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Differentiation of Cystic Fibrosis-Related Pathogens by Volatile Organic Compound Analysis with Secondary Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry
oleh: Jérôme Kaeslin, Srdjan Micic, Ronja Weber, Simona Müller, Nathan Perkins, Christoph Berger, Renato Zenobi, Tobias Bruderer, Alexander Moeller
Format: | Article |
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Diterbitkan: | MDPI AG 2021-11-01 |
Deskripsi
Identifying and differentiating bacteria based on their emitted volatile organic compounds (VOCs) opens vast opportunities for rapid diagnostics. Secondary electrospray ionization high-resolution mass spectrometry (SESI-HRMS) is an ideal technique for VOC-biomarker discovery because of its speed, sensitivity towards polar molecules and compound characterization possibilities. Here, an in vitro SESI-HRMS workflow to find biomarkers for cystic fibrosis (CF)-related pathogens <i>P. aeruginosa</i>, <i>S. pneumoniae</i>, <i>S. aureus</i>, <i>H. influenzae</i>, <i>E. coli</i> and <i>S. maltophilia</i> is described. From 180 headspace samples, the six pathogens are distinguishable in the first three principal components and predictive analysis with a support vector machine algorithm using leave-one-out cross-validation exhibited perfect accuracy scores for the differentiation between the groups. Additionally, 94 distinctive features were found by recursive feature elimination and further characterized by SESI-MS/MS, which yielded 33 putatively identified biomarkers. In conclusion, the six pathogens can be distinguished in vitro based on their VOC profiles as well as the herein reported putative biomarkers. In the future, these putative biomarkers might be helpful for pathogen detection in vivo based on breath samples from patients with CF.