Krister Karlsson

17.06.2005
Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacy, Åbo Akademi University, Turku

Liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry in distribution and bioaccumulation studies of toxic cyanopeptides

Reviewers:

Dr. Heli Sirén, VTT Processes, Helsinki

Dr. Andrey Mikhailov, Centre for Biotechnology, Turku

Opponent:

Dr. Ambrose Furey, Department of Chemistry, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland

Custos:

Professor Mark S. Johnson, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacy, Åbo Akademi University, Turku

Publications:

  1. Karlsson KM, Kankaanpää H, Huttunen M & Meriluoto J. (2005) First observation of microcystin-LR in pelagic cyanobacterial blooms in the northern Baltic Sea. Harmful Algae 4:163-166.
  2. Meriluoto J, Karlsson K & Spoof L. (2004) High-throughput screening of ten microcystins and nodularins, cyanobacterial peptide hepatotoxins, by reversed-phase liquid chromatography-electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry. Chromatographia 59: 291-298.
  3. Karlsson K, Sipiä V, Kankaanpää H & Meriluoto J. (2003) Mass spectrometric detection of nodularin and desmethylnodularin in mussels and flounders. Journal of Chromatography B 784:243-253.
  4. Sipiä, VO*, Karlsson KM*, Meriluoto JAO & Kankaanpää HT. (2004) Eiders (Somateria mollissima) obtain nodularin, a cyanobacterial hepatotoxin, in Baltic Sea food web. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 23: 1256-1260.
  5. Karlsson KM, Spoof LEM & Meriluoto JAO. (2005) Quantitative LC-ESI-MS analyses of microcystin and nodularin-R in animal tissue - Matrix effects and method validation. Environ, Toxicol. (accepted)

    * equal contribution to the work