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Assessment of Blood Contamination in Biological Fluids Using MALDI-TOF MS

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Abstract

Biological fluid sample collection often includes the risk of blood contamination that may alter the proteomic profile of biological fluid. In proteomics studies, exclusion of contaminated samples is usually based on visual inspection and counting of red blood cells in the sample; analysis of specific blood derived proteins is less used. To fill the gap, we developed a fast and sensitive method for ascertainment of blood contamination in crude biological fluids, based on specific blood-derived protein, hemoglobin detection by MALDI-TOF MS. The MALDI-TOF MS based method allows detection of trace hemoglobin with the detection limit of 0.12 nM. UV-spectrometry, which was used as reference method, was found to be less sensitive. The main advantages of the presented method are that it is fast, effective, sensitive, requires very small sample amount and can be applied for detection of blood contamination in various biological fluids collected for proteomics studies. Method applicability was tested on human cerebrospinal and follicular fluid, which proteomes generally do not contain hemoglobin, however, which possess high risk for blood contamination. Present method successfully detected the blood contamination in 12 % of cerebrospinal fluid and 24 % of follicular fluid samples. High percentage of contaminated samples accentuates the need for initial inspection of proteomic samples to avoid incorrect results from blood proteome overlap.

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Abbreviations

CSF:

Cerebrospinal fluid

FF:

Follicular fluid

Hb:

Hemoglobin

RBC:

Red blood cell

MALDI-TOF MS:

Matrix assisted laser desorption ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry

UV-Vis:

Ultraviolet visible spectrometry

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the patients for their enrollment in the study and to clinicians from the West-Tallinn Central Hospital Neurological Department (Dr. Katrin Gross-Paju) and the Nova Vita Clinic (Agne Velthut-Meikas). The authors also owe their gratitude to Dr. Jüri Laasik for his guidance on biological sample collection. This work was supported by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research [Grant IUT19-8 (P.P) and IUT34-16 (A.S)], Estonian Science Foundation Grants 8811 (P. P.) and 8385 (T. K.), scholarships from SA Archimedes and World Federation of Scientists (K. L.) and by Enterprise Estonia, Grant No. EU30020.

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  1. Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia st 15, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia

    Katrina Laks, Tiina Kirsipuu, Tuuli Dmitrijeva & Peep Palumaa

  2. Competence Centre on Health Technologies, Tiigi 61b, 50410, Tartu, Estonia

    Katrina Laks, Tiina Kirsipuu, Andres Salumets & Peep Palumaa

  3. Institute of Bio- and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, 50411, Tartu, Estonia

    Andres Salumets

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Laks, K., Kirsipuu, T., Dmitrijeva, T. et al. Assessment of Blood Contamination in Biological Fluids Using MALDI-TOF MS. Protein J 35, 171–176 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10930-016-9657-y

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