Direct Analysis of Triterpenes from High-Salt Fermented Cucumbers Using Infrared Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Electrospray Ionization (IR-MALDESI)
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- 作者：Måns Ekelöf ; Erin K. McMurtrie ; Milad Nazari…
- 关键词：Food preservation ; IR ; MALDESI ; Mass spectrometry imaging ; Phytosterols ; Direct analysis ; HRAM ; Fermented vegetable composition ; Q Exactive
- 刊名：Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：28
- 期：2
- 页码：370-375
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- 刊物主题：Analytical Chemistry; Biotechnology; Organic Chemistry; Proteomics; Bioinformatics;
- 出版者：Springer US
- ISSN：1879-1123
- 卷排序：28
文摘
High-salt samples present a challenge to mass spectrometry (MS) analysis, particularly when electrospray ionization (ESI) is used, requiring extensive sample preparation steps such as desalting, extraction, and purification. In this study, infrared matrix-assisted laser desorption electrospray ionization (IR-MALDESI) coupled to a Q Exactive Plus mass spectrometer was used to directly analyze 50-μm thick slices of cucumber fermented and stored in 1 M sodium chloride brine. From the several hundred unique substances observed, three triterpenoid lipids produced by cucumbers, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, and lupeol, were putatively identified based on exact mass and selected for structural analysis. The spatial distribution of the lipids were imaged, and the putative assignments were confirmed by tandem mass spectrometry performed directly on the same cucumber, demonstrating the capacity of the technique to deliver confident identifications from highly complex samples in molar concentrations of salt without the need for sample preparation.