Larrouy-Maumus G. Shotgun Bacterial Lipid A Analysis Using Routine MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry.
Methods Mol Biol 2021;
2306:275-283. [PMID:
33954953 DOI:
10.1007/978-1-0716-1410-5_18]
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Abstract
Detection of bacterial lipids and particularly the lipid A, the lipid anchor of the lipopolysaccharide, can be very challenging and requires a certain level of expertise. Here, this chapter describes a straightforward and simple method for the analysis of bacterial lipid A. In addition, such approach, lipid fingerprint, has the potential to be applied to other bacteria such as mycobacteria.
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