with healthy subjects. The in vitro synthesis of glutathionyl Hb by incubation of Hb with GSH was enhanced by adding H2O2, a reactive oxygen species, into the incubation solution. The glutathionyl Hb prepared in vitro by incubating Hb with GSH showed a marked increase in oxygen affinity and a marked decrease in the Hill coefficient compared with Hb incubated without GSH. Conclusions: Glutathionyl Hb may be useful as a clinical marker of oxidative stress. The increased concentrations of glutathionyl Hb with high oxygen affinity and low cooperativity in diabetes and hyperlipidemia may lead to reduced tissue oxygen delivery.

scholarly journals Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry combined with the ultra high performance liquid chromatography in the analysis of in vitro formation of chlorophyll complexes with copper and zinc

2014 ◽  
Vol 79 (6) ◽  
pp. 689-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Zvezdanovic ◽  
Sanja Petrovic ◽  
Dejan Markovic ◽  
Tatjana Andjelkovic ◽  
Darko Andjelkovic
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
High Performance Liquid Chromatography ◽  
Liquid Chromatography ◽  
Electrospray Ionization ◽  
Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Ionization Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Ionization Mass ◽  
Central Type

The aim of this work was to give more accurate insight in the interaction of major photosynthesis pigment, chlorophyll (Chl), with copper (II) and zinc (II) in solution by flow injection analysis with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (FIA-ESI-MS) method, as well as combined with ultra high performance liquid chromatography with DAD detection (UHPLC-DAD). These interactions may potentially, but not necessarily lead to formation of Cu-Chl and Zn-Chl complexes of two different types, which has a lot of - at least - disfunctional implications in plant world. The results based on analysis of full-scan and MS/MS spectra - with or without the UHPLC chromatograms - confirm formation of ?central type? Cu-Chl complex, and ?central type? Zn-Chl complex as well, along with a proof for formation of ?peripheral? Zn-Chl complex, the latter one originating from a very week coordinative interaction at the edge of Chl structure. The used techniques appeared to be an efficient and reliable tool for studying formation and stability of heavy metals complexes with chlorophyll, at least in vitro, with a considerable possibility for assessment of real bio-environmental behavior.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document