Journal
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 24, Issue 8, Pages 1194-1201Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-013-0609-x
Keywords
Antibiotic resistance; Bacteria; MALDI; Biomarker; Isotope labeling; Algorithm
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- JHU/APL
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A rapid method to determine drug resistance in bacteria based on mass spectrometry is presented. In it, a mass spectrum of an intact microorganism grown in drug-containing stable isotope-labeled media is compared with a mass spectrum of the intact microorganism grown in non-labeled media without the drug present. Drug resistance is determined by predicting characteristic mass shifts of one or more microorganism biomarkers using bioinformatics algorithms. Observing such characteristic mass shifts indicates that the microorganism is viable even in the presence of the drug, thus incorporating the isotopic label into characteristic biomarker molecules. The performance of the method is illustrated on the example of intact E. coli, grown in control (unlabeled) and C-13-labeled media, and analyzed by MALDI TOF MS. Algorithms for data analysis are presented as well.
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