Nocardia species are difficult to identify, a consequence of the ever increasing number of species known and their homogeneous genetic characteristics. 16S rRNA analysis has been the gold standard for identifying these organisms, but proteomic techniques such as matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF MS) and housekeeping gene analysis, have also been explored. One...

Reported matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) identification rates of Gram-positive rods (GPR) are low compared to identification rates of Gram-positive cocci. In this study, three sample preparation methods were compared for MALDI-TOF MS identification of 190 well-characterized GPR strains: direct transfer, direct transfer-formic acid prep...

Mass spectrometry has brought unprecedented possibilities in the field of proteomics. The advances obtained in the last 10 years have been outstanding and have enabled faster and more reliable data acquisition and comparison. One powerful method developed was the matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry profiling (MALDI-TOF MS profiling) approach, primarily u...

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) fingerprinting is a fast and reliable method for the classification and identification of microorganisms, with applications in clinical diagnostics, environmental and taxonomical research, or food-processing quality control. The BioTyperTM MALDI-TOF MS fingerprinting system allows researchers to perform ...

We compared the diagnostic accuracy of the Carba NP test with that of a straightforward matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) method for detecting carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE). Using PCR as the reference method, both tests demonstrated a sensitivity of 87% and a specificity of 100%. MALDI-TOF MS offers a potential alterna...

The term “proteome” refers to the total of all proteins expressed in an organism. “proteomics” field research that includes not only information on expression levels individual proteins, but also their higher-order structures, intermolecular interactions, and post-translational modifications. core technology, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS), is available...

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS), which provides high sensitivity and resolution, has been used for the analysis of biopolymers. In past decade, MALDI-TOF MS utilized in clinical fields around world to identify microbial species. However, serotype or strain discrimination same bacterial species is difficult by MS. Different methods such...

We evaluated the usefulness of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) for Cryptococcus identification at the species and subspecies levels by using an in-house database of 25 reference cryptococcal spectra. Eighty-one out of the 82 Cryptococcus isolates (72 Cryptococcus neoformans and 10 Cryptococcus gattii) tested were correctly identified w...

Introduction The discovery stage of proteome profiling typically involves the comparison of different states of a cell or tissue. One approach utilizes fractionation of the proteome into intact proteins, followed by mass spectrometry (MS) analysis. This paper will describe the combined benefits of an advanced two-dimensional, liquid chromatographic fractionation system, the ProteomeLab PF 2D, w...

Recently, we demonstrated that a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MALDI-TOF MS) can be used to determine the molecular weight of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products of intact 16S rRNA regions and to profile their restriction digests. This is the first time that MALDI-TOF MS with ultraviolet (UV) photoionization has been used to analyze a PCR pro...