MicrobiologyFrontiers in Cellular and Infection MicrobiologyPeer-reviewed
Mass Spectrometric Profiling of Microbial Polysaccharides Using Laser Desorption/Ionization - Time-of-Flight (LDI-TOF) and Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS): A Novel Method for Structural Fingerprinting and Derivatization
Lucia Dadovska, Veronika Paskova, Petr Novák, Jaroslav Hrabák
This paper develops a method to detect microbial polysaccharides using derivatization and mass spectrometry without a MALDI matrix, validated with bacterial lipopolysaccharides and crude bacterial samples.