Publications by authors named "Gesine Schmidt"

Wild lingonberries are a traditional source of food in the Nordic countries and an important contributor to economic activity of non-wood forest products in the region. Lingonberries are a rich source of bioactive compounds and can be a valuable contributor to a healthy diet. However, there are few studies available on how the bioactive compounds in lingonberries develop as they ripen.

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The frequency of foodborne outbreaks epidemiologically associated with Listeria monocytogenes in fresh produce has increased in recent years. Although L. monocytogenes may be transferred from the environment to vegetables during farming, contamination of food products most commonly occurs in food processing facilities, where L.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study evaluates the tool PredRet for predicting retention times (RTs) of plant food bioactive metabolites across various chromatographic systems (CSs) in untargeted metabolomics.
  • It involved a shared dataset of 467 compounds from 30 different families, and found that PredRet achieved a median prediction error ranging from 0.03 to 0.76 minutes, demonstrating high accuracy in external validation tests.
  • The results suggest that successful RT prediction is influenced by the type of liquid chromatography gradient and the number of compounds measured, while encouraging the metabolomics community to contribute RT data to enhance PredRet’s effectiveness as an open-access tool.
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Four new 3-alkyl pyridinium alkaloids, the viscosalines B(1) (1 a), B(2) (1 b), E(1) (2 a), and E(2) (2 b), were isolated from the Arctic sponge Haliclona viscosa. The structure elucidation of these isomeric compounds was challenging due to ambiguous fragments that derive during "standard" mass spectrometric fragmentation experiments. The final structure elucidation relied on the use of a combination of synthesis, liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry.

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The structure elucidation of the palau'amine congener tetrabromostyloguanidine (1), which used interproton distances from ROESY spectra as restraints in a computational approach, the so-called fc-rDG/DDD method, led to a revision of the relative configuration of palau'amine (2) and its congeners in 2007. The recent total synthesis of (±)-palau'amine (2) subsequently confirmed the computed structural revision of the relative configuration. In order to test a broader application range of the fc-rDG/DDD method, the present study investigated two additional dimeric pyrrole-imidazole alkaloids, axinellamine A (3) and 3,7-epi-massadine chloride (4).

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