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2022 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. 112549
Author(s):  
Lenka Hruba ◽  
Pavel Polishchuk ◽  
Viswanath Das ◽  
Marian Hajduch ◽  
Petr Dzubak

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joo-Yoon Noh ◽  
Moon-Ju Kim ◽  
Jong-Min Park ◽  
Tae Gyeong Yun ◽  
Min-Jung Kang ◽  
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AbstractVitamin D deficiency is associated with various disorders and is diagnosed based on the concentration of 25-hydroxy vitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) in serum. The parylene matrix chip was fabricated to reduce the matrix background noise, and the homogenous distribution of the matrix was retained for the quantitative analysis of 25(OH)D3. The Amplex Red assay was performed to confirm that the sample-matrix mixing zone of the parylene matrix chip was formed below the surface of the parylene-N film. The homogeneous distribution of the matrix was verified from the fluorescence image. For effective analysis using a parylene matrix chip, 25(OH)D3 was modified through the nucleophilic addition of betaine aldehyde (BA) to form a hemiacetal salt. Such modified 25(OH)D3 with a positive charge from BA could be effectively analyzed using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Serum 25(OH)D3 was extracted by liquid–liquid extraction (LLE) and quantified using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry based on the parylene matrix chip. The intensity of the mass peak of 25(OH)D3 was linearly correlated (r2 = 0.992) with the concentration of 25(OH)D3 spiked in serum, and the LOD was 0.0056 pmol/μL. Energy drinks and vitamin D3 tablets were also employed for the real sample analysis. Finally, the results of the chemiluminescence binding assay and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry were statistically analyzed to determine the applicability of the method using the Bland–Altman test and Passing–Bablok regression.


2022 ◽  
pp. 101145
Author(s):  
Kathrin M. Engel ◽  
Patricia Prabutzki ◽  
Jenny Leopold ◽  
Ariane Nimptsch ◽  
Katharina Lemmnitzer ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daojiang Yu ◽  
Peng Lai ◽  
Tao Yan ◽  
Kai Fang ◽  
Lei Chen ◽  
...  

As a matrix metalloproteinase, the abnormal expression of MMP2 is associated with multiple biological processes, including tissue remodeling and cancer progression. Therefore, spatial analysis of MMP2 protein in tissues can be used as an important approach to evaluate the expression distribution of MMP2 in complex tissue environments, which will help the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, including tissue or organ injuries. Moreover, this analysis will also help the evaluation of prognoses. However, MMP2 is difficult to be spatially determined by MALDI TOF mass spectrometry due to its large molecular weight (over 72 KD) and low content. Therefore, a new method should be developed to help this detection. Here, we have designed a specific MMP2 probe that closely binds to MMP2 protein in tissue. This probe has a Cl on Tyr at the terminal, which can provide two isotope peaks to help the accuracy quantitative of MMP2 protein. Based on this, we used the probe to determine the spatial expression of MMP2 in the tissues based on MALDI TOF mass spectrometry. This approach may help to study the influence of multifunctional proteases on the degree of malignancy in vivo.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas C. Lazari ◽  
Rodrigo M Zerbinati ◽  
Livia Rosa-Fernandes ◽  
Veronica Feijoli Santiago ◽  
Klaise F. Rosa ◽  
...  

The SARS-CoV-2 infections are still imposing a great public health challenge despite the recent developments in vaccines and therapy. Searching for diagnostic and prognostic methods that are fast, low-cost and accurate is essential for disease control and patient recovery. The MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry technique is rapid, low cost and accurate when compared to other MS methods, thus its use is already reported in the literature for various applications, including microorganism identification, diagnosis and prognosis of diseases. Here we developed a prognostic method for COVID-19 using the proteomic profile of saliva samples submitted to MALDI-TOF and machine learning algorithms to train models for COVID-19 severity assessment. We achieved an accuracy of 88.5%, specificity of 85% and sensitivity of 91.5% for classification between mild/moderate and severe conditions. Then, we tested the model performance in an independent dataset, we achieved an accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 67.18, 52.17 and 75.60% respectively. Saliva is already reported to have high inter-sample variation; however, our results demonstrates that this approach has the potential to be a prognostic method for COVID-19. Additionally, the technology used is already available in several clinics, facilitating the implementation of the method. Further investigation using a bigger dataset is necessary to consolidate the technique.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 100545
Author(s):  
Charles Banliat ◽  
Valérie Labas ◽  
Daniel Tomas ◽  
Ana-Paula Teixeira-Gomes ◽  
Benoît Guyonnet ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 2343
Author(s):  
Itaru Dekio ◽  
Ken-ichi Okuda ◽  
Masako Nishida ◽  
Susumu Hamada-Tsutsumi ◽  
Tomo Suzuki ◽  
...  

Cutibacterium modestum is a new species coined in 2020 as the fifth species of genus Cutibacterium, which includes Cutibacterium acnes. The species is predicted as a minor but common member of skin microbiome and includes a group tentatively named as “Propionibacterium humerusii”. The description of the species has been provided only with a single strain. To establish the characteristics of C. modestum and search for possible disease-related subtypes, we investigated the biochemical characteristics of eight live strains and performed in silico comparison of nine genomes. The common features, which included the morphology of Gram-stain positive short rods, the negativity of phenylalanine arylamidase, and several unique MALDI-TOF MS spectral peaks, were considered useful in laboratory identification. Pairwise comparisons of the genomes by in silico DNA–DNA hybridization showed similarity values of 98.1% or larger, which were far higher than the subspecies cutoff of 79–80%. The 16S rRNA gene sequences of thirteen isolates and genomes were identical. Their recA gene sequences were identical except for two strains, HM-510 (HL037PA2) and Marseille-P5998, which showed unique one-nucleotide polymorphisms. The biochemical features using API kits were slightly different among the isolates but far closer than those of the nearest other species, C. acnes and Cutibacterium namnetense. Spectra of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry showed slight differences in the presence of m/z 10,512 (10 kD chaperonin GroS) and three other peaks, further clustering the eight isolates into three subtypes. These results indicated that these isolates did not separate to form subspecies-level clusters, but subtyping is possible by using recA gene sequences or MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry spectra. Moreover, this work has confirmed that a group “P. humerusii” is included in C. modestum.


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