background: cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) is endemic in southeastern anatolia, mainly in sanliurfa and hatay provinces, and the causative agents are mostly leishmania tropica and less frequently l. infantum . here, we report the first mal-di-tof analyses of leishmania promastigotes obtained from the cultures of two cl cases from osmaniye and hatay provinces who were initially diagnosed by micros...

Background and Purpose Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is a common problem in women. The purpose of this study was to identify of Candida species isolated from vulvovaginitis woman suffering vulvovaginitis refered to Ghaem Hospital, Mashhad, Iran, by use of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.  Materials and Methods The 65 clinical samples isolated from Vulvovaginitis women were collected in...

objective(s):small ubiquitin-like modifiers (sumos) are a family of ubiquitin-related, proteins that are involved in a wide variety of signaling pathways. sumoylation, as a vital post translational modification, regulate protein function in manycellular processes. diazinon (dzn), an organophosphate insecticide, causses oxidative stress and subsequently programmed cell death in different tissues...

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) is a rapidly growing method in the life sciences. However, for many analyte classes, its sensitivity limited due to poor ionization efficiencies. To mitigate this problem, we here introduce novel post-ionization scheme based on single-photon induced chemical using pulsed RF-Kr lamps. The fine-vacuum conditions of ...

We report a study of the application of delayed extraction (DE) to infrared-wavelength matrix-assisted time-of-flight mass spectrometry (IR-MALDI-TOF-MS) of proteins. The shapes of the spectral peaks obtained with DE-IR-MALDI-MS are compared with those obtained from the same samples and matrix using continuous extraction (CE) IR-MALDI-MS. Application of DE results in significant improvements in...

We report the development of a robust interface for off-line coupling of nano liquid chromatography (LC) to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation-mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) and its application to the analysis of proteolytic digests of proteins, both isolated and in mixtures. The interface makes use of prestructured MALDI sample supports to concentrate the effluent to a small sample plat...

While pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) is recognized as the gold standard method for clonality analysis, MALDI-TOF MS has recently been spotlighted as an alternative tool for species identification. Herein, we compared the dendrograms of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii isolates by using MALDI-TOF MS with those by using PFGE. We used direct colony and protein extraction...

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) is a common molecular modality used to characterise the abundance and spatial distribution of lipids in situ. There are several technical challenges predominantly involving sample pre-treatment preparation which have complicated analysis clinical tissues by MALDI-MSI. Firstly, embedding samples optimal cutting tem...