直接使用4-APEBA衍生物的亚格基微生物相互作用的天然碳产品的质谱成像

Dušan Veličković1, Kevin J Zemaitis1, Arunima Bhattacharjee1

  • 1Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.

mSystems
|December 8, 2023
PubMed
概括

这项研究引入了一种用于质谱成像的新型化学衍生方法,能够详细可视化微生物共同培养中的300多种代谢物. 这一突破增强了对生物膜中的微生物相互作用和代谢过程的理解.

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