Mass Spectrometry-Based Visualization of Molecules Associated with Human Habitats.

ABSTRACT: The cars we drive, the homes we live in, the restaurants we visit, and the laboratories and offices we work in are all a part of the modern human habitat. Remarkably, little is known about the diversity of chemicals present in these environments and to what degree molecules from our bodies influence the built environment that surrounds us and vice versa. We therefore set out to visualize the chemical diversity of five built human habitats together with their occupants, to provide a snapshot of the various molecules to which humans are exposed on a daily basis. The molecular inventory was obtained through untargeted liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis of samples from each human habitat and from the people that occupy those habitats. Mapping MS-derived data ont

SUBMITTER: Petras D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6326777 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature