基于小分子化合物分析的MALDI-TOF MS新型基质研究进展

基质辅助激光解吸附离子化-飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF MS)是一种新型的软电离生物质谱,近十年来得到了快速发展,在小分子化合物的分析检测中发挥了重要作用。其基质的选择一直是关注的重点,目前,研究者们已开发出多种新型MALDI-TOF MS基质,主要分为纳米材料和新型有机化合物两大类,基质性能的完善与提高使得MALDI-TOF MS的检测结果有了更高的准确度和灵敏度,更小的背景噪音,更干净的谱图,但目前尚处于研究阶段,现阶段仍无法替代传统有机基质。该文通过对新型基质的研究进展进行整理,总结出不同种类基质的优点、特性及适用对象,并对未来的MALDI-TOF MS基质研究作出了展望。     

以石墨烯为基质的MALDI-TOF MS对有机及药物小分子的检测

以石墨烯为基质辅助激光解吸/电离飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF MS)的新型基质,对氨基酸、多胺化合物、雌激素、环磷酰胺、脱氧核糖核苷酸、胞嘧啶β-D-阿糖等一些典型有机小分子、药物小分子及一些有机反应中间体等进行检测分析。实验结果显示,新型二维石墨烯纳米材料可作为MALDI-TOF MS的新型基质替代三氟乙酸(TFA)等传统基质,实现了对有机及药物小分子的高灵敏检测,且分辨率、解吸/电离效率均较传统基质有着显著提升,具有重现性及耐盐性。     

MALDI-TOF MS测定多肽类聚合物相对分子质量的条件优化

本文用基质辅助激光解吸电离飞行时间质谱来测定多肽类聚合物的相对分子质量,对基质、溶剂以及添加阳离子条件进行了优化。     

基于MALDI-TOF MS微生物检测的一次性纸基靶板开发

针对基质辅助激光解吸电离飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF MS)目前使用的不锈钢靶板或一次性可抛弃塑料靶板存在的清洗流程复杂,易有残留从而产生交叉污染或需要回收、污染环境等问题,开发了一种可一次性使用的纸基靶板。该靶板成本低,使用后方便处理,不会对环境造成污染。并利用标准品从分辨率、灵敏度、重现性、微生物鉴定4个方面对纸基靶板进行了测试,结果表明开发的纸基靶板在分辨率、灵敏度等指标方面与钢靶板基本一致,样品检测重现性较好,具有应用于临床微生物检测的潜力。     

基于MALDI-TOF MS的串联富集策略在磷酸化蛋白组学中的应用

提出一种除盐-富集串联用于磷酸肽富集研究的思路。选用C18柱和铈(Ⅳ)修饰的壳聚糖材料进行脱盐实验,以制备的基于聚合物基体螯合Fe3+的亲和色谱材料为富集材料。将直接富集和串联策略应用到标准品和血清中,研究结果表明,该富集材料具有高选择性和高灵敏度(1.6 fmol),铈(Ⅳ)修饰的壳聚糖材料前提下的串联策略能明显降低样品的复杂性。相比直接富集方法,能够提高磷酸化肽的覆盖率。     

利用MALDI-TOF MS鉴定芽苗菜中解鸟氨酸拉乌尔菌和肺炎克雷伯菌的研究

应用基质解析电离飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF MS)方法对芽苗菜中检出率较高的2种微生物进行鉴定,结果为解鸟氨酸拉乌尔菌(33.3%)和肺炎克雷伯菌(43.5%)。应用SARAMIS Premium软件对这2种微生物的蛋白质图谱进行分析,获得解鸟氨酸拉乌尔菌特征标识峰16组,肺炎克雷伯菌特征标识峰10组;对分离微生物进行全标识峰和加权特征峰相关性分析,结果表明特征峰的加权会影响微生物鉴定结果间的相关关系,增强微生物的辨识度;对两种微生物进行多方面比较,发现两种微生物生化特性比较接近,但16Sr DNA分辨率较高,质谱相关分析虽有相交但可辨识。实验结果表明MALDI-TOF MS具有检测芽苗菜中微生物的能力并在其特征分析及溯源研究上具有一定的优势,MALDI-TOF MS为开放平台,对农产品微生物蛋白质特征图谱的收集与优化可提高其鉴定准确性。     

金黄色葡萄球菌及其甲氧苯青霉素耐药性的MALDI-TOF MS鉴定

用MALDI－TOS MS细菌指纹图谱鉴定细菌，建立区分金黄色葡萄球菌甲氧苯青霉素耐药株和敏感株的MALDI－TOF MS分析方法，检测了76株从临床标本中分离得到的金黄色葡萄球菌，用软件进行聚类分析，以nuc(耐热核酸酶）基因和mecA(耐药）基因聚合酶链反应（PCR）检测结果为参照，74％的菌株经MALDI－TOF MS给出了正确的鉴定结果；金黄色葡萄球菌甲氧苯青霉素耐药株和敏感株的质谱图有很大差别，各自有其特征峰；经过软件聚类分析，76株实验菌株划敏感群和耐药群；与PCR检测结果对照，有7株菌PCR检测mecA基因为阴性，而经MALDI－TOF MS鉴定为耐药株，表型鉴定表明其中有5株为敏感株；利用细菌指纹图谱和数据库检索对大多数菌株实现了正确鉴定；MALDI－TOF MS分辨率高，甚至可以区分株间的差异，实现了区分金黄色葡萄球菌甲氧苯青霉素耐药株和敏感株；结果表明MALDI－TOF MS提供了一个很有前景的鉴定细菌的快速方法。     

对位芳纶端基结构分析的MALDI-TOF MS方法的建立与优化

采用基质辅助激光解吸电离飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF MS)对对位芳纶的端基结构进行分析。以3-氨基喹啉为基质,三氟乙酸钾为离子化剂,采用蒸发研磨法(E-G)制备了测试样;为了获得具有较高信噪比的对位芳纶MALDI-TOF MS图,对基质与分析物比例进行优化,重点分析了少量残余硫酸对质谱结果的影响。结果表明:在反射模式下,样品制备选择基质/分析物比例为20:1可获得较佳的质谱信号;样品中含有少量硫酸能够改善分析物与基质的结晶效果,减少脱羧作用的发生,降低氨基碎片丢失的几率,使得H/Na和H/K交换现象发生的几率降低,从而改善质谱信噪比,提高分析可靠性。     

蛋白质组学中基质辅助激光解吸电离的基质研究进展

基质辅助激光解吸电离(MALDI)技术是近年来发展起来的新的质谱离子化技术。本文较为系统地综述了应用于蛋白质组学中的MALDI基质的最新进展以及不同的基质的优缺点及应用范围,并且归纳了其发展趋势。     

基质辅助激光解析/电离飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF MS)在微生物鉴定中的应用*

基质辅助激光解析/电离飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF MS)是一种新型软电离生物质谱,具有检测速度快、操作简便、结果准确等优点,目前已成为可靠的微生物快速鉴定技术。就工作流程而言,与常规生化方法相比,MALDI-TOF MS可以将微生物鉴定的时间缩短为一天甚至更短。对于具有抗生素耐药性的微生物,使用MALDI-TOF MS鉴定也有很好的准确性。在病毒鉴定中,MALDI-TOF MS也可以发挥作用,已有报道将MALDI-TOF MS和机器学习(ML)分析方法结合来检测鼻拭子中SARS-CoV-2。此外,MALDI-TOF MS还可用于细菌的无光谱库鉴定。目前,MALDI-TOF MS正通过与其他技术(例如傅里叶红外光谱FTIR)相结合进一步扩大微生物鉴定范围。     

New matrix of MALDI-TOF MS for analysis of small molecules

New matrix, metal-phthalocyanine (MPc), of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) was used for analysis of small molecules (usually <500 Da). By using MPcs as matrices, small molecular samples were moved to high mass-to-charge region where there was no interference caused by the traditional matrices. The mass of the target analyte was obtained by simple calculation.     

Discrimination of Thermoplastic Polyesters by MALDI-TOF MS and Py-GC/MS

The aim of this work is to discriminate thermoplastic polyester-polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), and polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT), which cannot be easily identified by many methods. Both matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and pyrolysis gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) were applied to identify these polyesters owing to their analytical ability to determining polymers' chemical structure. The three thermoplastic polyesters can be easily distinguished by MALDI-TOF MS according to their different repeated units. Py-GC/MS was used to analyze their specific pyrolyzates. The three polyesters can be identified through their characteristic pyrolysis products as well.     

Structural deviations in poly(amidoamine) dendrimers: a MALDI-TOF MS analysis

A step-by-step synthesis/purification (CC, HILIC, HPLC) of poly(amidoamine) PAMAM dendrimers was performed. MALDI-TOF MS in the linear and reflectron mode was used to analyze the purified samples and byproduct samples of G0-G5 generations of the dendrimers up to the mass of 35 000 Da. DHB/fucose was found to give the best resolution, causing the least fragmentation of the samples. The precise mass number for the ideally branched dendrimers and their “structural errors” was obtained. The profile of the structural errors was established.     

Refolding of reduced/denatured bovine pancreatic insulin with ion-exchange chromatography coupled with MALDI-TOF MS

The refolding of the reduced/denatured insulin from bovine pancreas as the model protein was investigated with weak anion exchange chromatography(WAX) coupled with MALDI-TOF MS.The results indicated that the disulfide bonds almost cannot be formed correctly with the common mobile phase by WAX.However,with the urea gradient elution and in the presence of GSSG/ Cyst as the ratio 1:6 in the mobile phase employed,the disulfide exchange of reduced/denatured insulin can be accelerated resulting in forming the ...     

Subunit Characteristics of Pig Pancreas Ferritin Revealed by MALDI-TOF MS and RP-HPLC

Pig pancreas ferritin（PPF） was purified by ultra-centrifugation, ion-exchange chromatography, and native gradient polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis（PAGENG）. Sodium dodecyl sulfate（SDS）-PAGE indicates that PPF consists of two subunit types, namely, H（21000） and L（19000） subunits, and its core shows an average element composition of 1698 Fe3＋ and 179 phosphate molecules within the hollow shell, giving a 9.5：1 ratio of Fe3＋ to phosphate. An off line approach combining reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography（RP-HPLC） with matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry（MALDI-TOF MS） made the decomposition of PPF shell into H and L subunits for the analysis of mass spectrometry（MS）, giving molecular weights of both H（21014.4） and L（18319.9） subunits. Both subunit types were further identified by an approach combining peptide mass fingerprint（PMF） with database search. A ratio of 1H to 2L subunits in PPF was determined by SDS-PAGE, RP-HPLC, and MALDI-TOF MS, respectively. It is well known that the non-covalent interaction of L-L or H-L subunits is stronger than that of H-H subunits in PPF, which may be further used to explain the unclear physiological function between H and L subunits in PPF.     

Synthesis and MALDI-TOF MS Analysis of Protected Oligosaccharide Components of N-Glycoproteins

Essential components of N-glycoproteins were synthesized in octyl glycoside form starting from 3-O-allyl-D-glucose derivative. The β-mannosidic linkage was formed by the oxidation reduction method. MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and its post-source decay (PSD) mode were used for identification and structural elucidation of protected synthetic oligosaccharides related to N-glycoproteins. Most fragments, identified in the PSD spectra, were products of the cleavage of glycosidic bonds.     

Use of MALDI-TOF MS to Discriminate between Aflatoxin B1-Producing and Non-Producing Strains of Aspergillus flavus

Aflatoxin B₁ (AFB₁) is one of the most toxic mycotoxins. One of the producers of AFB₁ is Aspergillus flavus. Therefore, its rapid identification plays a key role in various sectors of the food and feed industry. MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry is one of the fastest and most accurate methods today. Therefore, the aim of this research was to develop the rapid identification of producing and non-producing strains of A. flavus based on the entire mass spectrum. To accomplish the main goal a different confirmatory MALDI-TOF MS and TLC procedures such as direct AFB₁ identification by scraping from TLC plates, A. flavus mycelium, nutrient media around A. flavus growth, and finally direct AFB₁ identification from infected wheat and barley grains had to be conducted. In this experiment, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry with various modifications was the main supporting technology. All confirmatory methods confirmed the presence of AFB₁ in the samples of aflatoxin-producing strains of A. flavus and vice versa; AFB₁ was not detected in the case of non-producing strains. Entire mass spectra (from 2 to 20 kDa) of aflatoxin-producing and non-producing A. flavus strains were collected, statistically analyzed and clustered. An in-depth analysis of the obtained entire mass spectra showed differences between AFB₁-producing and non-producing strains of A. flavus. Statistical and cluster analysis divided AFB₁-producing and non-producing strains of A. flavus into two monasteries. The results indicate that it is possible to distinguish between AFB₁ producers and non-producers by comparing the entire mass spectra using MALDI-TOF MS. Finally, we demonstrated that if there are established local AFB₁-producing and non-producing strains of A. flavus, the entire mass spectrum database identification of aflatoxigenic A. flavus strains can be even faster and cheaper, without the need to identify the toxin itself.     

Poly(10-undecene-1-ol) characterized by MALDI-TOF MS and NMR spectroscopy

Poly(10-undecene-1-ol)s were synthesized by metallocene-catalyzed polymerization. MALDI-TOF MS allows obtaining detailed information on the monomer units in the polymer chains and the nature of the head and end groups of these polymers in dependence on the Al alkyl triisobutyl aluminum (TIBA) as well as methylalumoxan (MAO), both used as protecting agent for the hydroxyl groups of the monomer. The peak-to-peak distances of the main peaks could be distinctly assigned to the monomer unit 10-undecene-1-ol. Evaluating the MALDI-TOF peak distributions, polymers with -H, -C₄H₉, -CH₃ head groups in combination with vinylidene and saturated (–CH₃) end groups could be detected. By ¹H NMR spectroscopy, it was verified that with the used catalysts polymers with vinylidene end groups were obtained predominantly. The presence of saturated end groups could be proved qualitatively by combination of ¹H and ¹³C NMR spectroscopy for polymers produced by TIBA protection, which strikingly confirm the results from MALDI-TOF MS. For the polymers prepared with only MAO protection, saturated groups are also proved but discrimination between head and end groups was not possible. A polymerization mechanism corresponding to the detected different head and end groups is proposed.