“…Many classes of compounds have so far been analyzed by TLC with direct on-plate (MA)LDI-MS detection, including dyes (Gusev et al, 1995a), products of various organic reactions (St Hilaire et al, 1998), metal complexes (Matsumoto et al, 2002), siderophores from bacterial samples (Hayen & Volmer, 2005), pharmaceuticals and their impurities (Mowthorpe et al, 1999;Crecelius et al, 2002Crecelius, Clench, & Richards, 2004a;Salo et al, 2007), peptides (Gusev et al, 1995a;Mehl & Hercules, 2000), proteins (Gusev et al, 1995b;Bakry et al, 2007), nucleotides (Isbell et al, 1999), polymers (Matsumoto et al, 1999), as well as gangliosides (Ivleva et al, 2004(Ivleva et al, , 2005Dreisewerd et al, 2005), glycosphingolipids (GSLs) (Guittard, Hronowski, & Costello, 1999;Distler et al, 2008), LAB-ON-A-PLATE & phospholipids (Fuchs et al, 2007;Rohlfing et al, 2007), stem cell lipids (Fuchs et al, 2008), and bacterial toxins (Meisen et al, 2009). An example is shown in Figure 20.…”