Food authentication

8 workflows · 2007–2026

Food authentication: Telling species and processing apart in food, using peptide markers that survive cooking. 8 catalogued workflows and 9 papers.

Telling species and processing apart in food, using peptide markers that survive cooking.

Workflows 8
Papers 9
Authors 49
Active 2007-08-01 to 2026-07-16

Workflows (8)

  • Merlucciidae species-specific peptides (2007): Sequenced nucleoside diphosphate kinase B from hake and grenadier species de novo and identified species-specific peptides usable for fish authentication.
  • Parvalbumin allergen isoform sequencing (2010): Characterises new parvalbumin isoforms, the major fish allergens, by combining bottom-up proteomics, accurate intact mass by FTICR and selected MS/MS ion monitoring, with the sequences read de novo.
  • Coconut pollen allergen mining (2015): Mines novel allergens from coconut pollen, a significant respiratory sensitiser in India, by manual de novo sequencing combined with homology-driven proteomics.
  • Macadamia nut allergen identification (2022): Identifies vicilin, legumin and antimicrobial peptide 2a as macadamia nut allergens from IgE-binding bands by tandem MS with de novo sequencing.
  • Pheretima natural peptide authentication (2023): Combines proteogenomic databases with open and de novo search to characterise earthworm natural peptides and derive species marker peptides for traditional medicines.
  • Protein hydrolysate compositional profiling (2025): LC-HRMS/MS and chemometric profiling of soy, cotton, wheat, rice and meat hydrolysates, annotating short peptides by de novo sequencing plus homology search to differentiate batches and manufacturing processes.
  • Food inspection de novo peptide screening (2026): Database-free food inspection workflow: de novo sequencing of MS/MS spectra on a ZenoTOF 7600 for species identification and quantitation in food extracts, with database search as a complementary step, aimed at unknown contaminants and food fraud.
  • Processed meat species markers (2026): De novo peptide sequencing workflow combining FBDA peptide derivatization, dual-polarity DIA-MS, and SCX fractionation to discover species-specific markers (myosin, troponin) in highly processed pork, chicken and bovine meat products, enabling detection of adulteration down to 10 % species contamination.

Papers (9)

Sequencing tools these papers used

PEAKS, Protein Acrobat

Authors (49)

Andreas L. Lopata, Aya C. Taki, Benito Cañas, Bodhisattwa Saha, Carmen Piñeiro, Changliang Yao, Christian Radauer, Daisuke Nakajima, De-an Guo, Dongdong Huang, Gaurab Sircar, Heimo Breiteneder, Hiromasa Mitsui, Ivana Varenina, Jennifer Koplin, Jesús Vázquez, Jianqing Zhang, Jiayuan Li, Jingxian Zhang, José M. Gallardo, Karin Hummel, Kirsten Perrett, Kunal Pratap, Mario Cindrić, Merima Bublin, Michael Butler, Mihaela Pravica, Mónica Carrera, Naren Pandey, Nina Bilandžić, Osamu Ohara, Qirui Bi, Renata Biba, Ryo Konno, Sandip Kamath, Shen Ji, Stefan Kabasser, Swati Gupta Bhattacharya, Takeshi Shibata, Thanh Dang, Ushio Takeda, Wenlong Wei, Xiaoxiao Luo, Yongjing Xie, Yun Li, Yurong Wang, Yusei Okuda, Yusuke Kawashima, Zhenwei Li

Where the work happened

Australia, Austria, China, Croatia, Ireland, Japan, Spain

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