Screening of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from liquid fungal cultures using ambient mass spectrometry.

ABSTRACT: The potential of fungi for use as biotechnological factories in the production of a range of valuable metabolites, such as enzymes, terpenes, and volatile aroma compounds, is high. Unlike other microorganisms, fungi mostly secrete secondary metabolites into the culture medium, allowing for easy extraction and analysis. To date, the most commonly used technique in the analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is gas chromatography, which is time and labour consuming. We propose an alternative ambient screening method that provides rapid chemical information for characterising the VOCs of filamentous fungi in liquid culture using a commercially available ambient dielectric barrier discharge ionisation (DBDI) source connected to a quadrupole-Orbitrap mass spectrometer. The effects of meth

SUBMITTER: Heffernan D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10329071 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature