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ArticleRapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM2013

Development and optimization of a gas chromatography/mass spectrometry method for the analysis of thermochemolytic degradation products of phthiocerol dimycocerosate waxes found in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Simona C Nicoara, David E Minnikin, Oona C Y Lee, Denise M O'Sullivan, Ruth McNerney, Collin T Pillinger, Ian P Wright, Geraint H Morgan

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Article in Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Simona C NicoaraDepartment of Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK.
David E Minnikin
Oona C Y Lee
Denise M O'Sullivan
Ruth McNerney
Collin T Pillinger
Ian P Wright
Geraint H Morgan
The Open University · GBLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · GBUniversity of Birmingham · GB

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Wellcome Trust 083597
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

rationaleThe phthiocerol dimycocerosates (PDIMs) are certain stable and hydrophobic waxes found in the cell membrane of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, bacteria that cause an infectious disease of growing concern worldwide. Previous studies report the analysis of derivatives of the hydrolysed PDIMs from biological samples, following complex extraction and offline derivatization of PDIMs biomarkers, prior to their analysis by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS).

methodsWe developed and optimized a GC/MS method based on selected ion monitoring (SIM) to detect the derivatives produced via the thermally assisted hydrolysis and methylation (THM) of the PDIMs from the cell membrane of M. tuberculosis. The extraction of PDIMs from culture is simple, and their thermochemolysis is carried out automatically online, thus avoiding the time-consuming derivatization steps of hydrolysis and esterification, usually performed offline.

resultsFor standard PDIMs in petroleum ether, our optimized method gave an excellent linearity (R(2) = 0.99) at concentrations between 0.172 and 27.5 ng/mL, a good precision (RSD = 11.42%), and a limit of detection (LOD) of 100 pg/mL. For the PDIMs extracted from dilutions of M. tuberculosis culture, the method gave good linearity (R(2) = 0.9685) and an estimated LOD of 400 CFU/mL (CFU = colony forming units) in sterile distilled water.

conclusionsA GC/MS(SIM) method is presented for the rapid and quantitative detection of M. tuberculosis, based on the online thermochemolysis of lipidic biomarkers extracted from the bacterial culture. The method has the potential to be applied in human and veterinary clinical laboratories for the rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis in infected biological samples.

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Antigens, BacterialGas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryHumansHydrolysisLimit of DetectionLipidsMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisAntigens, BacterialLipidsphthiocerol dimycocerosate

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PMCPMC3824232
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