Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.
Department of Animal Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.
Anal Chim Acta. 2020 Mar 1;1100:75-87. doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2019.11.014. Epub 2019 Nov 13.
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) using the ambient ionization technique enables a direct chemical investigation of biological samples with minimal sample pretreatment. However, detailed morphological information of the sample is often lost due to its limited spatial resolution. In this study, predictive high-resolution molecular imaging was produced by the fusion of ambient ionization MSI with optical microscopy of routine hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining. Specifically, desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) and nanospray desorption electrospray ionization (nanoDESI) mass spectrometry were employed to visualize lipid and protein species on mice tissue sections. The resulting molecular distributions obtained by ambient ionization MSI-microscopy fusion were verified with matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) MSI and immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining. Label-free molecular imaging with 5-μm spatial resolution can be acquired using DESI and nanoDESI, whereas the typical spatial resolution of ambient ionization MSI was ∼100 μm. In this regard, sharpened molecular histology of tissue sections was achieved, providing complementary references to the pathology. Such a multi-modal integration enables the discovery of potential tumor biomarkers. After image fusion, more than a dozen potential biomarkers on a metastatic mouse lung tissue section and Luminal B breast tumor tissue section were identified.
利用大气基质辅助激光解析电离(ambient ionization)技术的质谱成像(MSI)可实现对生物样本的直接化学分析,而无需进行复杂的样本预处理。然而,由于其空间分辨率有限,样本的详细形态信息通常会丢失。在这项研究中,通过将大气基质辅助激光解析电离质谱成像与常规苏木精和伊红(H&E)染色的光学显微镜相结合,实现了对高分辨率分子的预测成像。具体来说,采用解吸电喷雾电离(DESI)和纳米喷雾解吸电喷雾电离(nanoDESI)质谱法来可视化小鼠组织切片中的脂质和蛋白质种类。通过大气基质辅助激光解析电离质谱成像-显微镜融合获得的分子分布,经基质辅助激光解析电离飞行时间(MALDI-TOF)MSI 和免疫组织化学(IHC)染色得到验证。使用 DESI 和 nanoDESI 可获得具有 5 μm 空间分辨率的无标记分子成像,而大气基质辅助激光解析电离质谱成像的典型空间分辨率约为 100 μm。在这方面,实现了组织切片的锐化分子组织学,为病理学提供了补充参考。这种多模态集成能够发现潜在的肿瘤生物标志物。经过图像融合,在转移性小鼠肺组织切片和 Luminal B 型乳腺癌组织切片上鉴定出了十多种潜在的生物标志物。