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The results for bacterial whole-cell analysis described here establish the utility of MALDI-FTMS for mass spectral analysis of whole-cell bacteria and (potentially) more complex single-celled organisms. The use of MALDI-measured accurate mass values combined with mass defect plots is rapid, accurate, and simpler in sample preparation then conventional liquid chromatographic methods for bacterial lipid analysis. Intact cell MALDI-FTMS bacterial lipid characterization complements the use of proteomics profiling by mass spectrometry because it relies on accurate mass measurements of chemical species that are not subject to posttranslational modification or proteolytic degradation. 

Many of the exciting scientific theories of a hundred years ago originated with chemists such as Stoney, who postulated the existence of electrons, and those who formulated the periodic law of the elements. Van t Hoff, the father of stereochemistry, was also the first Nobel laureate. A chemist named van den Broek introduced the concept of atomic number, and another chemist named Harkins postulated the neutron and first mooted the idea of a mass defect as the origin of nuclear binding energy. Not only the chemists of the era but also the subject area of chemistry produced spectacular theoretical advances. The physicist Lord Rutherford, who is purported to have stated... 

A convention used to calculate the earth pressure on a pipe when estimating vertical defection is the prism load. The true load transmitted to a pipe from soil mass is subject to the stiffness of the soil and the pipe. The prism load may be deceiving when working with flexible plastic pipe. In reality, the load applied to such a pipe can be considerably less than the prism load might show. This is because the shear resistance transfers part of the soil load directly above the pipe into the trench side-walls and the embedment. This process is called arching. For an accurate assess-... 

As with all reactions, defect reactions are subject to the law of mass action [see Eq. (3.4) for more details), so an equilibrium constant, Kp, can be written ... 

Fig. 5.1.3 Sterol analysis in patients with defective cholesterol biosynthesis. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of trimethylsilyl derivatives of sterols extracted from primary skin fibroblasts of a control subject, a Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS) patient, and a Con-radi-Hunermann syndrome (CDPX2) patient, and lymphoblasts of a desmosterolosis patient cultured in lipoprotein-deficient medium reveals the accumulation of sterol intermediates indicative of a defect in cholesterol biosynthesis. Similar spectra can be obtained by sterol analysis of the plasma of such patients...

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