Rapid identification of Legionella spp. by MALDI-TOF MS based protein mass fingerprinting.

Gaia, Valeria and Casati, Simona and Tonolla, Mauro (2011) Rapid identification of Legionella spp. by MALDI-TOF MS based protein mass fingerprinting. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 34 (1). pp. 40-44. ISSN 1618-0984

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Abstract

A set of reference strains representing 38 different Legionella species were submitted to Whole Cell Mass Spectrometry (WCMS) with MALDI-TOF. The dendrogram computed from strain mass spectral patterns obtained by WCMS was compared to the phylogenetic tree obtained from macrophage infectivity potentiator (mip) sequences. The trees inferred from these two methods revealed significant homologies. Using 453 Legionella isolates previously characterized by genotyping, it was possible to create species-specific SuperSpectra, using appropriate sets of spectral masses, allowing unambiguous differentiation and identification of the most frequently isolated Legionella species. These SuperSpectra were tested for their suitability to identify Legionella strains isolated from water samples, cooling towers, potting soils and patient specimens deposited at the Swiss National Reference Centre for Legionella and previously identified by molecular methods such as mip gene sequencing. 99.1% of the tested strains isolated from the environment could be correctly identified by comparison with the new SuperSpectra. The identification of Legionella spp. by MALDI-TOF MS is rapid, easy to perform and has the advantage of being time- and cost-saving, in comparison to sequence-based identification.

Item Type:	Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Legionella spp.; MALDI-TOF MS; mip; Identification; Sequencing; Taxonomy
Subjects:	Biological Sciences > Microbiology > Bacteriology Biological Sciences > Microbiology > Microbiology not elsewhere classified
Depositing User:	Mauro Tonolla
Date Deposited:	18 Jan 2016 08:37
Last Modified:	30 Aug 2016 12:26
URI:	http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/6894

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