抄録
Rapid identification and classification of bacteria by mass spectrometry (MS) have been expected to play important roles in various fields such as food industries, biomedical assays, and environmental analysis. In this review, the historical progress of various mass spectrometric approaches from pyrolysis-MS to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)-MS and their features are outlined. Then, the details of the development of bacterial analysis based on MALDI-MS are discussed. Among these, recent progress in MALDI-MS-based identification and classification of bacteria using ribosomal proteins as biomarkers is described in brief.
