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Stratigaki M, Armirotti A, Ottonello G, Manente S, Traviglia A. Fungal and bacterial species richness in biodeteriorated seventeenth century Venetian manuscripts. Sci Rep 2024; 14:7003. [PMID: 38523163 PMCID: PMC10961312 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-57228-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 03/26/2024] Open
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Historical paper documents are susceptible to complex degradation processes, including biodeterioration, which can progressively compromise their aesthetic and structural integrity. This study analyses seventeenth century handwritten historical letters stored at the Correr Museum Library in Venice, Italy, exhibiting pronounced signs of biodeterioration. The techniques used encompassed traditional colony isolation on agar plates and proteomics analyses, employing nanoscale liquid chromatography coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry (nano-LC-MS). Fluorescence microscopy was used for the first time in the historical paper biodeterioration context to supplement the conventional stereoscopic, optical, and scanning electron microscopic imaging techniques. This method enables the visualisation of microorganisms beyond and beneath the paper's surface through their natural intrinsic autofluorescence in a non-invasive and non-destructive way. The results demonstrate a diverse, complex, and abundant microbiota composed of coexisting fungal and bacterial species (Ascomycota, Mucoromycota, Basidiomycota, Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria), along with mite carcasses, insects, parasites, and possibly protists. Furthermore, this study reveals certain species that were not previously documented in the biodeterioration of historical paper, including human pathogens, such as Histoplasma capsulatum, Brucella, Candida albicans, and species of Aspergillus (A. flavus, A. fumigatus, A. oryzae, A. terreus, A. niger) known to cause infections or produce mycotoxins, posing substantial risk to both artefacts and humans.
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- Maria Stratigaki
- Center for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Torino 155, 30172, Venice, Italy.
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- Analytical Chemistry Facility, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163, Genoa, Italy
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- Analytical Chemistry Facility, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via Torino 155, 30172, Venice, Italy
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- Center for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Torino 155, 30172, Venice, Italy
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Scibè C, Eng-Wilmot K, Lam T, Tosini I, López MJG, Solazzo C. Palaeoproteomics and microanalysis reveal techniques of production of animal-based metal threads in medieval textiles. Sci Rep 2024; 14:5320. [PMID: 38438441 PMCID: PMC10912450 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-54480-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024] Open
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Animal-based metal threads were largely used between the 10th and the fifteenth century, in European, Middle Eastern and Far Eastern textile productions for the decoration of textiles and cloths. They belong to a larger group of metal threads, used either as flat threads or wrapped around a fiber core, that were backed by an organic support (animal or paper). This study focuses on the medieval production of metal threads backed by an animal membrane (e.g. gut membrane), or skin. A total of 91 samples were collected from a corpus of 66 textile fragments belonging to 54 catalogued objects. The relevance and novelty of the present study is represented by the combination of proteomics, cross-section analysis, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM-EDS and SEM-µXRF). The diversity of materials and manufacturing techniques found within each typology of thread, respectively, membrane-based metal threads and skin-based metal threads, hinted at different production technologies. Membrane-based threads were found to be invariably made from cattle gut membrane, coated with gilt-silver leaves. A possible sheep glue adhesive was found in a few samples. Skin-based threads were made from either goat or sheep leather, coated with metal leaves or powder. Within the three different types of coatings identified (silver, gold and gilt-silver), gold coatings were the most represented. Goat leather threads were associated with an egg-white binder, while sturgeon glue was identified as adhesive in all sheep leather threads. Collagen glue from other species (cattle, sheep, horse) was occasionally found in mixed adhesives. In two textiles, the finding of human proteins indicates past contamination due to handling or use. The analytical results show coherence between the fabrication patterns of animal-based metal threads and their probable geographical areas of manufacture, indicating that the study of materials and techniques provide further criteria to classify and group textiles, and trace correlations between manufacturing centers within Eurasian territories.
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- Cristina Scibè
- Programa de Doctorado Arte y Patrimonio, Escuela Internacional de Doctorado (EIDUS), Universidad de Sevilla, P de Las Delicias s/n, 41003, Sevilla, Spain.
- Scientific Laboratory Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD), Viale F. Strozzi 1, 50129, Firenze, Italy.
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- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2 E 91st St, New York, NY, 10128, USA
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- Museum Conservation Institute (MCI), Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD, 20746, USA
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- Scientific Laboratory Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD), Viale F. Strozzi 1, 50129, Firenze, Italy
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- Departamento de Pintura, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Sevilla, C/ Laraña 3, 41003, Sevilla, Spain
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- Museum Conservation Institute (MCI), Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD, 20746, USA.
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Pittalà MG, Di Francesco A, Cucina A, Saletti R, Zilberstein G, Zilberstein S, Arhire T, Righetti PG, Cunsolo V. Count Dracula Resurrected: Proteomic Analysis of Vlad III the Impaler's Documents by EVA Technology and Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2023; 95:12732-12744. [PMID: 37552208 PMCID: PMC10469356 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c01461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
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The interest of scientists in analyzing items of World Cultural Heritage has been exponentially increasing since the beginning of the new millennium. These studies have grown considerably in tandem with the development and use of sophisticated and sensitive technologies such as high-resolution mass spectrometry (MS) and the non-invasive and non-damaging technique, known under the acronym EVA (ethylene-vinyl acetate). Here, we report the results of the MS characterization of the peptides and proteins harvested by the EVA technology applied to three letters written in 1457 and 1475 by the voivode of Wallachia, Vlad III, also known as Vlad the Impaler, or Vlad Dracula. The discrimination of the "original" endogenous peptides from contaminant ones was obtained by monitoring their different levels of deamidation and of other diagenetic chemical modifications. The characterization of the ancient proteins extracted from these documents allowed us to explore the environmental conditions, in the second half of the 15th century, of the Wallachia, a region considered as a meeting point for soldiers, migrants, and travelers that probably carried not only trade goods and cultural traditions but also diseases and epidemics. In addition, the identification of many human peptides and proteins harvested from the letters allowed us to uncover more about Vlad Dracula the Impaler. Particularly, the experimental data show that he probably suffered from inflammatory processes of the respiratory tract and/or of the skin. In addition, proteomics data, although not exhaustive, suggest that, according to some stories, he might also have suffered from a pathological condition called hemolacria, that is, he could shed tears admixed with blood. It is worth noting that more medieval people may have touched these documents, which cannot be denied, but it is also presumable that the most prominent ancient proteins should be related to Prince Vlad the Impaler, who wrote and signed these letters. The data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange with the identifier ⟨PXD041350⟩.
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- Maria
Gaetana Giovanna Pittalà
- Laboratory
of Organic Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, Catania 95125, Italy
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- Laboratory
of Organic Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, Catania 95125, Italy
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- Laboratory
of Organic Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, Catania 95125, Italy
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- Laboratory
of Organic Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, Catania 95125, Italy
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- SpringStyle
Tech Design Ltd, Oppenheimer
7, Rehovot 7670107, Israel
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- Sibiu
County Department of Romania National Archives, Strada Arhivelor 3, Sibiu 557260, Romania
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- Department
of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering ‘‘Giulio
Natta’’, Politecnico di Milano, Via Mancinelli 7, Milano 20131, Italy
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- Laboratory
of Organic Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, Catania 95125, Italy
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Zilberstein G, Zilberstein R, Zilberstein S, Maor U, Cohen-Ofri I, Shor P, Bitler T, Riestra B, Righetti PG. Proteomics and metabolomics composition of the ink of a letter in a fragment of a Dead Sea Scroll from Cave 11 (P1032-Fr0). J Proteomics 2021; 249:104370. [PMID: 34517122 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2021.104370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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It is well established that the ink pigment used for writing the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) is mainly composed of carbon soot. The ink's binder however has yet to be securely identified. By applying EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate containing strong anion and cation exchangers admixed with C8 and C18) diskettes on one fragment and analyzing the captured material, the following study was able to determine the composition of the binder. Proteins admixed of plant proteins (ribulose biphosphate carboxylase, rhamnogalacturonate lyase, α-galactosidase A, calmodulin, among those identified) as well as of a few glycoproteins with different combinations of pentosyl and hexosyl units with plant acids (stearic, palmitic, oleic, linoleic and linolenic acids) and terpenes (triacontanol, catechin, lupeol) are mixed attributes of acacia trees which suggests the use of gum Arabic as the ink's binder. SIGNIFICANCE: Whereas a huge body of reports has explored any possible aspect of the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the dating and the animal origin of the parchment, one aspect had not been investigated so far, namely which kind of ligand had been adopted to ensure a firm binding of the ink (in reality carbon soot) to the supporting parchment. In the present investigation it has been demonstrated that this "glue" is a mixture of plant proteins, as well as a few glycoproteins, together with plant acids and terpenes. These proteins and metabolites belong to two species of trees, Vachellia nilotica and Acacia Albida, widespread in this Middle East region. The EVA methodology here adopted has shown that it is possible to explore any item pertaining to the world Cultural Heritage in the absence of damage or contamination thus permititng to analyze any possible precious document stored in museum, public libraries and private collections.
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- Spectrophon Ltd, Oppenheimer 7, Rehovot 7670107, Israel
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- Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Via Mancinelli 7, Milano 20131, Italy.
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Rosenbloom M. The books are alive with biological data: an introduction to the field of biocodicology and its implications for historical health sciences collections. J Med Libr Assoc 2021; 109:336-338. [PMID: 34285678 PMCID: PMC8270372 DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2021.1080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Recent global events have underscored the need for broad access to digitized library special collections. At the same time, a burgeoning field of scientific and historical inquiry is finding a goldmine of data in the physical old books and manuscripts stored for centuries on library shelves. This article gives an overview of some of the interesting studies employing library materials in the new field of biocodicology, which expands the field of codicology (learning about book history through studying a copy's physical attributes, sometimes referred to as “archaeology of the book”) to interrogate physical books with proteomic, genomic, and microbiomic tools. Historical health sciences collections provide rich, new research avenues for budding biocodicologists, and biocodicology and other interdisciplinary fields focused on material culture present an unforeseen justification for institutions' continued preservation and access to individual physical copies.
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- Megan Rosenbloom
- , Collection Strategies Librarian, UCLA Library, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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Fiddyment S, Goodison NJ, Brenner E, Signorello S, Price K, Collins MJ. Girding the loins? Direct evidence of the use of a medieval English parchment birthing girdle from biomolecular analysis. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2021; 8:202055. [PMID: 33959357 PMCID: PMC8074970 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.202055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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In this paper, we describe palaeoproteomic evidence obtained from a stained medieval birth girdle using a previously developed dry non-invasive sampling technique. The parchment birth girdle studied (Wellcome Collection Western MS. 632) was made in England in the late fifteenth century and was thought to be used by pregnant women while giving birth. We were able to extract both human and non-human peptides from the manuscript, including evidence for the use of honey, cereals, ovicaprine milk and legumes. In addition, a large number of human peptides were detected on the birth roll, many of which are found in cervico-vaginal fluid. This suggests that the birth roll was actively used during childbirth. This study is, to our knowledge, the first to extract and analyse non-collagenous peptides from a birth girdle using this sampling method and demonstrates the potential of this type of analysis for stained manuscripts, providing direct biomolecular evidence for active use.
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- Sarah Fiddyment
- The McDonald Institute, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of English Studies, Durham University, Hallgarth House, 77 Hallgarth Street, Durham DH1 1AY, UK
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- Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, Bloomsbury, London NW1 2BE, UK
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- Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, Bloomsbury, London NW1 2BE, UK
- Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX, UK
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- The McDonald Institute, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Evogenomics, The Globe Institute Department of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Sølvgade 83, København K, Denmark
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New baits for fishing in cultural heritage's Mare Magnum. J Proteomics 2021; 235:104113. [PMID: 33453435 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2021.104113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2020] [Revised: 01/05/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We describe here a modern tool for exploring documents pertaining to the world Cultural Heritage while avoiding their contamination or damage. Known under the acronym EVA, it consists of a plastic foil of Ethylene Vinyl Acetate studded with strong cation and anion resins admixed with C8 and C18 hydrophobic beads. When applied to any surface such foils can harvest any type of surface material, which is then eluted and analyzed via standard means, such as GS/MS (typically for metabolites), MS/MS (for peptide and protein analysis), X-ray (for elemental analysis). We briefly review here a number of past data, such as screening of original documents by Bulgakov, Chekov, Casanova, Kepler, while dealing in extenso with very recent data, pertaining to Orwell and Stalin and analysis of the skin of an Egyptian mummy. The technique was also successfully applied to paintings, such as the Donna Nuda at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, attributed to Leonardo and his school. This novel methodology represents a formidable tool for exploring the past life of famous authors, scientist and literates in that it can detect traces of their pathologies and even drug consumption left by saliva and sweat traces on their original hand-written documents.
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Zilberstein G, Zilberstein S, Righetti PG. Stalin's "black dog": a postmortem diagnosis. Anal Bioanal Chem 2020; 412:7701-7708. [PMID: 32876722 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02914-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2020] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Undoubtedly, the two leaders who were under enormous pressure during World War II (WWII) were Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin' since their respective countries had to sustain most of the war weight, at least in Europe. Lord Moran recounted in his memoir Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival that he had diagnosed a middle-aged Churchill with bipolar disorder. Churchill himself often referred to his periods of intense and prolonged depression as his "black dog." On the contrary, not much is known about Stalin's mental conditions, although in 1927 the neurologist V. M. Bekhterev, the day prior to his sudden death, upon a long examination of the leader's mental status, declared that he had found him affected by paranoia. No chemical evidence via clinical chemistry analyses was provided for the two leaders, though. We have had access to the collection of books (stored in the Russian Government Archive of Social and Political History, RGASPI, of the former Institute of Marxism and Leninism under the Central Committee of the USSR Communist Party) that Stalin was reading during WWII, with pages containing personal annotations on the margins. Upon harvesting surface material via EVA disks (ethylene-vinyl acetate studded with strong cation and anion exchangers and C8-C18 resins) and instrumental analysis via X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, we detected lithium levels (~ 100 ± 8 ng/cm2) compatible with those present in the sweat and/or saliva of patients treated with lithium salts for curing bipolarity and paranoia or probably gout. These data are the first clear indication that Stalin was under cure for this pathology.Graphical abstract.
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- Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Via Mancinelli 7, 20131, Milan, Italy.
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Zilberstein G, Zilberstein S, Maor U, Righetti PG. Surface analysis of ancient parchments via the EVA film: The Aleppo Codex. Anal Biochem 2020; 604:113824. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2020.113824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2020] [Revised: 06/07/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Righetti PG, Zilberstein G, Zilberstein S. EVA Technology and Proteomics: A Two-Pronged Attack on Cultural Heritage. J Proteome Res 2020; 19:2914-2925. [PMID: 32442381 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A novel way for exploring the world's cultural heritage in the absence of damage or contamination (such as removing pigments in paintings or chipping away pieces of bones) of the items under investigation is here reported, called the EVA technique. It is based on films of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) impregnated with strong anion and cation exchangers, admixed with hydrophobic resins, C8 and C18. When in contact with any surface these films can harvest nanomoles of macromolecules (proteins and DNA) as well as metabolites, which can then be identified by standard instrumentation. Some important applications are reported, such as the findings of the renal pathology and assumption of morphine in the original manuscript of Master I Margarita by Bulgakov, the presence of TBC bacterium in Chekhov's shirt and in a letter by Orwell, the Y. pestis and anthrax bacteria in the death registries of Milan's lazaretto in the 1630 plague bout, as well as ample traces of five metals in Kepler's manuscripts, suggesting his potential practice of alchemy. Also, in the pages of the Memoirs of Casanova, although the gonorrhea bacterium could not be found, spots of HgS could be measured, suggesting its use for curing the disease. A family of EVA films is described, enlarging its use to dedicated applications, such as the capture of drugs of abuse in the pages of famous writers and even in the paintings of fauvists. It is hoped that the present methodology could open the doors of museums, state archives, and private collections for detecting biological traces left by artists, literates, and men of culture in their masterpieces.
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- Pier Giorgio Righetti
- Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "'Giulio Natta"', Politecnico di Milano, Via Mancinelli 7, Milano 20131, Italy
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Saravayskaya Y, Zilberstein G, Zilberstein R, Zilberstein S, Maor U, D'Amato A, Righetti PG. "1984": What Orwell could not predict. Proteomic analysis of his scripts. Electrophoresis 2020; 41:1931-1940. [PMID: 32459049 DOI: 10.1002/elps.202000063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2020] [Revised: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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George Orwell, fighter for the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War, was shot through the throat by a sniper on 20th May 1937 and nearly killed. After receiving only a summary external treatment, on the 29th, he was cured in a Barcelona hospital where he was infected by the Koch bacillus. After fleeing from Spain on 23rd June 1937, he repaired to his cottage in Wallington, Hertfordshire, wherefrom he wrote a letter to Sergey Dynamov, Editor of Soviet journal "Foreign Literature." This typewritten letter was analyzed by application of five EVA strips (ethylene vinyl acetate studded with strong cation and anion and with C8 and C18 resins; four on the corners and one over his signature), searching for biological traces. Upon elution of the captured biologicals, trypsin digestion and Orbitrap Fusion trihybrid mass spectrometer analyses, three of the five strips yielded clear traces of six unique proteins (via proteotypic peptides) of the tuberculosis bacterium. Additionally, MALDI TOF analysis of saliva of a tuberculosis patient and the EVA strip eluates gave a spectrum of 14 peptide bands (Mr 2700 to 6700 Da range) coincident between the two samples, thus, fully confirming Orwell's pathology. These results are attributed to saliva traces on Orwell's fingertips and to the fact that the letter was written on 2nd July 1937, when Orwell's pathology was at its peak.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
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Zilberstein G, Zilberstein S, Maor U, Baskin E, D'Amato A, Righetti PG. De re metallica. Johannes Kepler and alchemy. Talanta 2019; 204:82-88. [DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2019.05.094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2019] [Revised: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 05/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Righetti PG, Zilberstein G, D’Amato A. What Sherlock sorely missed: the EVA technology for cultural heritage exploration. Expert Rev Proteomics 2019; 16:533-542. [DOI: 10.1080/14789450.2019.1624164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- Pier Giorgio Righetti
- Politecnico di Milano, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering ‘‘Giulio Natta’’, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
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Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux
pour Casanova: Chemical‐ and bio‐analysis of his
Memoirs. Electrophoresis 2019; 40:3050-3056. [DOI: 10.1002/elps.201800505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Revised: 03/25/2019] [Accepted: 03/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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